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I Encounter Halftones Everywhere!

Technically speaking, halftone screens are "tessallations" - patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape, without gaps or overlapping. And since tessallations are pop decorative items - I terminate upwards seeing halftone screens everywhere. Here are a few from a recent trip to Seattle.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 classic Diamond halftone dot
 patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
An illustration of a high lpi traditional Square dot halftone
 patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
In contrast to a real depression lpi Square dot
 patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
Waiting to cross the street I location a mix of 2 halftone patterns patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
At outset it appears to live a classic Round dot mixed amongst a to a greater extent than subtle Square dot halftone patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
But on closer exam it seems to live an exotic version of Esko's Concentric screening. Interestingly the pixels that brand upwards this sidewalk halftone are circular instead of the traditional foursquare shape.
 patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
Walking past times this edifice reveals a fine illustration of patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
Second guild FM/stochastic screening. patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
Sometimes the lastly halftone enshroud is non visible, simply instead, y'all tin post away come across the foundation for the halftone. Halftone enshroud dots are formed past times a "threshold" array - basically a designing made upwards of 256 shades of greyness which determines which pixels are turned on to shape the actual dot.
The tones of the granite pillar on this building
 patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
Make a bully threshold array to work a patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!
Mezzotint halftone (the correct one-half of the photograph below - click to enlarge)
 patterns that encompass a surface past times the repeated role of a unmarried shape I come across halftones everywhere!

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