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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msn com> schreef in bericht
news:48ad5496@news.povray.org...
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> A closer look at the table top
>
That shows it very well! The original photograph is nicely deformed this
way.
Thomas
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Jim Charter wrote:
> To automate a more realistic mosaic, where the pieces loosely follow
> contours, would be an interesting accomplishment, but not within my
> reach I am afraid.
I know how I would do it, but it wouldn't be worth it. It would still
look fake. It takes a real-life artist to accomplish something this:
http://www.lilianbroca.com/index.php/mosaics-gallery.php
Your tables look like the Ikea version, which suits a modest Bistro like
this one. The whole scene reminds me of the kind of place I used to see
around Austin: a pizza kitchen with tables left over from when it was a
coffee house and a lucky cat on the counter left over from when it was a
pho shop. These places all seem to have been taken over by corporate
restaurants.
Houston family-owned restaurants are more resistant to corporate
take-over, but Houston doesn't have beautiful scenery or historic
architecture. There is something Romantic about eating a plate of
over-priced, under-portioned, glorified junk-food in a beautiful
setting, at least when you're immature and idealistic. The famous Oasis
(Garth Brooks slipped on down to it) in Austin was nothing more than a
burger joint with a view.
-Shay
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Shay wrote:
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> I know how I would do it, but it wouldn't be worth it. It would still
> look fake.
Your standards may be too high. I would be interested in your idea.
It takes a real-life artist to accomplish something this:
> http://www.lilianbroca.com/index.php/mosaics-gallery.php
>
No, that level could not be programmed. But cruder result could hold
some charm.
> Your tables look like the Ikea version, which suits a modest Bistro like
> this one.
Yes, it was really about the table-tops. They drove the scene.
The whole scene reminds me of the kind of place I used to see
> around Austin: a pizza kitchen with tables left over from when it was a
> coffee house and a lucky cat on the counter left over from when it was a
> pho shop. These places all seem to have been taken over by corporate
> restaurants.
There was a well-known student, cafe-type, hangout around the University
of Toronto called "Lickin' Chicken" Used to *be* a Lickin Chicken so
they just left the sign there.
>
> Houston family-owned restaurants are more resistant to corporate
> take-over, but Houston doesn't have beautiful scenery or historic
> architecture. There is something Romantic about eating a plate of
> over-priced, under-portioned, glorified junk-food in a beautiful
> setting, at least when you're immature and idealistic. The famous Oasis
> (Garth Brooks slipped on down to it) in Austin was nothing more than a
> burger joint with a view.
>
Well, garden restaurants in the east village here have zero view.
They're built in the charmless backyard/airshafts of tenement buildings,
and shaded with weeds that grew into trees. But we love 'em and pay
$3000/mo for one bedroom closet apartments to be near 'em because this
is New York and gawd knows only New York has the right to call itself
New York.
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Jim Charter wrote:
> Shay wrote:
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>> I know how I would do it, but it wouldn't be worth it. It would still
>> look fake.
>
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> Your standards may be too high. I would be interested in your idea.
Nothing revolutionary:
1. "Posterize" the image into an appropriate number of colors
2. Use marching squares to build borders between colored regions
3. Place tiles along the borders
4. Advance the borders and check for intersections
OR.... The slower, easier way
4. March the squares again, this time checking for tiles as well as
color differences.
-Shay
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