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I would like to see if you could make any changes or improve this with OKLAB color space

😢😢😢 finally someone showing some love to posterization!!! Ive been using it consistently with my digital art because discovering how powerful it was literally shaped my art as a whole and managed to make me find my art style!!! Im honestly surprised to see no one talk about it

I haven't watched the video properly yet, but iirc this was pretty common for earlier cell shaded styles so that might have given it somewhat of a bad image? (no pun intended)

You can find examples of posterization in mapping. Meteorological maps may posterize pressure or temperature regions as an overlay. Same with distribution maps. Topographical maps are basically a map with a z axis rendered via posterized steps. Enter the spiderverse also simulated animating at differen frame counts (on ones, twos, threes, etc) which is essentially posterizing motion to achieve the effect of accentuating miles initial clumsiness compared to the others.

example 2 just reminds me of floating point errors when you go too far from 0, 0

Why does TH-cam keep recommending me Hungarian channels lmao

Personally once you leave the domain of colour I'd use the term "quantization" rather than "posterization", but the latter's Wikipedia page describes "time posterization" (reducing the effective framerate without changing the runtime of the video), so I guess there's precedence for the word being used more metaphorically. (The term originally derives from the appearance of posters printed using a limited colour palette, as is common with some methods of printing.)

when I was 9-10 yo I had an HTC mobile that had a lot of cool effects included in built-in camera app, and they all worked in real time, and the posterization was one of those. This video just brings me nostalgia feelengs

Jpegging, but with purpose

Alpha Minecraft lighting effect

But, Acerola??

could you please give a link to the shader?, a git hub link or anything, iam new to shaders and i tried to follow but i just cant get it to look even close without it bugging everytime.

I only new this from my 2DS lol

Doesn’t lethal company use this?

Tbh I feel like its overused rather than something "Nobody uses"

So... Simulating old graphics of video games from 20+ years ago?

Using þese techniques as well as a smaller pixel ratio (like 160x144) could be interesting

I think the trick to making this effect look really nice is to ensure all of the banding goes along smooth curves rather than noisy edges.

To what extent is this similar to cel-shading? They seem similar to me but I haven't seen anything comparing them. The Wikipedia articles for each don't even mention each other.

"The coolest shader effect that nObOdY uSeS" except it's the base of cel-shading, used by nobody i guess, except for the recent gratest nintendo titles..? also bojler eladó

Reminds me a lot of Lethal Company!

voices of the void kind of uses posterization

I feel like there are very little applications that’ll actually look good with this shader

I don't really like the look of it, it reminds me of texture compression

Well I mean. This effect is very popular though? You just made cel shading.

Hah, I actually did this today at work for a certain shader. Posterisation isn't just for end graphics, but can also be a great tool for generating masks or other elements that make up the final image. In my case, I used it to create a procedural grid texture by posterising the X and Y axes of a texuture coordinate.

Looks like shit.

As a video editor, posterization sets off my constant fear of visible banding from running into the limits of the 8-bit color space. :P

If you really did want to keep a shop feature and have room-specific items, could you have a shop in each room, and it only sells general items and the items specific to that room? With the scan feature (instead of having to pick up items) it might be neat in some rooms to sort of do drive-by shop runs at critical moments... at least, on paper. This would also remove the need to know what the next room is, but I think maybe it could get overpowered quickly if players can stockpile money in easier/less time-limited rooms to save for the harder ones. Anyways, great video!! I enjoyed learning about some of the key problems you identified with your game's gameplay loop. Sometimes as a player I think I know a game could be improved or that some things aren't fun, but I can't identify the specifics (or think about cascading problems that may come from a simple-on-paper fix), so it was interesting to hear from the perspective of the game dev.

I've looked many examples of posterization shaders this past month, each using a slight different approach, but the simplicity of converting HSV to posterize instead of RGB sounds so obvious, also perfectly explained

i absolutely love posterization, and its something i try to shove into my visuals whenever i can. was actually doing that while looking for something to watch

I think hylics uses this

It's used heavily in NieR Automata. The EMP attacks in route B (or C, I forgot) disable parts of your controls and introduce visual glitches. The posterization effect is one of those glitches. Very cool stuff.

Posterization is great for low resolution and low color depth too. If you mess with the parameters you can make images look great while being far smaller

imo posterization looks great in brighter visuals like daylight landscapes because there's more color and it's easier for the shader to pick it up. But for visuals that tend to be dark, especially in video games, I really hate it. In scenes that are very dark, even a small difference in value/tint of a certain area of the screen can change your perspective of the dark like "oh, there's something there" but when it's posterized, it gets locked in the closest color allowed by the effect, which makes things harder to look at. So basically, it's a cool shader but most people want to see more color.

Lethal Company:

It looks cheap and nasty just like aggressive chromatic aberration.

Just use windows 3.1 if you want the definitive quantisation experience.

Such a cool video. I was playing with posterisation and wondering how I could make it better. Nice and concise video. ❤

Hylics by @masonlindroth looks really similar to this

as a mathematician, i think that the distinction between color model and color space is absurd

When you render floats into an 8-bit buffer, you automatically get posterization, which is an artifact I've spent plenty of time trying to remove with dithering.

Oh I was recently experimenting with just this very idea. I was inspired by how original Doom's palette breaks up levels of depth in to different brightnesses to give the appearance of dark regions having lower detail where you can only maybe see some contours of objects and textures. I added a bit of randomness to the brightness channel per pixel to kinda fake temporal dithering while still keeping the effect of shadowy stuff being low detail and indistinct. Obviously would have to be used in a very stylized kind of game. I know lo-fi horror is kinda overdone but yeah it kinda matches this perfectly. :p

Valefisk used a similar effect in his game crypt