thealgorithm Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 The image conversions are looking very very promising. Congratulations on a great job ilmenit. Rather than using a mask, have you considered allowing the user to lassoo over the image sections selecting the 'importance' within the converter. This would make it a far quicker process instead of creating masks, etc You may be doing this already, but are you using assembly code to compare source and destination images (there are some mmx/sse opcodes that can greatly speed up the comparison of multiple pixels and calculate the 'error' eg psadbw opcode, although mainly only simple distance rather than more optimal difference calculations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenit Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 (edited) I do not write the GUI for this converter because I find this kind of programming too boring There is however a GUI written by Larek. If he decides that the detail mask should be editable from it then we may expect it in the future. However I prefer to use any other GFX program to do that. With freeware Paint.Net you can create a mask in 15 seconds (load a image, make a lasso selection, add a new layer, fill the selection with the white color and the inversion with black, save the picture with flattening). PSADBW is great, but the colour distance for each pixel to Atari palette is already precalculated. so this is not a bottleneck. The slowest part is execution of generated 6502 code and ANTIC emulation, which is quite slow trying to emulate sprites properly. It is optimized by caching already (phaeron patches) so probably the best way to speed it up is to use some paralelizm. Edited August 21, 2012 by ilmenit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Some older project with v.4... now finished at 2000mil. emkay_wolv2000.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Oh god those horrid C64 colors again. Some people just never learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allas Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 I did a video with the best pictures as i think. If you like the video, will be a good idea share on your contacts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJwKp5APOG8 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 kewl video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) Oh god those horrid C64 colors again. Some people just never learn. You could do yourself a favor. Stand in front of a mirror, look at it. Then yell as loud as you can "Some people just never learn." . Possibly you will hear it. 1. You're not even able to follow the thread 2. The Picture isn't real C64 , because it has been an interlaced picture in the original, and I wanted to check, how it looks with Rastaconverter and without interlace... 3. It's guys like you who kill the threads always with dumb personal attacks. emkay_vogel800.xex Edited August 23, 2012 by emkay 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 ... 3. It's guys like you who kill the threads always with dumb personal attacks. ... Maybe guys like ZylonBane can be banned. I never saw any constructive posts by him. (Did anyone else do?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvas Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 ... 3. It's guys like you who kill the threads always with dumb personal attacks. ... Maybe guys like ZylonBane can be banned. I never saw any constructive posts by him. (Did anyone else do?) I reported his posts to the moderator several time, but nothing happened ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 3. It's guys like you who kill the threads always with dumb personal attacks. No need for me to make the converter look bad. Ilmenit tries the best himself to do so. Hey guys, here's something to try converting: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 3. It's guys like you who kill the threads always with dumb personal attacks. No need for me to make the converter look bad. Ilmenit tries the best himself to do so. Hey guys, here's something to try converting: Now I understand. Your brain is working mechanically. This excuses very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 I did a video with the best pictures as i think. If you like the video, will be a good idea share on your contacts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJwKp5APOG8 Nice video Mario. You should edit Youtube's description. Those images are not made with G2F but with Rastaconverter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenit Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 A few pics from Amiga. Could be better. All of them after 500M steps. ilmenit_heimdall.xex ilmenit_lotr1.xex ilmenit_lotr2.xex 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 these Amiga pics kick ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastRobPlus Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I would love to see one of the Magnetic Scrolls games reworked to use these images. (Sorry - I'll post an image before I post again...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 My latest. Original: Rasta (at only 33 mill evals): synthpopalooza-alfa_kentauri.xex 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caterpiggle Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 May I speak to you (FastRobPlus) in private messages ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenit Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 (edited) Two pictures with a new dithering type that will be available in the next version. Both were created with a details mask set. ilmenit_amberstar.xex ilmenit_house.xex Edited August 27, 2012 by ilmenit 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Wow - those are great! Can't wit to try new version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Cool. That "new" dither methode is acting more on the limits of the A8, resulting in a line dither with a vertical dither order, supporting the details of an image more. Nice to see it done. But why did I get namecalled "liar" when proposing that? ... hmmm.... emkay_maid.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billkendrick Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I tried doing Hugh Laurie again, but it wasn't coming out so well. I probably don't know the best settings to use. Someone wanna take a stab at http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Editorial/100809/Best_Class_Hugh_Laurie/emmy-hugh-laurie-blackadder1.jpg ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthpopalooza Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I usually start with 2d or knoll dither, laoo palette, 10000 solutions, that seems to do the trick for me. Also may help if you use GIMP to reduce the image to the 128 atari colors beforehand, with some dithering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frogstar_robot Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 3. It's guys like you who kill the threads always with dumb personal attacks. No need for me to make the converter look bad. Ilmenit tries the best himself to do so. Hey guys, here's something to try converting: frogstar_robot_oh_noes.xex 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JAC! Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 @frogstar: Please also always post the number of evals .... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 (edited) Original JPG pre-processed for size/colours, run for ~480M evals using /i=maiden6.png /pal=altirra /dither=none /h=200 /s=2000 /init=smart Wrathchild-EddieBass.xex Edited August 28, 2012 by Wrathchild 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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