Someone on X recently claimed they “popularized” dithering in modern design—a bold claim for a technique that’s been around since Robert Floyd and Louis Steinberg formalized it in 1976 and Bill Atkinson refined it for the original Macintosh. The design community swiftly reminded them that revival isn’t invention, and that dithering’s current moment owes more to retro-tech aesthetics meeting modern GPU pipelines than to any single designer’s genius.

Speaking of which, here’s a visual explainer by Damar Aji Pramudita that’s worth your time on how dithering actually works. Apparently it’s only part one of three.