Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)

The purpose of this paper is to describe the computational algorithmic generation of the high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns). At the beginning, the formal model for generation of the digital halftones, the so-called grey pattern problem (GPP) is introduced. Then, the heuristic algo...

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Main Authors: Alfonsas Misevičius, Jonas Blonskis, Vytautas Bukšnaitis, Evelina Stanevičienė, Tautvydas Želvys
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Klaipėda University 2013-09-01
Series:Computational Science and Techniques
Online Access:http://journals.ku.lt/index.php/CST/article/view/81
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author Alfonsas Misevičius
Jonas Blonskis
Vytautas Bukšnaitis
Evelina Stanevičienė
Tautvydas Želvys
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description The purpose of this paper is to describe the computational algorithmic generation of the high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns). At the beginning, the formal model for generation of the digital halftones, the so-called grey pattern problem (GPP) is introduced. Then, the heuristic algorithm for the solution, in particular, of the grey pattern problem is discussed. Although the algorithm employed does not guarantee the optimality of the solutions found, still superior-quality, near-optimal (and in some cases probably optimal) solutions can be achieved within reasonable computation time. Further, we provide the results of the extensive computational experiments with the newly proposed, extra-large size instance (data set) of the GPP — which is the main contribution of this work. As a confirmation of the quality of the solutions produced, we also give the visual representations of several fine-looking halftone patterns and the reader can judge about the perfection of the images obtained.<br />
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spelling doaj.art-bd2e494b46a645f19cfb3f49dbce70872022-12-21T22:46:00ZengKlaipėda UniversityComputational Science and Techniques2029-99662013-09-011213614010.15181/csat.v1i2.8192Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)Alfonsas Misevičius0Jonas BlonskisVytautas BukšnaitisEvelina StanevičienėTautvydas ŽelvysKaunas University of TechnologyThe purpose of this paper is to describe the computational algorithmic generation of the high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns). At the beginning, the formal model for generation of the digital halftones, the so-called grey pattern problem (GPP) is introduced. Then, the heuristic algorithm for the solution, in particular, of the grey pattern problem is discussed. Although the algorithm employed does not guarantee the optimality of the solutions found, still superior-quality, near-optimal (and in some cases probably optimal) solutions can be achieved within reasonable computation time. Further, we provide the results of the extensive computational experiments with the newly proposed, extra-large size instance (data set) of the GPP — which is the main contribution of this work. As a confirmation of the quality of the solutions produced, we also give the visual representations of several fine-looking halftone patterns and the reader can judge about the perfection of the images obtained.<br />http://journals.ku.lt/index.php/CST/article/view/81
spellingShingle Alfonsas Misevičius
Jonas Blonskis
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Evelina Stanevičienė
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Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)
Computational Science and Techniques
title Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)
title_full Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)
title_fullStr Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)
title_full_unstemmed Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)
title_short Computational generation of high-quality digital halftones (grey/colour patterns)
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