Dither Threshold
A grid of dots, kept or dropped by where the noise crosses a line.
See it in use
- Portrait — inset plate
- Portrait — full bleed
- Landscape — split
- Landscape — band
As a website background
Northwind
Infrastructure that gets out of the way
A worked example — your pattern, sitting behind real page furniture.
Start buildingHow it works
Every station on a square grid samples the noise field once. Above the threshold it keeps its dot, sized by how far above it landed; below, nothing is drawn at all. That single cut is what separates this from a halftone — there is no smooth tonal ramp, only a hard edge that the grid then renders as a ragged coastline. Sliding the threshold does not fade the sheet in and out so much as flood or drain it, and the most interesting settings sit within a few hundredths of where the field spends most of its time.