An image montage (AKA: photomosaic) generator
Remember those posters you might have seen? Where a character or scene from a movie was made out of a montage of hundreds of images of said movie? Yeah. Those photomosaics are neat.
This project is to be able to make my own from a given set of images.
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Copy an image you want to montage to "data/goal.png"
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Edit "comfig.yaml" and change the value of 'imagedir' to your directory of source images.
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Run "make"
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Output will be "output.png"
If you wish to then repeat the process with a different image:
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Change out "data/goal.png" with a new image
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"make clean"
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"make"
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An average is taken of each source frame. That is: sum all values of R, G, and B, and divide for average. The pixel is then determined to be that color.
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The "nearest match" for the pixels is calculated via Euclidian distance on a cube:
A range of acceptable distance is used and then random pixels that are within that range are selected to compose the montage.
Equasion above is credit to wikipedia. And more info can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance
GPL 2 - See "LICENSE" in repo.