The Rat's Nest

About Dithering

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In my previous post, I quickly when over how I converted images to use with a 6 color screen with dithering, but didn’t get into the details. Now, I want to look deeper into this technique, understand what is dithering and compare different techniques.

This post is accompanied by some python code that I use to experiment, you can find the full repo on Codeberg.

Displaying an image with only a few colors

Before speaking about image dithering, we have to speak about image quantization. In general terms, quantization is the process of mapping values form a large or continuous set of possible values to a reduced one.

Building an e-paper Digital Frame

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:07:24 +0200

As a furry, we tend to accumulate a lot of digital art without a way to display them. A few can be printed, but wall real-estate is still limited. To work around this issue, I wanted to have a digital photo frame. Also, as an ebook reader, I quite like the look of e-paper displays, so I started looking for a color, e-paper digital frame. After all, the technology is now years old, and a digital frame seems like a great application color e-paper.

Opening the Rats Nest

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:26:36 +0200

Welcome to the Rat’s Nest, my furry theme blog! I’m Jupotter, a nerd with a passion for software design, many incomplete projects, and the will to write about them.

Art: The Orthrus

In the time of ever-more controlling social media, algorithmic timelines and AI-generated slop, I wish to add some more hand-crafted and self hosted content to the world wide web. I am encouraged by so many awesome bloggers, with a special shout out to Soatok’s the World Needs More Furry Bloggers for giving me the last push needed to start it.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

About me

Hi, I’m Jupotter. I am a furry, non-binary, a software engineer, and generally a geek.
My fursona is a rat/dragon hybrid, and my pronouns are they/them.

About the Rat’s Nest

This is my small place of the world wide web, where I can write about my projects, my interests, and other things.

Expect to find software development, technology discussions, role playing games, and other stuff that pique my interest