diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index efe94e8..034c9f2 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 func main() {
 	if len(os.Args) == 1 || len(os.Args) > 4 || os.Args[1] == "help" {
 		fmt.Printf(`usage: %s <path/to/image.ext> <dither_option> <path/to/output.png>
-  Supported dither options are: noop, naive, randomnoise 
+  Supported dither options are: noop; naive; randomnoise; bayer{0,1}; bayer{0,1}n
   Supported input image formats are jpg, png
 `, os.Args[0])
 		os.Exit(0)
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ func main() {
 		new = apply(i, bayerDithering(1, false))
 	case "bayer1n":
 		new = apply(i, bayerDithering(1, true))
+	case "simpleerror":
+		new = apply(i, simpleErrorDiffusion())
 	default:
 		fmt.Printf("unknown ditherer option: %s\n", ditherer)
 		os.Exit(2)
diff --git a/quantizer.go b/quantizer.go
index 6a22f17..16d8b85 100644
--- a/quantizer.go
+++ b/quantizer.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package main
 import (
 	"image"
 	"image/color"
-	"math"
 	"math/rand"
 )
 
@@ -123,21 +122,31 @@ func bayerDithering(level int, invert bool) quantizerFunction {
 	}
 }
 
-// That is, "relative luminance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_luminance.
-// go's color library doesn't give any information on what "color space" this RGBA is derived from.
-// Although the results look decent without using the sRGB->LinearRGB/CIE XYZ transformation,
-// it's probably subtly wrong. Will play around with it.
-// In particular, images seem "brighter" than they're supposed to be.
-func luminence(c color.Color) float64 {
-	r, g, b, _ := c.RGBA()
-	// we divide by 65535 because each RGB value from RGBA() returns in the range [0,65535)
-	return (0.2126*float64(r) + 0.7152*float64(g) + 0.0722*float64(b)) / 65535
+func simpleErrorDiffusion() quantizerFunction {
+	errMap := make(map[coord]float64)
+	return func(x int, y int, c color.Color) color.Color {
+		l := luminence(c) + errMap[coord{x: x, y: y}]
+		if l > 0.5 {
+			errMap[coord{x: x + 1, y: y}] = (l - 1.0) / 2.0
+			errMap[coord{x: x, y: y + 1}] = (l - 1.0) / 2.0
+			delete(errMap, coord{x: x, y: y})
+			return color.White
+		}
+		errMap[coord{x: x + 1, y: y}] = l / 2.0
+		errMap[coord{x: x, y: y + 1}] = l / 2.0
+		delete(errMap, coord{x: x, y: y})
+		return color.Black
+	}
 }
 
-// seems to result in super-dark images right now.
-func sRGBtoXYZ(u float64) float64 {
-	if u <= 0.04045 {
-		return (25 * u) / 323
+// That is, "relative luminance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_luminance.
+// go's color library doesn't give any information on what "color space" the RGBA is derived from,
+// so we convert to Y'CbCr, which returns luminence directly as the Y component.
+func luminence(c color.Color) float64 {
+	nr, ok := color.NRGBAModel.Convert(c).(color.NRGBA)
+	if !ok {
+		return 0
 	}
-	return math.Pow(((200*u)+11)/211, 2.4)
+	y, _, _ := color.RGBToYCbCr(nr.R, nr.G, nr.B)
+	return float64(y) / 255.0
 }
diff --git a/quantizer_test.go b/quantizer_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09c3208
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quantizer_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"image/color"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestNoop(t *testing.T) {
+	c := noOp(0, 0, color.White)
+	r, g, b, a := c.RGBA()
+	if r != 0xffff || g != 0xffff || b != 0xffff || a != 0xffff {
+		t.Log("noop did not return input")
+		t.Fail()
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLuminence(t *testing.T) {
+	l := luminence(color.White)
+	if l != 1 {
+		t.Logf("white input did not output 1, instead %f", l)
+		t.Fail()
+	}
+	l = luminence(color.Black)
+	if l != 0 {
+		t.Logf("black input did not output 0, instead %f", l)
+		t.Fail()
+	}
+	l = luminence(color.Gray16{0x8000})
+	if l < 0.5 {
+		t.Logf("white-leaning gray input was not above 0.5, instead %f", l)
+		t.Fail()
+	}
+	l = luminence(color.Gray16{0x7fff})
+	if l > 0.5 {
+		t.Logf("black-leaning gray input not below 0.5, instead %f", l)
+		t.Fail()
+	}
+}