Schnurrikowski Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Blue Max: Now, that is a really cool pic! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Beautiful artwork of a crying eye featuring Ukraine’s flag and bombing of capital Kyiv by My Dog Sighs in Cardiff, Wales. https://streetartutopia.com/2022/03/01/beautiful-artwork-of-a-crying-eye-featuring-ukraines-flag-and-capital-kyiv/ In this symbolic way, I would like to express my protest against the pain and suffering experienced by the Ukrainian people. I am wholeheartedly with everyone whose life has turned into the hell. May this nightmare end as soon as possible... amarok_crying_eye.xex 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 (edited) @amarok Stunning conversion and image there!! I second your sentiment!! Edited March 14, 2022 by Beeblebrox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudografx Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Putler as grabbed somewhere on the internets and retouched a bit. 21 colours (PAL). putler.xex 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Just now, pseudografx said: Putler as grabbed somewhere on the internets and retouched a bit. 21 colours (PAL). putler.xex 21.1 kB · 1 download Putler Stalinsky with dove droppings! Classic. Bidenz loves him. The world not so much. I love the image! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said: Putler Stalinsky with dove droppings! Classic. Bidenz loves him. The world not so much. I love the image! What do you mean by this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 @amarok Your wonderful Crying eye image on my B&O MX4000 CRT (Atari 800 off S-video) - looks great! Aside the colours, tear drop and overall impact of the image itself I love the impression of the texture of the wall coming through. If I ever get half as good results as you with my images I'll be a happy man! Keep em coming! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gury Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 Another one from Miki Muster and his heroes: Zvitorepec, Lakotnik and Trdonja! zmajev-otok.xex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Loweswater, South Shore Cumbria, English Lake District, photo taken March 26th 2022. The fell is Whiteside. 57 colours. drpeter_Loweswater.xex 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Robert Plant Ageing rocker and Led Zeppelin front man ? 'Hey-hey mama said the way you move; gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove' ? drpeter_Plant.xex 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Leopard 28 colours drpeter_Leopard.xex 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 @drpeter Nice conversion - the rich colours of the Leopard's spots/markings and the tree bark really stand out. I wonder whether a little dithering in the background might enhance the yellow in said background especially. Going in my favourites folder this one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 13 minutes ago, Beeblebrox said: I wonder whether a little dithering in the background might enhance the yellow in said background especially. This is the original png if you want to have a play with it. These are the settings I used. Only 1 run. ; ---------------------------------- ; RastaConverter by Ilmenit v.Beta7 ; InputName: Leopard.png ; CmdLine: Leopard.png /pal=altirra /dither=jarvis /dither_val=.4 /contrast=40 /s=8000 /threads=4 ; Evaluations: 1013320612 ; Score: 8.08142 ; ---------------------------------- 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Turned out well for sure - helped a lot in that the tree and background can share common colours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 (edited) Retrospective Having now posted well over 100 Rasta conversions (131 to be precise), I thought it would be interesting to reflect on my ‘portfolio’ and in doing so highlight some of my favourites and those apparently most appreciated by the community. Regarding the latter, the only objective information available is the number of downloads and likes for each conversion. Interestingly, these don’t closely correspond- with the ratio of downloads to likes varying between roughly 20:1 and 1:1! The range of likes in my portfolio is from 2 to 24 and downloads from about 10 to about 150- i.e. overall there about 5 times as many downloads as likes. I therefore scored each conversion, awarding 1 point for each download and 5 points for each like. Obviously, recent posts have had a shorter time to accumulate downloads and likes, so I also fitted a line to that trend and used it to adjust the score of more recent posts upwards in compensation. An interesting observation is that there is no correlation between the number of unique colours in a conversion and its ‘popularity score’, except that 8 out of 10 purely greyscale conversions were in the bottom half of the pile. That said, the 3rd highest ranking of all the conversions was the greyscale ‘Goodbye Mr Bond’, so other factors can clearly trump a lack of colour! Mr Connery also bucked the trend that despite being amongst the most technically challenging conversions, portraits did not generally score highly; perhaps being a well-known and well-loved personality as well as being in the news at the time helped garner downloads and likes. The next-highest-ranking portrait after Sean Connery was the 18th-placed Revée Walcott-Nolan, and after that Sir Ian McKellen at 43rd. On the subject of ‘number of colours’, the median in my conversions (excluding the pure greyscales) is 40, with the most being 86 (from a possible PAL palette of 120) in ‘Summer Moon Seen from Itsukushima Shrine’ and the fewest being just 13 in three conversions- including the 6th-ranked ‘Castle Dracula’. So, which were the top 5 ranked conversions? In order (click on hyperlinks in titles to view the original posts): 1. Tyger (also most likes at 24) 2. Belcroute Bay 3. Goodbye, Mr Bond 4. Kanagawa-oki nami ura (also most downloads at 149) 5. Monumental Statue ‘Belcroute Bay’ at No.2 is somewhat gratifying, being a conversion of one of my own photos and therefore one of the minority that could be regarded as ‘all my own work’- apart from the routine nods to @ilmenit for authoring RastaConverter itself and @phaeron for optimising it. ‘Tyger’ and ‘Monumental Statue’ would also be among my personal favourites. Some that didn’t make the top 5 include (in no particular order): ‘White Rock’ (16th) and ‘Watchers By The Shore’ (13th) (early conversions of my own photographs) ‘Lonesome Road’ (81st) (my favourite greyscale conversion) ‘Ophelia’ (12th) My favourite portrait is Revée Walcott-Nolan (18th) and my award for ‘Most underrated conversion’ goes to ‘Panzer IV’ (120th) with an honourable mention to ‘Severinus the Herbalist’ (113th). Finally, the ‘Labour of love’ award goes to ‘Tutankhamun’ (38th), which was run with various tweaks 5 times over the course of a month, the final version involving over 3.5 billion iterations, a mask, and multiple minor manual edits to the screen kernel, player graphics and bitmap. For anyone inclined to peruse the entire ouvre, I attach a spreadsheet including hyperlinks to all the original posts, .png output images and .xex files along with their 'scores': Retrospective.xlsx Edited April 21, 2022 by drpeter 10 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 (edited) Great work DrPeter and nice to revisit some of your fantastic image conversions. (Monumental statue is still one of my all time favs). A fairly recent conversion of mine from March. Ran it for ages. (I've been converting a lot as usual but for one reason or another not been posting). Faye Valantine of Cowboy Bebop fame. Very happy with the result. 5.8 billion evaluations 61 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_Fayesmokingsm1_01_FIXED_CENTERED.XEX (Altirra image with PAL high artifacting enabled) Beeblebrox_Fayesmokingsm1_01_FIXED_CENTERED.xex Source file was reduced to 256 colours RGB lines and saturation, contract and gamma tweaked/image resized to 320*200 in Irfanview, then processed in RC at 320*200 after a few more RC settings were tweaked Used Sheddy's line error reomoval tool and centering tool. (Thanks to Sheddy for helping me finally nail how to centre a 320*200 image). Settings used: Filter = bilinear; pal = altirra; color dis = yuv; initial state = smart; no of solutions = 20000; Threads = 9; preprocess = yuv; brightness = -3; contrast = 49; gamma = 1; dither = jarvis; dither strength = 0.7; random - 0.6; mask applied; mask value = 12 (here is the original source file for comparrison (as I defintely wanted to keep the colours in the background as much as possible to offset the character and the source file image background is intentionally blurred anyway). Displayed on my B&O MX4000 CRT (800 S-video) - again excuse the mobile phone camera colours from a CRT - (as usual difficult to capture what is actually seen by the naked eye): and on my 10" CRT via 800XL on S-video: Edited April 21, 2022 by Beeblebrox 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 34 colours GravityWorm_head.xex 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 1 hour ago, GravityWorm said: 34 colours GravityWorm_head.xex 22.16 kB · 3 downloads @GravityWorm Nice one! What pallette did you use? Was the original source file's number of colours reduced prior to conversion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauro Rodriguez Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 15 hours ago, drpeter said: Retrospective Having now posted well over 100 Rasta conversions (131 to be precise), I thought it would be interesting to reflect on my ‘portfolio’ and in doing so highlight some of my favourites and those apparently most appreciated by the community. Regarding the latter, the only objective information available is the number of downloads and likes for each conversion. Interestingly, these don’t closely correspond- with the ratio of downloads to likes varying between roughly 20:1 and 1:1! The range of likes in my portfolio is from 2 to 24 and downloads from about 10 to about 150- i.e. overall there about 5 times as many downloads as likes. I therefore scored each conversion, awarding 1 point for each download and 5 points for each like. Obviously, recent posts have had a shorter time to accumulate downloads and likes, so I also fitted a line to that trend and used it to adjust the score of more recent posts upwards in compensation. An interesting observation is that there is no correlation between the number of unique colours in a conversion and its ‘popularity score’, except that 8 out of 10 purely greyscale conversions were in the bottom half of the pile. That said, the 3rd highest ranking of all the conversions was the greyscale ‘Goodbye Mr Bond’, so other factors can clearly trump a lack of colour! Mr Connery also bucked the trend that despite being amongst the most technically challenging conversions, portraits did not generally score highly; perhaps being a well-known and well-loved personality as well as being in the news at the time helped garner downloads and likes. The next-highest-ranking portrait after Sean Connery was the 18th-placed Revée Walcott-Nolan, and after that Sir Ian McKellen at 43rd. On the subject of ‘number of colours’, the median in my conversions (excluding the pure greyscales) is 40, with the most being 86 (from a possible PAL palette of 120) in ‘Summer Moon Seen from Itsukushima Shrine’ and the fewest being just 13 in three conversions- including the 6th-ranked ‘Castle Dracula’. So, which were the top 5 ranked conversions? In order (click on hyperlinks in titles to view the original posts): 1. Tyger (also most likes at 24) 2. Belcroute Bay 3. Goodbye, Mr Bond 4. Kanagawa-oki nami ura (also most downloads at 149) 5. Monumental Statue ‘Belcroute Bay’ at No.2 is somewhat gratifying, being a conversion of one of my own photos and therefore one of the minority that could be regarded as ‘all my own work’- apart from the routine nods to @ilmenit for authoring RastaConverter itself and @phaeron for optimising it. ‘Tyger’ and ‘Monumental Statue’ would also be among my personal favourites. Some that didn’t make the top 5 include (in no particular order): ‘White Rock’ (16th) and ‘Watchers By The Shore’ (13th) (early conversions of my own photographs) ‘Lonesome Road’ (81st) (my favourite greyscale conversion) ‘Ophelia’ (12th) My favourite portrait is Revée Walcott-Nolan (18th) and my award for ‘Most underrated conversion’ goes to ‘Panzer IV’ (120th) with an honourable mention to ‘Severinus the Herbalist’ (113th). Finally, the ‘Labour of love’ award goes to ‘Tutankhamun’ (38th), which was run with various tweaks 5 times over the course of a month, the final version involving over 3.5 billion iterations, a mask, and multiple minor manual edits to the screen kernel, player graphics and bitmap. For anyone inclined to peruse the entire ouvre, I attach a spreadsheet including hyperlinks to all the original posts, .png output images and .xex files along with their 'scores': Retrospective.xlsx 39.07 kB · 4 downloads no doubt 5) monumental statue by argentine artist Oscar Chichoni , designer of the robots of pacific rym 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) 23 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: @GravityWorm Nice one! What pallette did you use? Was the original source file's number of colours reduced prior to conversion? My workflow now looks like this: - I make some conversions - I wait some weeks to make my judgement better, then evaluate the conversions - I delete the worst ones and post the best ones here... So I do not remember what did I do. Edited April 22, 2022 by GravityWorm minor linguistic mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 19 hours ago, Mauro Rodriguez said: no doubt 5) monumental statue by argentine artist Oscar Chichoni , designer of the robots of pacific rym I absolutely agree. It's my number one here. Just awesome and wonderful. GOAT. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 On 4/22/2022 at 1:16 AM, Beeblebrox said: @GravityWorm Nice one! What pallette did you use? Was the original source file's number of colours reduced prior to conversion? Forgot to answer. I always use the palette: altirra.act. It was the only one with the Rastaconverter... I make screenshots using emulator called atari800, with settings shown in the attached image... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 @GravityWorm I also use the Altirra pallette nearly all of the time and these days on rare occasions the Atari800winplus pallette. If you download and install the GUI you get access to them all, (10 of them): If you only have one pallette and presumably you are just using the command line version of Rastaconverter I'd highly recommend you install the GUI. Or do you use the GUI but for some reason only have the one pallette available? I use masks nearly all the time now too btw. Man I love Rastaconverter!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 4 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: If you only have one pallette and presumably you are just using the command line version of Rastaconverter I'd highly recommend you install the GUI. Or do you use the GUI but for some reason only have the one pallette available? Why would I use different palettes? I try to get a result similar to the real machine. I do not need the GUI, also I do not use Windows... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Regarding palettes. Well it's like anything when it comes to this kind of image software... they are there to expand creativity and experiment should the user wish. Different palettes will yield different results and the authors of them created them for just that should users wish to experiment. Our mobile phone camera have many filters after all, Instagram too. With the 10 palettes available with RastaConverter for example, there is a Sepia type pallette, and another that suites the greys better if I recall. Laoo is the pallette that is supposedly the closest to real hardware if I am not mistaken but I find the results too washed out on real hardware, so I use Altirra most of the time, and have had some great results. Fair enough with the gui and not using Windows. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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