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Screens as in physical filters.

It's a paper printing semi-analogue process to solve the problem (not enough colors, need to simulate colors spatially) that that semi-digital electronic screens use dithering for.

It's dual to "anti-aliasing", where we use an abundance of colors to simulate missing spatial resolution.




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