Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained

647K views · 1 year ago · explainer · intermediate · evergreen

Rune Skovbo Johansen, an indie game developer and procedural generation enthusiast, explains surface-stable fractal dithering. It is a technique for dithering 3D scenes so the dither pattern sticks to surfaces and stays consistent at different distances.

HN people suggest it in any thread on dithering as the deepest and clearest look at making dithered 3D graphics stable.

“yesterday I stumbled across a 4-days old video related to dithering which is really worth watching”

24 comments from Hacker News

m
@m12k2026 · in “Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game”
If you find this interesting, you might also be interested in this video of someone diving even deeper into how to make the dither surface stable: ▶ this video
RecommendsView on HN
r
@romes2026 · in “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN
i
@itsgabriel2025 · in “Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket”
You may also enjoy Surface Stable Dithering: ▶ this video
RecommendsView on HN
q
@qwertox2025 · in “Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket”
Somewhat related and worth watching: Surface-stable fractal dithering explained ▶ this video There's a follow-up video to that one.
RecommendsView on HN
q
@qwertox2025 · in “Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)”
On a similar note, yesterday I stumbled across a 4-days old video related to dithering which is really worth watching. "Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering" [0] by "Rune Skovbo Johansen, indie game developer and procedural generation enthusiast" [0] ▶ this video
RecommendsView on HN
c
@cubefox2025 · in “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN
s
@skibz2025 · in “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN
K
@Klaster_12025 · in “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN
q
@qwertox2025 · in “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN
s
@sebsebmc2025 · in “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN
h
@hlove2025 · in “Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN
b
@bawolff2025 · in “Surface-stable fractal dithering [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
RecommendsView on HN