The Halftone Camera.
One ink. A thousand shades.
Change the screen and watch an image become a field of marks.
Continuous tone
Six cells across
Column 25 / row 25
Tone is a matter of distance.
A screen replaces shades with differently sized marks in one ink. Up close you read the construction; at a distance the eye gathers the marks into an image. The two views below the print hold those readings together.
Use the Halftone Plate component ↗Leave room for the paper.
Each cell samples a tone. Mark area follows its darkness, multiplied by the ink-gain setting. Marks stay separated by at least eight percent of the cell width. Coverage reports geometric ink area inside the image, excluding the paper margin.
The built-in scenes are authored geometry. Local images use a weighted sRGB grayscale approximation and a centre crop. This is a tonal design tool, not a calibrated print or physical dot-gain simulation. Export contains the vector marks and settings; no original image file is embedded.