Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts III
DOI: 10.1117/12.298300
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The Blue Noise Mask (BNM) is a halftone screen that produces unstructured visually pleasing dot patterns. The BNM combines the blue-noise characteristics of error diffusion and the simplicity of ordered dither. A BNM is constructed by designing a set of interdependent binary patterns for individual gray levels. In this paper, we investigate the quality issues in blue-noise binary pattern design and mask generation as well as in application to color reproduction.