Talk:Robert Floyd
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[edit] Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion
A personal story, not suitable for the encyclopedia entry:
One year somewhat late in his career I bumped into Bob Floyd at the supermarket, and we struck up a conversation. My contacts years earlier had been about parsing, but later I concentrated on computer graphics. He asked me if there was any interest in that old paper he had published about error diffusion, and seemed genuinely surprised to hear it had become a staple! He told me that he had looked at woodcuts and engraving techniques and tried to design an automatic technique for approximating shading with black and white that gave a similar appearance.
