Method for maintaining uniform spatial frequency over a dataglyph block

A system for reducing the obtrusiveness of artifacts appearing in a glyph shape code image space, comprising:

• a processor for executing conrol instructions and image editing and manipulation instructions comprising:
• an encoder for encoding digital data values as a glyph shape code, said code being composed of glyphs having shapes that encode digital data values, such that each distinct data value that is encoded by said code is represented by the shape of a respective glyph, said glyphs being spatially distributed in a bitmap image space;
• means for analyzing said bitmap image space for determining the presence of artifacts within said bitmap image space;
• and
• means for manipulating said bitmap image space to create a bitmapped image file wherein not less than one dot is placed within not less than one of the artifacts;
• a main memory;
• a mass memory;
• and
• at least one printer for mapping the digital values of a bitmapped image file into the spatially corresponding pixels of the image it prints on a recording medium.

An article of manufacture comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied in said medium which, when said program code is executed by said computer causes said computer to perform a method for reducing the obtrusiveness of artifacts appearing in a glyph shape code image space, said method comprising:

• encoding digital data values as a glyph shape code, said code being composed of glyphs having shapes that encode digital data values, such that each distinct data value that is encoded by said code is represented by the shape of a respective glyph, said glyphs being spatially distributed in a bitmap image space;
• analyzing said bitmap image space for determining the presence of artifacts within said bitmap image space;
• and
• generating a raster image of said bitmap image space, wherein not less than one dot is placed within not less than one of the artifacts.