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halftone

[haf-tohn] / ˈhæfˌtoʊn /


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By carefully designing the halftone patterns, they encoded the Mona Lisa image into flat films that later transformed into three-dimensional forms.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026

TJ: I’ve been using the halftone line to transform my mother’s images and cause them to intersect and intertwine with my images of moments that I’ve had since coming out of isolation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

She covers these turbid, hot-colored grounds with those deft black lines and smudges, plus airbrushed spumes of white or red, and also multicolored halftone dots that form a bridge between image and information.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

A crucial contrast to Jackson’s over-manipulations is seen in some footage of contemporaneous newspaper photographs, shown in extreme closeup, with their halftone dots rivalling the image itself in prominence.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2019

The plants from which the halftone was made were collected near Sandusky and photographed by Dr. Kellerman.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha