Greetings,

I rewrote one of my old plugins turning it into Python program. The 
program read images (like PNG) and convert them into POV-Ray scene 
consisting of packed spheres, each sphere having a base color of 
corresponding pixel. Since Python nowadays seem to be preinstalled on 
almost any computer, I assume it makes my old program cross-platform. 
Hopefully someone will find it suitable for something. Just one warning: 
it turns one source pixel into a POV sphere supposed to be rendered 
relatively big, so start testing it with small source images.

Have fun,

Ilya

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Hi,

I finally added some system to that Python stuff for image to POVRay 
conversion, so now it, by default, turns image pixels into either 
spheres or boxes, rotates and scales them somehow, covers both C3 and C4 
symmetry (well, actally with options for C2), and mostly resides here:

https://github.com/Dnyarri/POVmosaic

and here:

https://gitflic.ru/project/dnyarri/povmosaic

Attached is a casual rendering with default settings just to capture 
your attention.

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Sorry, wrong picture. Now attached it result of "b4zaikaR" with default 
setting. Source image is also attached. I hope it sort of shows the idea 
I had in mind when starting it.

On 12.01.2024 17:02, Ilya Razmanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally added some system to that Python stuff for image to POVRay 
> conversion, so now it, by default, turns image pixels into either 
> spheres or boxes, rotates and scales them somehow, covers both C3 and C4 
> symmetry (well, actally with options for C2), and mostly resides here:
> 
> https://github.com/Dnyarri/POVmosaic
> 
> and here:
> 
> https://gitflic.ru/project/dnyarri/povmosaic
> 
> Attached is a casual rendering with default settings just to capture 
> your attention.

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Op 13/01/2024 om 09:44 schreef Ilya Razmanov:
> Sorry, wrong picture. Now attached it result of "b4zaikaR" with default 
> setting. Source image is also attached. I hope it sort of shows the idea 
> I had in mind when starting it.
> 

I think it is neat and I like it. Maybe this is also thought of here, 
but what if the cube rotations were increasingly random with 
increasingly darker colours? Might not be a good idea, but....

-- 
Thomas

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On 14.01.2024 10:11, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> I think it is neat and I like it. Maybe this is also thought of here, 
> but what if the cube rotations were increasingly random with 
> increasingly darker colours?
Well, programs are small and key part is mostly concentrated in on 
string, so, if you have Python (I had it because daughter installed it 
for some other purposes, so, to get the Python, you should get a 
daughter as an installation manager), you can rotate, resize, whatever 
these cubes as you wish. Besides, they are not just cubes - they are 
declared as "thingie" in the beginning of POV file, so you can change 
them from "box" to something else. The only reason I don't do every 
possible thing inside program is that it would actually require some 
fast preview to make sence of such a flexible editing, and I don't see 
the way to have a preview so far. Rumors are there's a OpenGL for 
Python, but I have no experience with it, maybe it's not good enough for 
my purpose.

But well, so far you can edit all this with text editor and hopefully do 
something that may be considered "art".

Ilya

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