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Hello!
I’m posting this on behalf of Tobias Reichling:
Hi,
we - Adrian Schütz and Tobias Reichling, two German students (computer
science) - have passed our diploma with the title:
“Generating mosaics from multicolor raster graphics
by optimized interaction
of improved and newly developed
quantisation and tiling algorithms”
In addition to the written paper we have made the software PicToBrick!
PicToBrick is a software to generate mosaics from digital pictures. The
materials to construct the mosaic as well as their colours and forms can
be chosen freely. For mosaics constructed by Ministeck® and LEGO®
PicToBrick provides complete system configurations. These configurations
contain information for current colours and respectively forms of
elements and can be modified and enlarged user-defined.
To get results as good as possible for different master illustrations
seven methods of colour definition (quantisation) are at your disposal.
In addition you can choose between five methods to define the element
forms (tiling).
Besides the produced mosaic picture PicToBrick provides a multitude of
different output documents. Among other things they contain a list of
materials, a building instruction as well as information about the
utilised colours and forms of material.
PicToBrick was completely developed in JAVA and can be used cross
platform (Windows, Linux, Mac). The software is published as open source
under GPL2. Furthermore PricToBrick is gratis.
For more information see: http://www.pictobrick.de (page available in
German and English).
(on the left side: Tobias Reichling - on the right side: Adrian Schütz)
Best Regards,
Adrian Schütz (pictobrick@basezero.net)
Tobias Reichling (pictobrick@t-reichling.de)
p.s.: If you find bugs or have questions or improvements or something
else please contact us via email!
p.s.: We are pleased about every link you put on PicToBrick.de. Therefor
you can use the following banners and buttons:
http://www.pictobrick.de/content_en/links.html
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In lugnet.cad, Johannes Koehler wrote:
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Hello!
I’m posting this on behalf of Tobias Reichling:
Hi,
we - Adrian Schütz and Tobias Reichling, two German students (computer
science) - have passed our diploma with the title:
“Generating mosaics from multicolor raster graphics
by optimized interaction
of improved and newly developed
quantisation and tiling algorithms”
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Is their paper anywhere on their site? I’d like to read it.
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In lugnet.cad, Jordan Bradford wrote:
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> Is their paper anywhere on their site? I'd like to read it.
[reply on behalf of Tobias Reichling]
Hi Jordan, this paper exists in a German version only, and due to the size of
this document (more than 50MB as .pdf file) it is not available for download.
best regards,
Jan (on behalf of Tobias)
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In lugnet.cad, Johannes Koehler wrote:
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In addition to the written paper we have made the software PicToBrick!
PicToBrick is a software to generate mosaics from digital pictures. The
materials to construct the mosaic as well as their colours and forms can
be chosen freely. For mosaics constructed by Ministeck® and LEGO®
PicToBrick provides complete system configurations. These configurations
contain information for current colours and respectively forms of
elements and can be modified and enlarged user-defined.
To get results as good as possible for different master illustrations
seven methods of colour definition (quantisation) are at your disposal.
In addition you can choose between five methods to define the element
forms (tiling).
Besides the produced mosaic picture PicToBrick provides a multitude of
different output documents. Among other things they contain a list of
materials, a building instruction as well as information about the
utilised colours and forms of material.
PicToBrick was completely developed in JAVA and can be used cross
platform (Windows, Linux, Mac). The software is published as open source
under GPL2. Furthermore PricToBrick is gratis.
For more information see: http://www.pictobrick.de (page available in
German and English).
(on the left side: Tobias Reichling - on the right side: Adrian Schütz)
Best Regards,
Adrian Schütz (pictobrick@basezero.net)
Tobias Reichling (pictobrick@t-reichling.de)
p.s.: If you find bugs or have questions or improvements or something
else please contact us via email!
p.s.: We are pleased about every link you put on PicToBrick.de. Therefor
you can use the following banners and buttons:
http://www.pictobrick.de/content_en/links.html
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I just downloaded this to see what it could do - I saw the pix on Brickshelf
last night and wondering what was up.
All I have to say is WOW. In the space of ten minutes, I opened a photo, set up
the configuration, played with settings and got a mosaic...I would have gone for
the instructs and everything, but I wanted to do another mosaic!
This
is a really nice program and with it being cross-platform, a real nice thing for
me, since I am a Mac user.
Outstanding job!
Joe Meno
Editor/Publisher, BrickJournal
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Yes, very neat programming! I tried to make a quick and dirty mosaic and it
came out alright, but if I want to convert a picture, I’d want all the colors
that are in the original. is there some tool to ‘grap’ the map of a jpg or
gif? and then, what if I want to create the mosaic for real, then i’d need
all the available brick colors no?
good work!
Jan.
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