E-Man's Sprite R & D

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That raises an interesting question: is it considered banding if the lines are different widths? Or only if they're all the same width?

Ah, and here I give my answer...Parallel dithering!



Here I removed the banding on the flag by straighening out the lines, adding in a bit of anti-aliasing as a little personal touch. It arguably looks a bit more artificial but faaar cleaner and easier to draw. A nice trade-off, in my opinion. I also added in some exaggerated parallel dithering. To parallel dither, you simply add in parallel lines of different thicknesses and layer them to create a smooth gradient. In my book, I wouldn't consider it banding. Here's another extreme example I fished up while looking through 2-color art on PixelJoint: http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/33541.htm