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Lifting a corner of the veil
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lugnet.build.mosaic
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Date:
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Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:17:32 GMT
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Tips & tricks:
1) If you decide to convert an image without dithering (e.g. a cartoon
character), you may have noticed that a significant part of the image turns
(dark) grey (in case this colour is in your list of colours to be used), even if
you expected pixels to turn into another colour (such as sand Red, sand
Green or sand Blue).
How did I solve this problem?
Instead of calculating
the nearest colour, I always calculate the 2 nearest colours. If a pixel turns
(dark) grey, I then check if it really is grey. How?
Calculate in RGB-space the
distance of the current pixel to the “greyscale-line” (the line going through
(0,0,0) and (255,255,255)). If this value exceeds a certain predefined number
(e.g. 20), than it means that the pixel isn’t really grey. In this case I don’t
turn the pixel into the nearest colour, but into the 2nd nearest colour.
Example (LDraw RGB-values):
grey (163,162,164)
dark grey (99,95,97)
sand
green (160,188,172)
pixel A (135,140,145)
pixel B (135,170,145)
X1: distance
A-grey = 40
X2: distance A-dark grey = 75
X3: distance A-sand green = 60
X4:
distance to greyscale-line = 7
Y1: distance B-grey = 35
Y2: distance B-dark grey = 96
Y3: distance B-sand green = 41
Y4: distance to greyscale-line = 25
Conclusion:
(X1 > Y1) but (X4 < Y4) --> pixel A should turn into grey, pixel B should turn
into sand green.
2) In my greyscale (brownscale) mosaics, I try to spread
the colours as much as possible (I don’t want half the mosaic to be in one
colour). I first read the entire image to find the lightest and the darkest
pixel. I calculate the distance in RGB-space of these 2 pixels (numbers between
0 and 442; two points on my “greyscale-line”). In between these two values I
divide all the colours (automatically). By doing this I don’t have to change
e.g. colour/brightness or colour saturation levels.
After that, I adjust these
values manually in an attempt to obtain an even better result.
Found anything useful?
Maarten
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Message is in Reply To:
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