# Minipix Halftone Renderer

January 27, 2026 · generative-art, algorithms, creative-coding, tools

Canonical: https://www.romellogoodman.com/writing/minipix-halftone-renderer
Originally published: https://mellogood.substack.com/p/minipix-halftone-renderer

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I’ve written a new [renderer](https://mellogood.substack.com/p/rendering-minipix) for [Minipix](https://mellogood.substack.com/p/minipix): Halftone. The renderer looks at your image and asks: “What if we could only use a few colors?” It divides the picture into a grid of small blocks, examines each one, and makes a choice—this block is mostly blue, this one is red, this one is yellow. Then it represents each block with the *nearest* color from a limited palette, drawing it as a dot or line whose size reflects how bright that area was. It’s the aesthetic of old printing presses and comic books where complexity submits to limitation and something new emerges from what’s lost.

![](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/3e22ccc6-53f3-4ff0-71c0-9e37471c7100/public)

![](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/3cfc6b0a-e33a-48a8-3f35-22a3d4ee6000/public)

![](https://imagedelivery.net/BtaYDmQqPcGi8C3w4F2NuA/0e141327-91d0-4abe-e23a-75d92d284900/public)

-Mello