It actually looks quite nice, reminds me of the Brain Age TAS maths drawings.
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It's not my art, but...
I recently rediscovered a signed copy of a Neopet that I got from a Neopets event in Hong Kong back in 2005! I thought I lost it, but I found it hidden within a strategy guide.
I sealed it in a plastic bag, and scanned it:
It would look nicer if the pixels were ordered, so entire image looked solid…
There is a rather hard problem in mapping contiguous three-dimensional data into two dimensions without overlaps or cuts. A trivial way of solving it is to slice it in thin layers and put the layers next to each others, as was done here. The dimensions of the data is 256x256x256 (red, green and blue channels each have 256 distinct values, for a total of 16777216 distinct combinations of red+green+blue).
Here, the cube was dissected into 256 squares along the blue dimension, each of 256x256 size (red and green axis), and they were arranged on the sheet in a grid formation, so that each successive square is progressively more blue.
What kind of ordering do you suggest?
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Well, if we start not from that we have 3-dimensional color space, but from the image posted above. We already have 4096×4096 pixels. Is it possible to reorder them in another way? Hmm, now I see that it’s not so easy as it may seem to be…
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Well, if we start not from that we have 3-dimensional color space, but from the image posted above. We already have 4096×4096 pixels. Is it possible to reorder them in another way? Hmm, now I see that it’s not so easy as it may seem to be…
Reordering them won't help the fact that the data is still 3-dimensional.
But, you could flip every odd square horizontally/vertically. Then you'd get this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/truecolor2.png
Or you might do that, and swap the blue and red axis. Then you'd get this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/truecolor2b.png Which incidentally highlights how much better the eye is at detecting changes in red or green color than changes in blue color.
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Bisqwit wrote:
WST wrote:
Well, if we start not from that we have 3-dimensional color space, but from the image posted above. We already have 4096×4096 pixels. Is it possible to reorder them in another way? Hmm, now I see that it’s not so easy as it may seem to be…
Reordering them won't help the fact that the data is still 3-dimensional.
But, you could flip every odd square horizontally/vertically. Then you'd get this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/truecolor2.png
Or you might do that, and swap the blue and red axis. Then you'd get this: http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/truecolor2b.png Which incidentally highlights how much better the eye is at detecting changes in red or green color than changes in blue color.
Well, this is better! Thanks a lot :)
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I suggest interlacing all the squares, horizontally and vertically, left to right and top to bottom. Somehow, I imagine the resulting image would be at least more smoothly gradiented than this. The resulting image would have small 16×16 squares with similar colors instead of these much-larger squares.
You could even take the result and apply one of those flipping methods to it.
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I suggest interlacing all the squares, horizontally and vertically, left to right and top to bottom. Somehow, I imagine the resulting image would be at least more smoothly gradiented than this. The resulting image would have small 16×16 squares with similar colors instead of these much-larger squares.
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I suggest interlacing all the squares, horizontally and vertically, left to right and top to bottom. Somehow, I imagine the resulting image would be at least more smoothly gradiented than this. The resulting image would have small 16×16 squares with similar colors instead of these much-larger squares.
I was thinking about that, but I realized that it's not enough to go with R=0,G=0; R=1,G=0; R=0,G=1; R=3,G=1; and so on all the way to R=255,G=254. Eventually you will need to cover pairs with large differences like R=0,G=128; R=200,G=0 and at that point the interlacing will look very ugly indeed.
Yea, it's ugly, and I'm still wondering why I did it.
The colors are a bit off. I'll probably redo it.
(It's made out of 25 unique pentacubes, and the checkerboard pattern persists throughout the structure)
