Effects today

Old processes live on as digital filters.

• 1840s – Cyanotype

  Cyanotype

  Digital blue palette and paper texture instead of chemical UV printing.

• 1860s – Portrait vignette

  Vignette

  A soft edge draws the eye to the center of the image.

• 1880s – Halftone grid

  Halftone Screen

  Halftone dots translate brightness levels into a visible print pattern.

• 1980s – 1-bit dithering

  MacPaint / Dither

  Fixed Macintosh patterns or other methods for tonal simulation.

Similar images can be created using different technical methods.

• 1960s – CRT experiments

  CRT Screen / TV

  Simulated picture tube. Paik's magnetic distortion was a different intervention.

• 1980s – Light contours

  Bloom

  A halo around bright parts of the image approximates the glow look.

• 2010s – RGB split

  RGB Shift

  Offset color channels create colored double contours.

• 2000s – Data moshing for comparison

  JPEG Glitch

  JPEG errors in a single image differ from temporal codec errors.