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[Philsan]

It would be nice to have a thread completely dedicated to the beautiful images generated by the awesome converter made by Jakub "ilmenit".
That tool really gave colors, once reserved to the classes, to the masses.

Original image (optional), converted image preview, Atari .xex file (filenames format: "Author's name_imagename" to keep Kaz atarionline.pl's format).

Posts without images are not allowed!

Feel free to post images already posted in the Quantizator WIP thread that you're proud of!

I start with the machine that makes all this (fun) possible.

 Philsan_Atari800XL.xex   21.99K   148 downloads

[MrFish]

I would suggest posting "number of evaluations" too.

[JohnBuell]

Also, how about quick links to the download source and a usage guide/tutorial?

[frogstar_robot]

Stare at the center of it.

Attached Files

•  purple_nurple.xex   22.32K   108 downloads

Edited by frogstar_robot, Mon Jul 9, 2012 6:48 PM.

[frogstar_robot]

Another bit of perceptual evil

Attached Files

•  sakuras2b.xex   22.28K   102 downloads

[frogstar_robot]

original after being converted to a 256 color laoo indexed pallette in GIMP and resized to 320x240.


Output around 4M evaluations :  ./rastaconv pegasus006.png /filter=box /pal=Palettes/laoo.act

Attached Files

•  cliff.xex   22.25K   124 downloads

Edited by frogstar_robot, Mon Jul 9, 2012 9:24 PM.

[Rybags]

The canyon looks pretty good but is suffering due to the closeness of the original luma's.

Those eye trick ones... they look like they're 4 colour to begin with, so what's the point?

[frogstar_robot]

Rybags, on Mon Jul 9, 2012 9:31 PM, said:

The canyon looks pretty good but is suffering due to the closeness of the original luma's.

Those eye trick ones... they look like they're 4 colour to begin with, so what's the point?

Heck of it.

[Philsan]

The purpose of this topic is to have a place to show people Atari graphic capabilities and display our best conversions.
In my opinion, tests or tips for Jakub should be posted in Quantizator thread.
Instead of replies, please use "Like this" buttons (unless you want to reply with a picture!).
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

To obey my own rule ("posts without images are not allowed!"), I post again my Giger's Alien conversion (original, converted, .xex).
Please follow filenames rule: "Author's name_imagename".

 Philsan_Alien.xex   21.95K   111 downloads

[snicklin]

Original


Converted with 100M evaluations


XEX:
 snicklin_xc12.xex   17.16K   111 downloads

[Gury]

Fantastic tool... I had to try it. Picture proportions are not the same, but anyway.

Original:


Converted with 39,6M evaluations


Atari executable file (XEX):
 fj_scary.xex   18.68K   97 downloads

Edited by Gury, Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:46 AM.

[ilmenit]

Large collection of my conversions

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•  ilmenit-aftermath.xex   21.96K   100 downloads
•  ilmenit-ancient.xex   21.78K   98 downloads
•  ilmenit-autumn-new.xex   22.08K   110 downloads
•  ilmenit-breath.xex   22.11K   88 downloads
•  ilmenit-bunny.xex   22.11K   97 downloads
•  ilmenit-dawn-scanlines.xex   21.91K   93 downloads
•  ilmenit-desert.xex   22.09K   93 downloads
•  ilmenit-dragon.xex   22.08K   95 downloads
•  ilmenit-elmore.xex   22.09K   94 downloads
•  ilmenit-fairey_wood.xex   22.01K   98 downloads
•  ilmenit-fall.xex   22.06K   95 downloads
•  ilmenit-goater.xex   22.06K   92 downloads
•  ilmenit-hendrix.xex   22.09K   102 downloads
•  ilmenit-landscape.xex   22.03K   90 downloads
•  ilmenit-lonely-new.xex   22.07K   96 downloads
•  ilmenit-metal.xex   22.09K   97 downloads
•  ilmenit-smugglers.xex   22.05K   76 downloads
•  ilmenit-snow_woods.xex   22.03K   86 downloads
•  ilmenit-stones.xex   21.93K   83 downloads
•  ilmenit-swamp_castle.xex   21.98K   78 downloads
•  ilmenit-tavern.xex   22.1K   75 downloads
•  ilmenit-waterfall.xex   22.17K   83 downloads
•  ilmenit-winter.xex   22.07K   82 downloads
•  ilmenit-winter_castle.xex   22.1K   81 downloads
•  ilmenit-winter2.xex   21.99K   83 downloads
•  ilmenit-winter-beauty.xex   19.62K   89 downloads
•  all.zip   408.13K   122 downloads

[analmux]

@ Ilmenit, thanks again for these awesome pics!!!

[Kaz atarionline.pl]

Ilmenit - incredible!!!!

[Stephen]

Amazing work Ilmenit.

[emkay]

ilmenit, on Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:22 AM, said:

Large collection of my conversions

In "thumbnail" , they all look good.

In "fullscreen" things get real.

Following Picture look "really" good, because colourisation fits to the image and Banding is very low  :

Aftermath
Ancient
Autumn-New
Dawn-Scanlines (this one gives a regular distortion to the image, so banding doesn't disturb)
Fairey Wood
Landscape
Lonely-New
Smugglers
Snow__Woods
Stones
Tavern
Waterfall
Winter
Winter-Castle

[emkay]

 Katze.xex   18.58K   97 downloads

This picture was most interesting to me just for the cat and the innocent look into the scene.
I think , It got captured well, with the A8's "real" brightness values.

[Kaz atarionline.pl]

I hope that nice graphics user interface will help us to make more experiments and create better pictures. Arek Lubaszka aka ArSoft aka Larek has prepared "RC GUI" for us:

http://atarionline.p...at=1&ct=nowinki



Steps:
1. Depack RCGUI0013.7z in folder where you keep RastaConverter.exe file.
2. Run RCGUI.exe.
3. Enjoy.

(remember that pictures to load have to be in the same folder)

[emkay]

I allowed myself to make another "Alien" adaption.


 gigerbw.xex   21.95K   66 downloads

And made a different light to it....


 gigercol.xex   21.96K   69 downloads


If if is possible to have the colours indexed, Palette-Animations still could be possible...

example:

[Philsan]

Mario, why don't you post your .xex using the filename format "Autor's name_Image name"?

[emkay]

Philsan, on Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:01 PM, said:

Mario, why don't you post your .xex using the filename format "Autor's name_Image name"?

Good question

Next ones get the name ...

[Stephen]

I hope to post my 1st this evening.  I spent an hour removing dithering from the original.  It's currently at 3.4 million evals, and there are only really 3 bands in the picture that need to go away.

Apologies for not knowing the original author - go to http://www.theman-ca...lraiser-on.html to see the original.

Edited version:


Rasta Convertor: (Laoo palette, no dither, random initial, YUV colour space, 10 million evaluations)


I think this could be much better if I was to cut the logo.  The Atari can do kick ass logos due to the DLI nature of the machine.  Let the top portion of the screen be a nice shaded logo, and use all the resources for the remainder of the screen to display the picture.

[Stephen]

Keeping with the Hellraiser theme (and the unknown authors):

Source image (converted in Photoshop to indexed (laoo) palette 1st):


Rasta (2.5 million evals, laoo palette, knoll dithering, smart initial state, yuv colour distance):


Next post will be just pinhead, without the Hellraiser logo

[Stephen]

Source : (same as above - laoo 256 colour palette, no dithering)


Rasta (no dither, smart initial, yuv colour space, 10 million evals)


Rasta (altirra palette, knoll dither, 20 million evals)

[Stephen]

Now some of my all time favourites - although sad.  They are from the troubled artist Louis Wain (google him if you are not familiar).  I hope if I go off the deep end that I end up in a happier place than this poor soul did.  Anyhow - here are my 1st attempts at his cats (I am redoing #3 with a details mask.  I will let the machine run as long as it needs to in order to eliminate the banding).  I have two machines running image #3 over night (both do around 4 thousand evals per second).  One is doing knoll dithering laoo palette, the other is chess dithering with altirra palette.  So far, neither is looking very promising.

Details are in the filenames.


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Post edited with new version of cat#3.  I think this one is just too much for the little Atari to render.