liam48D wrote:

gtoal wrote:

Zro716 wrote:

I have no idea what I was coding but this is the result

Let's call it a pencil sketch…

A rather good one at that!

I think I'll call it “Etch-a-Sketch” renderer…

idk why the top of the sunglasses are calculated to be so soft

chooper100 wrote:

The hard part is then figuring out which vertices belong to which polygon. Although I don't know how this would be done I am sure there is a way.

delaunay triangulation to the rescue

@chooper100 I've finished a bare-minimum project that polygonizes an image in the way you described but the results aren't all that satisfactory, to say the least. It stores all the intersections, it finds all the valid triangles, it calculates an average color for the tri region*, but the result is a low-poly image that makes it hard to discern the original image within.

* not really it just takes the color at the centroid



this is/was the cowboy image and it took about 3 minutes to finish the triangulation part, with a couple minor floating point issues (see bottom right corner). I reckon a higher intersection count would make the image clearer, but it would probably have to take around 10 times as many as the example to give a little more detail. So, I guess it's a success?

for future edits: I'll post another image with more polygons and redo the color “averaging”

Zro716 wrote:

@chooper100 I've finished a bare-minimum project that polygonizes an image in the way you described but the results aren't all that satisfactory, to say the least. It stores all the intersections, it finds all the valid triangles, it calculates an average color for the tri region*, but the result is a low-poly image that is difficult to visualize the original image in.

* not really it just takes the color at the centroid



this is/was the cowboy image and it took about 3 minutes to finish the triangulation part, with a couple minor floating point issues (see bottom right corner). I reckon a higher intersection count would make the image clearer, but it would probably have to take around 10 times as many as the example to give a little more detail. So, I guess it's a success?

for future edits: I'll post another image with more polygons and redo the color “averaging”

It kind of looks like a monkey cowboy [/immaturecomment]

Zro716 wrote:

@chooper100 I've finished a bare-minimum project that polygonizes an image in the way you described but the results aren't all that satisfactory, to say the least. It stores all the intersections, it finds all the valid triangles, it calculates an average color for the tri region*, but the result is a low-poly image that makes it hard to discern the original image within.

* not really it just takes the color at the centroid



this is/was the cowboy image and it took about 3 minutes to finish the triangulation part, with a couple minor floating point issues (see bottom right corner). I reckon a higher intersection count would make the image clearer, but it would probably have to take around 10 times as many as the example to give a little more detail. So, I guess it's a success?

for future edits: I'll post another image with more polygons and redo the color “averaging”

Okay, good work so far though!

Zro716 wrote:

@chooper100 I've finished a bare-minimum project that polygonizes an image in the way you described but the results aren't all that satisfactory, to say the least. It stores all the intersections, it finds all the valid triangles, it calculates an average color for the tri region*, but the result is a low-poly image that makes it hard to discern the original image within.

* not really it just takes the color at the centroid



this is/was the cowboy image and it took about 3 minutes to finish the triangulation part, with a couple minor floating point issues (see bottom right corner). I reckon a higher intersection count would make the image clearer, but it would probably have to take around 10 times as many as the example to give a little more detail. So, I guess it's a success?

for future edits: I'll post another image with more polygons and redo the color “averaging”

Looks cool!

OMG I have just created an amazing blur algorithm! Can't wait to share it!

EDIT: Shared! Link: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/74217022/


Blur with level 10

So I've tried making one of my own… Not as impressive as what many of you guys have been doing, but still quite fun to make nonetheless.

Edit: Another happened.

PullJosh wrote:

So I've tried making one of my own… Not as impressive as what many of you guys have been doing, but still quite fun to make nonetheless.

Edit: Another happened.

Awesome!

I modified @PullJosh's project to change it to a grayscale converter.
@gtoal can you add it to the studio and make me a curator? Please?

I tried to create an oil painting effect by adding shading to each brush stroke: Oil painted NPR guy

Layzej wrote:

I tried to create an oil painting effect by adding shading to each brush stroke: Oil painted NPR guy

Awesome!

Layzej wrote:

I tried to create an oil painting effect by adding shading to each brush stroke:

Outstanding, it works really well! Reminiscent of the style of Leroy Neiman's work in the 1970's: http://www.paragonfineart.com/artists/leroy-neiman.html

If we can turn out a few more images of this quality in various styles, what do you all think of putting together an art exhibit on the net (maybe hosted on Flickr or a stand alone web site) to get some publicity for Scratch?

G

gtoal wrote:

Zro716 wrote:

I have no idea what I was coding but this is the result

Let's call it a pencil sketch…

I'd say it's blur.

IronBit_Studios wrote:

gtoal wrote:

Zro716 wrote:

I have no idea what I was coding but this is the result

Let's call it a pencil sketch…

I'd say it's blur.

Unfortunately projects are being updated/reused so the images that were posted are no longer what you see!

gtoal wrote:

If we can turn out a few more images of this quality in various styles, what do you all think of putting together an art exhibit on the net (maybe hosted on Flickr or a stand alone web site) to get some publicity for Scratch?

Neat idea. We should scan some different images though rather than have 20 NPR guy images If anyone wants to scan their favourite picture into a list you can use this project; https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/66980580/

Layzej wrote:

gtoal wrote:

If we can turn out a few more images of this quality in various styles, what do you all think of putting together an art exhibit on the net (maybe hosted on Flickr or a stand alone web site) to get some publicity for Scratch?

Neat idea. We should scan some different images though rather than have 20 NPR guy images If anyone wants to scan their favourite picture into a list you can use this project; https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/66980580/

I'd be happy to do a bit of design work for a stand alone site featuring the images.

Layzej wrote:

gtoal wrote:

If we can turn out a few more images of this quality in various styles, what do you all think of putting together an art exhibit on the net (maybe hosted on Flickr or a stand alone web site) to get some publicity for Scratch?

Neat idea. We should scan some different images though rather than have 20 NPR guy images If anyone wants to scan their favourite picture into a list you can use this project; https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/projects/66980580/

Actually I think it would work better if the exhibition has a theme, and variations on a theme is a good basis. We already have this image which has the advantage of 1) being free from copyright issues; and 2) being a Scratcher! Unless you really object. It's not that embarrassing is it?

I was thinking that variations on “NPR Guy” would be the main exhibit and anything else (like the abstract generated stuff) could be in a “side gallery” rather than being omitted altogether.

G

PullJosh wrote:

I'd be happy to do a bit of design work for a stand alone site featuring the images.

Go for it!

I should probably make another one of these sometime today…

A few points:
1) If we decide on needing more images, we could do some of the Scratch team (with permission) or other scratch-themed images
2) If you guys think I should make custom site (rather than the far more simple, but slightly less impressive Flickr), we could consider something like ilm.com, where hovering over an image shows the original.