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Re: Pixelego Viewer available
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:29:18 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Troy Cefaratti writes:
> Very cool applet Eric!
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> Very odd too, as I was JUST thinking to myself last night how cool it would
> be to have a program that would do just this exact thing! (I was thinking
> along the lines of scanning in a photo of someone and having the program
> spit out the parameters so that I could make a "portrait" of them out of
> LEGO)
Same here, though I was inspired by the portraits in "The Ultimate Lego Book".
One thing that's interesting about those pictures is that they're done in three
colors (white, black, beige) as opposed to using the full brick palette. Also,
groups of plates are "bricked" (to coin a term) as appropriate, but the bricks
themselves are also overlapped as to make the portrait sturdy, more like a brick
wall. TLG's designers appear to following a similar kind of "pixelating"
process, by laying grid paper over drawings or photos and shading the grid
appropriately.
Eric, if you get a chance, you might want to investigate some kind of dithering
threshold, or perhaps some kind of post-pixelation cleanup rules. Hmmm...
(Secretly I'm bummed 'cause I didn't do this first. :-)
- Mike
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Pixelego Viewer available
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| Mike, The application I expect to release this weekend handles all of these features (grouping like-vertical plates into bricks, you may choose which colors to use, displays/generates a partitioning map for you, etc...) Later versions I hope to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Pixelego Viewer available
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| (...) It would probably make more sense for the user to run the image through Pixelego, check the results, modify the image to avoid undesired results, and re-Pixelego the image. Some messes could be handled by Pixelego, but some things need to be (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pixelego Viewer available
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| Very cool applet Eric! Very odd too, as I was JUST thinking to myself last night how cool it would be to have a program that would do just this exact thing! (I was thinking along the lines of scanning in a photo of someone and having the program (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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