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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eunchurn Park
f96b6ab29c Improve EPUB cover image quality with pre-scaling and Atkinson dithering (#116)
## Summary

* **What is the goal of this PR?**

Replace simple threshold-based grayscale quantization with ordered
dithering using a 4x4 Bayer matrix. This eliminates color banding
artifacts and produces smoother gradients on e-ink display.

* **What changes are included?**

- Add 4x4 Bayer dithering matrix for 16-level threshold patterns
- Modify `grayscaleTo2Bit()` function to accept pixel coordinates and
apply position-based dithering
- Replace simple `grayscale >> 6` threshold with ordered dithering
algorithm that produces smoother gradients

## Additional Context

* Bayer matrix approach: The 4x4 Bayer matrix creates a repeating
pattern that distributes quantization error spatially, effectively
simulating 16 levels of gray using only 4 actual color levels (black,
dark gray, light gray, white).

* Cache invalidation: Existing cached `cover.bmp` files will need to be
deleted to see the improved rendering, as the converter only runs when
the cache is missing.
2025-12-28 10:38:14 +11:00
Dave Allie
27035b2b91 Handle 16x16 MCU blocks in JPEG decoding (#120)
## Summary

* Handle 16x16 MCU blocks in JPEG decoding
* We were only correctly handling 8x8 blocks, which means that we did
not correctly support a lot of JPGs leading to an interlacing style on
the images

## Additional Context

* Fixes https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/issues/118
2025-12-24 22:21:41 +11:00
Dave Allie
2a27c6d068 Add JPG image support (#23)
## Summary

- Add basic JPG image support
- Map JPG back to 2-bit BMP output
- Can be used to later render the BMP file from disk or directly pass to
output if wanted
- Give the 3 passes over the data needed to render grayscale content,
putting it on disk is preferred to outputting it multiple times

## Additional Context

- WIP, looking forward to BMP support from
https://github.com/daveallie/crosspoint-reader/pull/16
- Addresses some of #11
2025-12-21 17:15:17 +11:00