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Artistic Screening
Victor Ostromoukhov, Roger D. Hersch
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland
Abstract
Artistic screening is a new image reproduction technique incorpo-
ratingfreelycreatedartistic screenelements forgenerating halftones.
Fixed predefined dot contours associated with given intensity lev-
els determine the screen dot shape's growing behavior. Screen dot
contours associated with each intensity level are obtained by inter-
polation between the fixed predefined dot contours. A user-defined
mapping transforms screen elements from screen element definition
space to screen element rendition space. This mapping can be tuned
to produce various effects such as dilatations, contractions and non-
linear deformations of the screen element grid. Discrete screen
elements associated with all desired intensity levels are obtained by
rasterizing the interpolated screen dot shapes in the screen element
rendition space. Since both the image to be reproduced and the
screen shapes can be designed independently, the design freedom
offered to artists is very great. The interaction between the image to
be reproduced and the screen shapes enables the creation of graphic
designs of high artistic quality. Artistic screening is particularly
well suited for the reproduction of images on large posters. When
looked at from a short distance, the poster's screening layer may
deliver its own message. Furthermore, thanks to artistic screen-
ing, both full size and microscopic letters can be incorporated into
the image reproduction process. In order to avoid counterfeiting,
banknotes may comprise grayscale images with intensity levels
produced by microletters of varying size and shape.
Keywords
Image reproduction, graphic design, halftoning, artistic screening,
microlettering
1 Introduction
Halftoning and screening techniques are aimed at giving the impres-
sion of variable intensity levels by varying the respective surfaces
of white and black within a small area. Traditional techniques use
repetitive screen elements, which pave the plane and within which
screen dot surfaces define either white or black parts [17]. As long
as the screen element period is small, or equivalently, the screen
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Figure 1: Escher's Sky and Water woodcut (reproduced with per-
mission, ©1995 M.C. Escher, Cordon Art, Baarn, Holland).
frequency is high (for example 150 screen elements per inch), dis-
tinct screen elements cannot be perceived by the human eye from a
normal viewing distance [11]. However, in order to achieve such
high screen frequencies, resolutions above 2400 dpi are required.
With office printers, respectively photocomposers, having resolu-
tions between 240 and 800 dpi, respectively between 1200 and 2400
dpi, halftoning or screening effects cannot be completely hidden.
This explains why so much effort has been invested in develop-
ing halftoning techniques which reduce the impact of halftoning
artifacts as much as possible [7].
Wewould like to take a different approach. Instead of looking at
the halftoning layer as a pure functional layer producing undesired
artifacts, we propose a new screening technique which enables the
shape of screen dots to be tuned. By creating artistic screens which
may take any desired shape, screening effects, which up to now
were considered to be undesirable, are tuned to convey additional
information for artistic purposes.
The approach we follow is somewhat related to the pen and
ink illustration techniques where pen strokes are used for sketching
illustrations, at the same time creating texture and intensities. While
computer-aidedpen andinkillustration systems[18] aim tooffer the
same flexibility astraditional pen-based stroking, artisticscreening,
as presented in this contribution, is a new computer-based image
reproduction technique, which opens a new design space for artistic
realizations.
For artistic screening, we extend the dynamics of screen dot
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Figure2: Mosaic tilework faces walls surrounding the courtyard of
the Attarine Medeza, Fez (Courtesy of R. and S. Michaud, Rapho).
shapes by using more sophisticated artistic shapes as screen dots.
We would like to have full control over the evolution of the artistic
screen dot shape and at the same time offer a halftoning method
which is competitive with regard to conventional high-resolution
clustered-dot screening. We have sought our inspiration in the
work of medieval artists [1], who after having tiled the plane with
repetitive polygonal patterns, created beautiful ornaments in each
of the separate tiles (Fig. 2). Escher [12] further developed this
technique by letting shapes circumscribed by a regular tile smoothly
grow into one another (Fig. 1). The present work is also related
to the decorative motives found in Islamic art which incorporate
beautiful calligraphic work with letter shapes well-distributed over
a given geometric surface (Fig. 3).
Previous attempts to develop screen dots having non-standard
shapes were aimed at improving the tone reproduction behavior at
mid-tones [9]. Elliptic screen dots for example, have an improved
tone reproduction behavior due to the fact that at the transition
between 45% and55% intensity, at firstonly two neighbouring dots
touch each other and only after a certain increase of intensity does
the screen dot touch all its four neighbours (Fig.4).
State of the art techniques for generating screen dot shapes are
based on dither threshold arrays which determine the dot growing
behavior. Since the dither threshold levels associated with the
dither cells of a dither threshold array specify at which intensity the
corresponding binary screen element pixels are to be turned on, the
so generated screen dot shapes have the property of overlapping
one another.
In order to generate screen dots of any shape, which need not
overlap one another and which may have self-intersecting contours,
we propose a new way of synthesizing screen dot shapes. We define
the evolution of screen dot contours over the entire intensity range
by interpolating over a set of predefined fixed dot contours which
define the screen dot shape at a set of fixed intensity levels. Once
the evolving shape of the halftone dot boundary is defined exactly
for every discrete intensity level, the screen elements associated
with each intensity level are rasterized by filling their associated
screen dot contours (Section 3).
After having generated the screen elements, digital screening
proceeds with the halftoning process described in more detail in
Section 2. This halftoning process distinguishes itself from previ-
ous halftoning methods described in the literature [7] by the fact
that the screen elements associated with every intensity level are
precomputed and that no comparisons between original gray levels
and dither threshold levels are necessary at image generation time.
Furthermore, it ensures smooth transitions of the artistic halftone
pattern in regions of high intensity gradients by applying bi-linear
Figure3: Thoulthi classicalcalligraphyby MajedAl Zouhdi (Cour-
tesy of H. Massoudy, [8]).
interpolation between source image pixels.
The results obtained with artistic screening (Section 5) demon-
strate that contour-based generation of halftone screens effectively
provides a new layer of information. We show how this layer of
information can be used to convey artistic and cultural elements
related to the content of the reproduced images. Since there is no
limitation to the size of the halftone screen elements, they can be
made as large as the image itself. The introduced mapping (Sec-
tion 4) between screen element definition space and screen element
rendition space enables the production of highly desirable, smooth
deformations of screen dots, without affecting the image content. In
addition totheir nicevisual properties, geometrictransformations of
screen element shapes are of high interest for creating microscopic
letters for security purposes, for example on banknotes.
Since artistic screening relies on the evolution of dot shapes at
continuous intensity levels and since it allows building large screens
(superscreens) containing arrays of screen subshapes, it is also able
to produce traditional halftone screen dots having those frequencies
and orientations which are required for traditional colour reproduc-
tion. Artistic screening may therefore also be used at high resolu-
tion as an alternative to current exact-angle clustered-dot screening
techniques [2].
2 The halftoning process
Classical clustered-dot halftoning techniques rely on ordered dither
threshold arrays. A dither threshold array is conceived as a discrete
tile paving the output pixel plane. A dither threshold level is asso-
ciated with each elementary cell of the dither threshold array. The
succession of dither threshold levels specifies the dot shape growing
Figure 4: Traditional screen dot shapes, above with round and
below with elliptic screen dots, produced by the artistic screening
software package.
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y
x
-1
1
0
-1
0420 27 31 18 10 3
11 15 36 44 40 35 14 7
19 32 48 52 56 51 39 23
28 41 57 61 60 55 47 26
24 45 53 62 63 59 43 30
21 37 49 58 54 50 34 17
512 33 42 46 38 13 9
1816 29 25 22 62
0420 27 31 18 10 3
11 15 36 44 40 35 14 7
19 32 48 52 56 51 39 23
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24 45 53 62 63 59 43 30
21 37 49 58 54 50 34 17
512 33 42 46 38 13 9
1816 29 25 22 62
39
64 40
64
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 5: Spot function, dither matrix, and corresponding screen dot shapes.
Two fixed predefined contours Interpolated contours Discretized screen element
(a)
(b)
Figure 6: Artistic screening with a screen dot pattern inspired by Escher reproduced on an image representing a grayscale wedge.
behavior at increasing intensity levels (see Fig. 5). Dither thresh-
old levels can either be specified manually or algorithmically [17].
Previous algorithmic approaches for generating discrete dither ar-
↓↓↓↓↓↓
input image pixel boundaries
↓↓↓↓↓↓
input image pixel boundaries
Figure 7: Effect of rapid intensity transitions on (a) standard
clustered-dot screen elements and (b) artistic screen elements (en-
larged).
(a)
(b)
rays are based on spot functions [2]. A spot function z = S(x, y)
defines the dither threshold levels for a dither element tile defined
in a normalized coordinate space (-1 ≤ x, y < 1).
↓↓↓↓↓↓
input image pixel boundaries
↓↓↓↓↓↓
input image pixel boundaries
Figure 8: Rapid intensity transitions smoothed out by bi-linear
interpolation of source image pixels at halftoning time on (a) stan-
dard clustered-dot screen elements and (b) artistic screen elements
(enlarged).
S(x, y) < z ≤
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a) fixed predefined contours
b) scaled fixed predefined contours
d) interpolation parameters
κ
0
(z
0
)κ
1
(z
1
)κ
2
(z
2
)κ
3
(z
3
)
= 0% = 25% = 50% = 75%
z
4
= 100%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
8.3% 16.7% 33.3% 41.7% 58.3% 66.7% 83.3% 91.7%
Figure 9: Simple dot shape obtained by blending between a set of fixed contours.
By discretizing this spot function, i.e, by computing its eleva-
tion at the coordinates of the centers of individual screen cells, and
by numbering successive intersection points according to their ele-
vations (Fig. 5b), one obtains the dither threshold array used for the
halftoning process. The comparisons between given source image
pixel intensity levels
z
and dither threshold levels determine the
surface of a screen dot. For example, the dot shape associated with
an input intensitylevel of 40/ 64 is obtainedby activating all screen
element pixels with threshold values 40 or greater (Fig. 5c).
With a given dither threshold array, the classical halftoning
process consists of scanning the output bitmap, for each output
pixel, finding its corresponding locations both in the dither array
and in the grayscale input image, comparing corresponding input
image pixel intensity values to dither array threshold levels and
accordingly writing pixels of one of two possible ouput intensity
levels to the output image bitmap.
Since artistic screening is not based on dither matrices, we pre-
compute the screen elements (halftone patterns) representing each
of the considered intensity levels. The halftoning process associ-
ated with artistic screening consists of scanning the output bitmap,
and foreach binary output pixel, findingits corresponding locations
both in the grayscale input image and in the screen element tile. The
input image intensity value determines which of the precomputed
screen elements is to be accessed in order to copy its bit value into
the current output bitmap location (Fig. 6a). This process may be
accelerated by executing the same operations with several binary
output pixels at a time [10].
In standard clustered-dot screening, due to the comparison be-
tween source pixel intensity values and dither threshold values,
rapid transitions within a single halftone screen element are pos-
sible (Fig. 7a). They ensure that rapid intensity transitions occur-
ring in the original image are preserved in the halftoned image.
With artistic screen elements however, rapid transitions may in-
troduce unacceptable distortions in the screen dot shape (Fig. 7b).
Smoother transitions are obtained by computing for each output
bitmap pixel the corresponding interpolated gray intensity value at
the corresponding location in the source image pixmap (bi-linear in-
terpolation). Smoother intensity variations will be associated with
output bitmap neighbourhoods, which will in turn smooth out the
transitions within single artistic screen elements (Fig. 8). If the
original image is scanned at high resolution (300 dpi and higher),
undesired sharp intensity transitions may be avoided by applying
to it a low-pass filter. There is a trade-off between the continuity
of the halftone dot shapes and the faithful reproduction of sharp
transitions.
3 Contour-based generation of discrete screen el-
ements
Spot functions
S(x, y)
generating simple screen dot shapes can be
described easily. More complicated spot functions for generating
shapes such as the dot shapes described in Fig. 6 are impossible to
generate, since they cannot be described as single valued functions.
In order to generate complicated dot shapes capable of repre-
senting known subjects (birds, fishes) or objects (letter shapes), we
define the evolving screen dot shape by a description of its contours.
For this purpose, weintroduce fixed predefined screen dot contours
which are associated with specific intensity levels. Shape blending
techniques [15] are used to interpolate between those predefined
screen dot contours at all other intensity levels.
The fixed predefined contours, defined in a screen element def-
c) interpolated contours
z
3
z
2
z
1
z
0
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Figure 11: Screen tile containing subscreen shapes made of individual characters, at different intensity levels.
inition space, are designed by a graphist using a shape drafting
software package such as Adobe Illustrator. The graphist defines
his contours in the screen element definition coordinate space of
his preference. Figure 9a shows a set of fixed predefined contours
defining the evolution of a screen dot shape.
For ease of implementation, we assume that each fixed contour
has the same number of distinct contour parts and that the contour
parts of the interpolated contours are obtained by blending between
corresponding fixed contour parts. Curved contour parts may be
described by polynomial splines. For convenience, we use a cubic
Bézier spline given by its control polygon to define each curved
contour part. In order to simplify the interpolation process, we
also assume that each straight line contour part is also defined by
Bézier control polygon having its vertices aligned on the given
straight line segment. The arrangement of contour parts in each
of the fixed predefined contours governs the interpolation process
(Fig. 9).
dx
dy
(a)
Screen element Screen element
definition space rendition space
(b)
Figure 10: Transformation between screen element definition and
rendition space (a) applied to a small screen tile and (b) applied
to a large screen tile (super screen) made of repetitive subscreen
elements.
In order to control the speed at which the interpolated contour
parts move from one fixed contour to the next, we introduce inter-
polation parameters κ
i
(z)varying between 0 and 1 (Fig. 9d). The
coordinates of a control point at intensity zinterpolated between
two fixed contour control points and associated with the
extremities of intensity range [z
i
, z
i+1
] is given by
(1)
where represents the screen element origin.
Parameters κ
i
(z) are mapped to the range of intensity levels
[z
i
, z
i+1
] by interactivelydefining the curves κ
i
(z) in the same way
as gamma correction curves are defined in well known grayscale
halftoning packages (Adobe Photoshop for example). Figure 9
shows the full intensity range, fixed predefined and intermediate
contours as well as their associated interpolation parameters.
In the range between intensity level z
0
= 0 and intensity level
z
1
associated with the first fixed contour, the only operation which
takes place is scaling. Wetherefore assume that the contour at level
z
0
is a fixed contour of infinitely small size and that it has the same
number of control points as the one at level z
1
.
The tone reproduction behavior of a given printing process de-
pends heavily on the dot gain, i.e. to what extent the printed dot
has a larger surface than expected due to printer toner or ink spread
properties. For a given printing process, the tone reproduction be-
havior depends on the shape of the printed dot. When increasing
the darkness (or, equivalently, decreasing the intensity) at light and
mid-tones, the relative printed surface increase is larger for dots
having a higher contour to surface ratio. Since the fixed contours
defining the artistic screen dot shape may have any contour to sur-
face ratio, the surface growth of the printed dot for a given intensity
difference may vary considerably at different intensity levels. We
can therefore use interpolation parameters κ
i
(z)as local gamma
correction factors [4].
If the created screen element is required to have a similarshape
growing behavior in the light and in the dark tones, one may first
design the fixedscreen dot contoursin the lighttones and thenin the
dark tones. Taking into account the plane tiling behavior of a single
screen element, the fixed contours associated with intensity levels,
z ≤ 0.5 are drawn at a location whose center is translated by half
a period in each direction from the original screen element center.
The fixed contour parts located on the three quadrants outside the
original screen element boundary are copied back into the original
screen element (see Fig. 9a, 50% intensity).
A single fixed contour associated with an intensity level equal
to or close to z = 0.5 delimits the white growing region and the
black growing region.
Onceall fixed contourshave beendesigned inthe screenelement
definition space, and the table of blending parameters is initalized
P
P(z) -
P
i
P
0
= (1 - κ
i
(z)) (P
i
-P
0
) + κ
i
(z)
P
i+1
(P
i+1
-P
0
)
P
0
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a) b) c)
-2 -1 1 2
-1.5
-1
-0.5
0.5
1
1.5
-1 -0.5 0.5 1
-1
-0.5
0.5
1
Figure 12: Non-linear mapping between screen definition and screen rendition plane.
with values κ
i
(z), one merely needs to define the corresponding
screen element boundaries in the screen element rendition space,
e.g. in the space associated with the output bitmap. The transfor-
mation between screen element definition space and screen element
rendition space enables the fixed predefined screen dot contours to
be defined independently of the orientation and size of the final
screen elements (Fig. 10). This transformation provides the basis
both for screen element morphing (see Section 4) and for the gen-
eration of screen elements having exact screen angles, as required
by traditional colour reproduction techniques [19].
A square screen element defined by its supporting cathets
and (Fig. 10b) whose desired orientation is given by angle can
be approximatedby anangle α' = arctan
( )
as closely as required
by increasing integer values dx and dy . The screen element's sub-
division into a certain number of replicated subscreen dot shapes
defines its screen frequency. In the screen element definition space,
all subscreen dot shapes are identical. In the screen element ren-
dition space however, rasterized discrete subscreen elements differ
slightly one from another due to the different phase locations of
their respective continuous contours (Fig. 10b). At high resolution,
the so obtained exact angle screen elements are equivalent to the
super-screening methods known in the field of colour reproduction
[2], [13]. They have the advantage of offering the potential for
colour reproduction with specifically designed screen shapes.
Once the fixed predefined contour parts have been transformed
from screen element definition to rendition space, the discrete
screen elements may be generated for each discrete intensity level.
For reproducing 256 intensity levels, the intensity interval be-
tween z = 0 and z = 1 is divided by 255 and intermediate
screen dot contours are successively generated at intensity levels
z = 0, z = 1 / 255, …, z = 255 / 255. At each discrete intensity, the
screen dot contours are rasterized by applying well known shape
rasterization techniques [4]. In the case of self-intersecting dot
contours or dot contours having at a single intensity level multiple
intersecting contours, care must be taken to use a scan-conversion
and filling algorithm supporting the non-zero winding number rule
andgenerating non-overlapping complementarydiscreteshapes[5].
Furthermore, the fillingalgorithm mustbe able to fillshapes becom-
ing smaller and smaller until they disappear [6]. Figure 6 shows the
result with an artistic screen dot shape inspired by Escher's drawing
(Fig. 1a), reproduced on a grayscale wedge. Small details, such as
the wings of the bird, progressively fade out as the bird's shape size
decreases.
4 Screen Morphing
Sincescreen tiles canbe aslarge asdesired, theycan beconceived so
as to cover either the whole or a significant part of the surface of the
destination halftoned image. Such large screen tiles aredivided into
elementary subscreen shapes which may contain either identical or
different shapes. For microlettering applications, each elementary
subscreen shape may contain a different letter shape (Fig.11).
By defining the mapping from screen element definition space
to screen element rendition space as a non-linear transformation,
smooth, highly esthetic spatial variations of the subscreen shapes
can be attained. For example, conformal mappings [14] [3] trans-
form a rectangular grid of screen element sub-shapes into the sub-
shapes of a deformed grid following electro-magnetic field lines
(Fig. 12a). In that example, the conformal mapping is w =
k(1 + z + e
z
), where k is a real scaling factor, z represents complex
points z = x + iy lying in theoriginal (x, y) plane and w = u + iv
the corresponding complex points lying in the destination (u, v)
plane.
Alternatively, if one would like to enlarge a few screen sub-
shapes at the expense of their surrounding subshapes, one may
define a circle of unit radius within which a geometric transforma-
tion maps the original rectangular grid into a highly deformed grid
(Fig. 12b). A possible transformation is one thatkeeps the angle and
modifies the distance of points from the center of the circle (fisheye
transformation). With the center of the circle as the origin of the
coordinate system, the mapping expressed in polar coordinates is
the following:
θ' = θ;
1 - r
1 +
m *
if r < 1
otherwise (2)
where mis a magnifying factor.
dy
dx
r' = r
{
r
1 - r
r
m *
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Figure 13: View of the Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo (Courtesy of R. and S. Michaud, Rapho).
5 High-quality artistic screening
In high-quality graphic applications, the shapes of artistic screen
dots may be used as a vector for conveying additional information.
This new layer of information may incorporate shapes which are
related to the image. When reproduced in poster form, the screen
elements of the screening layer will become sufficiently large to
produce the desired visual effect.
In Figure 13, we show an example of a mosque rendered by
screen dots made of calligraphic arabic letter shapes and oriental
polygonal patterns. This screening layer adds a touch of islamic
culture to the reproduced image.
The next example (Fig. 14) shows a poster displaying a scene
inspired from the well-known Kabuki theater shows. Such a poster
could be used for example to advertise a Kabuki theatre perfor-
mance. The beautiful Kanji letter shapes can be seen close up
whereas the full poster can only be perceived from a certain view-
ing distance. These two different views complement one another
and each contributes towards transmitting the message to the public.
In the last example, we show that artistic screening can bring
new solutions for avoiding desktop counterfeiting [16]. Since
1990, the US treasury protects banknotes by using microprinting
techniques for generating letters having a size of approximatively
150 µm in order to avoid reproduction by photocopy or scanners
(Fig. 15). In Figure 16, we show that by using artistic screen-
ing techniques, microletters of the type shown in Figure 11 can
be incorporated into the grayscale image. Furthermore, due to the
conformal mapping function w = tg(z) between screen element
definition and rendition spaces (Fig. 12c), a non-repetitive screen
is created which cannot be scanned easily without producing Moiré
effects.
6 Conclusions
We have presented a new halftoning technique, where screen ele-
ments are composed of artistic screen dot shapes, themselves cre-
ated by skilled graphists. Fixed predefined dot contours associated
with given intensity levels determine the screen dot shape's grow-
ing behavior. Screen dot contours associated with each intensity
level are obtained by interpolation between the fixed predefined
dot contours. User-defined mappings transform screen elements
from screen element definition space to screen element rendition
space. These mappings can be tuned to produce various effects
such as dilations, contractions and non-linear deformations of the
subscreen element grid. By choosing an appropriate mapping, im-
ages can be rendered while ensuring a highly esthetic behavior of
their screening layer.
Since artistic screening uses precomputed screen elements, its
performance at image halftoning time is similar to that of other
dithering algorithms. The time required for precomputing the
screen elements associated with every intensity level depends on
the size of the screen element tile. Limited size repetitive screen
elements such as those used in Figures 13 and 14 can be gener-
ated quickly (few minutes). On the other hand, very large screen
elements morphed over the output image may require considerable
computing power and time. Therefore, libraries of precomputed
screen elements should be created. With such libraries, artistic
screening can be made nearly as efficient as conventional halfton-
ing.Artistic screening can be seen as a new image reproduction
technique incorporating freely created artistic screen elements used
for generating halftones. Since both the image to be reproduced
and the screen shapes can be designed independently, the design
freedom offered to artists is very great. In the examples of sections
4 and 5, we have shown that one may reproduce simple images with
complicated screen elements morphed over the destination halftone
image, real images with beautiful but repetitive screen shapes or
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Figure 14: Kabuki actor, by Toshusai Sharaku. Scene inspired from the Japanese Kabuki theater. The word Kabuki,
shin-ka-bu-ki, is used for creating the Kanji screen dot shape (Courtesy of the British Museum).
real images with complicated and morphed screen shapes.
Artistic screening enables both full size and microscopic letters
to be incorporated into the image reproduction process. For exam-
ple, next-generation banknotes may incorporate grayscale images
with intensity levels produced by microletters of varying size and
shape.
Currently, artisticscreening is made possible by creating screen
shapes with existing shape outlining tools and feeding them as input
to the artistic screening software package. In the near future, we
intend to add specific screen shape creation and morphing tools
in order to simplify the design of the fixed predefined screen dot
contours and the specification of the transformation between screen
element definition and screen element rendition space.
Thanks to these novel computer-based screening techniques,
artistic screening may become an important graphic design tool. It
may have a considerable impact on future graphic designs.
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Figure 15: Microletters on current ten dollar notes.
7 Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Nicolas Rudaz for having developed the
QuickTime animation illustrating the basic concepts of Artistic
Screening (see SIGGRAPH'95 Proceedings on CD-ROM). We are
grateful to H. Massoudy, Bella O.,the British Museum, Rapho Press
Agency, Paris and Cordon Art, Baarn, Holland for having kindly
accepted to give us the permission to reproduce their originals.
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