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Plain guides to generative design tools for designers: halftone, dithering, patterns, and how to make your own tool without code.
Build Blueprint tools with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
Connect your own coding agent to Blueprint over MCP. It writes the generative design tool on your own subscription; Blueprint checks each version, saves it and runs it, ready to tune, export and share.
What is a generative design tool?
A generative design tool makes images from rules and parameters instead of drawn marks. What that means for graphic designers, how it differs from AI image generators and from engineering generative design, and how to make one without code.
Dithering explained: Bayer, Floyd–Steinberg and Atkinson
How dithering works and which algorithm to pick: ordered Bayer matrices, Floyd–Steinberg and Atkinson error diffusion, noise thresholds, levels and pixel size. With a live dither tool to try each one.
How to make your own halftone generator, without code
A step-by-step guide to making a custom halftone generator in Blueprint: what to write in the request, which controls you get, how to change it in plain words, and how to export and share it.