GravityWorm Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 On 8/14/2022 at 4:03 AM, Gunstar said: Thatched cottage. 86 colors. ThatchedCottage.xex 21.97 kB · 22 downloads Awesome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 On 8/1/2022 at 4:14 PM, amarok said: Rainbow Lorikeets, 82 colors. amarok_lorikeets.xex 22.04 kB · 34 downloads it would be top 3 for me, but I do not like the sky... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauro Rodriguez Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 Take That F.. VIC II !! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Mauro Rodriguez said: Take That F.. VIC II !! I take it that's a general reaction, very belated opinion, to the entire thread, and not that you think it was the Lorikeets image, and possibly Thatched Cottage, that was finally the one(s) that showed that darned VIC II? Edited September 14, 2022 by Gunstar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 Daleks Again! 63 colors. The "lines" across the image in the top and bottom thirds is from fold marks as the original image is a photo of a poster. GS_DaleksAgain.xex 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Half-timbered houses in Strasbourg. 47 colors. amarok_strasbourg.xex 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 14 hours ago, amarok said: Half-timbered houses in Strasbourg. 47 colors. amarok_strasbourg.xex 22.08 kB · 6 downloads gorgeous conversion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 23 hours ago, amarok said: Half-timbered houses in Strasbourg. 47 colors. amarok_strasbourg.xex 22.08 kB · 17 downloads Been there today and also visited the great cathedral. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) Since my Dalek images practically break the download counter, I thought I'd post another... Dalek Desert Corp. 44 colors. GS_DalekDesertCorp.xex Edited September 17, 2022 by Gunstar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 (edited) A Farewell to Kings. 77 colors. From the cover of the Rush album 'A Farewell to Kings.' GS_FarewelltoKings.xex I'm only posting this next image here because the two images are a pair, covers from two consecutive Rush albums that are a pair in themselves as a two-part song is spread across the end of one and the beginning of the next album. I keep getting the sprite clashing error in it though, and just fixing it isn't enough as there are areas not resolving correctly because of it (mainly the man's legs). I'm posting this one anyway, but I am redoing it again to to hopefully better results and no error. Hemispheres. 53 colors. From the Rush album Hemispheres. GS_Hemispheres.xex Edited September 19, 2022 by Gunstar 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 On 9/14/2022 at 3:38 PM, GravityWorm said: it would be top 3 for me, but I do not like the sky... I agree, the sky does not fit the rest of the image at all. So I decided to prepare an alternative version where the sky is completely flat. It is worth to mention that I didn't run the conversion again. Instead of that I modified the previous result of conversion by editing the MIC, PMG data and raster program by hand. It took me couple of hours to do it but I think that the final result is quite good taking into account that I do not have such skills like RastaConverter has. amarok_lorikeets_v2.xex 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 5 hours ago, amarok said: I agree, the sky does not fit the rest of the image at all. So I decided to prepare an alternative version where the sky is completely flat. It is worth to mention that I didn't run the conversion again. Instead of that I modified the previous result of conversion by editing the MIC, PMG data and raster program by hand. It took me couple of hours to do it but I think that the final result is quite good taking into account that I do not have such skills like RastaConverter has I like your final result with the sanitised background. Sounds like a lot of work though. What I do in such situations is save my current conversion. Then I find the output png file and clean that up to what I want it to be. Then I feed that back into Rastaconverter again and it will get a result much, much quicker than the first time around. If you have the foresight beforehand, you can use background removal tools online. I don't see why we should waste colour changes for a background that nobody is interested in, keep it for the main focus of the image. Some see it as cheating, but I just want the best quality image possible, however it is achieved as I am not in a competition with anyone else, only myself. Lovely image by the way, one of the best on here. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 (edited) I think that we all can agree that RastaConverter is an unique and a powerful tool. It gives us the ability to create images at such a high technical level that was unimaginable in the 1980s. For me, working with RC is a constant challenge to break the limits of the capabilities of Atari 8-bit computers. On the other hand it gives me a chance to bring some eye-catching and aestetic content to the computer from my childhood. Today I would like to show you something that I have been working on for a long time. At first I spend some time for searching for good looking nature-oriented photos. After that I performed rough adjustment and conversion of every image which met my expectations. In the next step I cropped the most interesting parts from each picture and combined them into the mosaic. Then I performed some conversion attempts using RastaConverter and picked up the most satisfying result. At the end I fixed raster program to remove artifacts caused by self-overlapping players and voilà! The image contains 53 unique colors. I hope you like it. amarok_nature.xex Edited September 23, 2022 by amarok 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Gorgeous. Nice image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pajero_pn Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 On 9/17/2022 at 12:02 AM, amarok said: Half-timbered houses in Strasbourg. 47 colors. amarok_strasbourg.xex 22.08 kB · 29 downloads and on the other side of the river in winter https://demozoo.org/graphics/195209/ 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Been a while since I posted one. I was reminded that I hadn't yet benchmarked Rasta Convertor on my new rig. I made a second attempt at an image. It managed 4 million iterations in about 77 minutes which isn't too shabby. I saw some peaks of 166,000 iterations per second, this conversion averaged 87,218 per second. PAL palette since my daily drivers are. Altirra screen cap. There's one damn white line that needs repaired low in the image. Stephen_Scarlette_SecondConversion.xex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauro Rodriguez Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 Poor Convertion 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Mauro Rodriguez said: Poor Convertion Please post a better one then. The world could all use another image of Scarlett Johansson. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 7 hours ago, Stephen said: It managed 4 million iterations 400 million! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 7 hours ago, Stephen said: There's one damn white line that needs repaired low in the image. Happy to oblige. You should give @Sheddy's automated artefact repair tool (included with RastaSlide) a spin. It made sorting this one barely an inconvenience! Stephen_Scarlette_SecondConversion_fixed.xex 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 I use Sheddy's error removal tool all the time. Dead easy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Caribbean Blue 50 colours. drpeter_CaribbeanBlue.xex 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 44 minutes ago, drpeter said: Caribbean Blue 50 colours. drpeter_CaribbeanBlue.xex 22.05 kB · 1 download Nice. Wish I was there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpeter Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Morten Harket Lead vocalist of 80s Norwegian synth-rock band a-ha Here, performing in 2017 for MTV Unplugged Summer Solstice Original chart-topping (and multi-award-winning video) version here 36 colours drpeter_Morten.xex 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarok Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Oberhofen castle tower, Switzerland. 40 colors. amarok_oberhofen.xex 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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