Painterly is an application that "paints" input images stroke by stroke to produce digital paintings. GenAI is not used in any part of the production pipeline.
There is a free demo available under Releases on the GitHub repo.
Let me know what you think!
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verdverm•1h ago
I'm curious about the greedy algorithm vs something like compressed sensing. Can you expand on the algo choice and how it works?
flinkerflitzer•29m ago
Sure!
The brush stroke accept/reject algorithm looks at the axis-aligned bounding box that surrounds each candidate brush stroke's affected area. It calculates the cumulative pixel color similarity between the input image and the painting over this area, before and after the candidate brush stroke.
Pixel color similarity is the sum of the absolute difference of each RGB color channel divided by 3.
The candidate brush stroke is accepted and kept by the painting if and only if it represents an improvement in similarity over its affected area AABB.
verdverm•1h ago
flinkerflitzer•29m ago
The brush stroke accept/reject algorithm looks at the axis-aligned bounding box that surrounds each candidate brush stroke's affected area. It calculates the cumulative pixel color similarity between the input image and the painting over this area, before and after the candidate brush stroke.
Pixel color similarity is the sum of the absolute difference of each RGB color channel divided by 3.
The candidate brush stroke is accepted and kept by the painting if and only if it represents an improvement in similarity over its affected area AABB.