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gaugo87 / PIXEstL

A program for creating color lithophanies and pixel images
MIT License
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Using PIXEstl to create a non lithophane image #7

Open jwhiteman67 opened 8 months ago

jwhiteman67 commented 8 months ago

I see you have the option to create a Pixel Art image. Is it supposed to create an image that can be used to hand on wall, etc without light? If so I have had little luck with it creating the colors needed to recreate the file I was using. It mainly create a image with CMYK and nothing seemed 'mixed' to create the desired effect.

Here is the command I used: java -jar /Users/jwhiteman/Documents/Projects/PIXEstL-0.0.9/PIXEstL.jar -Y -w 108 -H 134 -p /Users/jwhiteman/Documents/Projects/PIXEstL-0.0.9/8.json -f 0.24 -m .2 -b 0.12 -M 1.8 -tW .1 -cW .1 -z true -Z true -F FULL -d RGB --srcImagePath '/Users/jwhiteman/Documents/3D/_clipart/StainedGlass/Stained-Glass-Dragon-Background-84739800/1 (1).png'

Perhaps I am doing something wrong or I am not understanding what this feature does. I was hoping it worked similar to Hue Forge and performed the color mixing.

gaugo87 commented 8 months ago

Hi,

The 'FULL' mode doesn't work like that. It doesn't mix the colors. It takes them as they are.

I've started working on a mode that does the mixing in a painting mode (like hueforge), but progress is slow. Sorry.

jwhiteman67 commented 8 months ago

Look forward to it

ibgregr commented 6 months ago

Hi,

The 'FULL' mode doesn't work like that. It doesn't mix the colors. It takes them as they are.

I've started working on a mode that does the mixing in a painting mode (like hueforge), but progress is slow. Sorry.

@gaugo87 I can tell you this, if you were able to get this painting mode (aka HueForge) working I would definitely be willing to pay for your app. Heck, I would pay for just the lithophane part as it stands. Sure, it's not perfect, and requires way too much effort in the filament calibration department, but it does work well. I would like to be able to give it the base color of the filament and that TD (aka HueForge again) value and the code figure out the layering of those colors.

HueForge, in my opinion, is too tricky to use for multi color photos unless you want to chop up the picture into layers, print those "parts" in the colors you want, and then glue it all back together. That is not something that is worth the effort to me. So, I look forward to the day you get this working!

Greg