Beeblebrox Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 (edited) @GravityWorm yup all of these images I am currently posting are essentially ones I did in the Spring and Summer which at the time I wasn't happy to post on the thread as each had some issue, or generally I was being too picky. I've since revisited them and realised some aren't too bad and for one reason or another decided to post them. I usually highlight any imperfections when I post each one as you can see. They nearly always have some redeeming features. Edited November 18, 2021 by Beeblebrox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 GravityWorm_lemon01.xex 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 GravityWorm_train01.xex 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Another from July this year which I ran on and off lots of times and then forgot about until now. This one was a loooong run. In fact I ran it again for another 8hrs today. Quite fitting as this one is in keeping with the gold theme of recent posts. Gal Gadot as Wonderwoman, (Gal Gadot being IMHO one of the most beautiful women on the planet) The hair isn't great with lots of issues and there are imperfections and minor banding throughout. Face is quite washed out. However I love the gold and some of the definition/ridges in the metal armour has come out well. (I may try and re-run this from scratch with a tweaked source file, atari800winplus pallette and a few other setting changes in future.) Altirra pallette, Yuv colour dist, 10000 solutions, no dithering. 2.36 billion evaluations 24 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_wonderwomangoldcropsmincomplete8.xex Beeblebrox_wonderwomangoldcropsmincomplete8.xex Here is the live conversion snapshot so you can see the details, source image,etc: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 31 colors GravityWorm_boat01.xex 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 (edited) Another May conversion which ran for ages - I think it was one of the first I did and which I'd run for such a long time. I was trying to work the banding out of the image and also get the mouth to define during the process and it never did. Quiet a few banding issues especially on the neck, ear and lower parts of the hair annoyingly. Nice blues and greens and skin tones, and a good amount of colours though. I really like the detail in the hair in places and her eye. I only had 5000 solutions set which was probably half the issue. A character for the anime Sword art online. Altirra pallette, Yuv colour dist, 5000 solutions, mild jarvis dithering. 2.9 billion evaluations 71 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_SAObluegirlincomplete12xex Beeblebrox_SAObluegirlincomplete12.xex Edited November 19, 2021 by Beeblebrox 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 3 hours ago, GravityWorm said: 31 colors GravityWorm_boat01.xex 21.99 kB · 6 downloads Damn these look good on CRT! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Stephen said: Damn these look good on CRT! @Stephen I'd love to see some pics of the images we've all been recently posting being displayed on your CRT if you have the time Edited November 19, 2021 by Beeblebrox typos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 2 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: @Stephen I'd love to see some pics of the images we've all been recently posting being displayed on your CRT if you have the time I will borrow the wife's nice digital camera, as my phone is utterly useless - I've tried multiple times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Stephen said: I will borrow the wife's nice digital camera, as my phone is utterly useless - I've tried multiple times. @Stephen that would be great. FYI there was some advice a couple of weeks ago on this thread post here about taking pics of CRT screens which you prob read but just in case not, it might help. Edited November 19, 2021 by Beeblebrox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 30 minutes ago, Beeblebrox said: @Stephen that would be great. FYI there was some advice a couple of weeks ago on this thread post here about taking pics of CRT screens which you prob read but just in case not, it might help. Definitely - this is why I need to use her proper digital camera. The camera in my phone is shit and not really adjustable. I'll make sure to get some images posted. I'm re-arranging some stuff in my office, I figure it will look better on the 20" screen rather than the little 8". I can also better control reflections from the CRT in that room. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 (edited) This one I ran a long time on and off throughout spring and summer and it never quite worked out. But I loved the colours in it. Lots of issues, big banding problems, line errors, plus in hindsight I shouldn't have used dithering in this one, it's not helped on the skin tones. Think I was being too ambitious overall. (Not the first time that's been the case in the early days) I really wasn't gonna post this one up because of all of this - but I spent so long on it, seems a shame to just have it sitting in a folder. Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy Altirra pallette, Ceide colour dist, 10000 solutions 1.33 billion evaluations 77 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_Gamora2smincomplete34.xex Beeblebrox_Gamora2smincomplete34.xex Edited November 19, 2021 by Beeblebrox 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 (edited) I am a big fan of the PC game No Man's Sky. I loved this particular poster image and had a go at converting it earlier this year. Turned out nicely and believe it or not the poster colours were pretty much translated. Just a few errors and the space ship definition didn't quite stand out as much as I'd like. I was going to resume this to see if I could push it some more, but decided to stop here. Altirra Pallette, yuv colour distance, 10000 solutions, no dithering 214 million evaluations, 71 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_NMSwallpapersmincomplete6.xex Beeblebrox_NMSwallpapersmincomplete6.xex Edited November 19, 2021 by Beeblebrox 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 @Stephen Btw back in May @Philsan kindly posted some photos of a few of my conversions displayed on his excellent CRT. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
800XLNZ Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Good images. Wish there was a securely updateable repository for all RastaConverter images, accessible to all registered AtariAge members. Dreams are free. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 2 hours ago, 800XLNZ said: Good images. Wish there was a securely updateable repository for all RastaConverter images, accessible to all registered AtariAge members. Dreams are free. @800XLNZ If you search a few posts back there is talk of a backup repository in recent months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GravityWorm Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) 22 hours ago, Stephen said: Damn these look good on CRT! That is my goal. When I make images, that I post here, I imagine how they wold look on a an real Atari with an CRT screen. I never had an real 8 bit Atari so I started to getting heavily interested in 8 bit Atari few years, when I watched some YT video showing that even now people develop new ways to unlock potential of those machines. Edited November 20, 2021 by GravityWorm some words added to make sentences more understandable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, GravityWorm said: That is my goal. When I make images, that I post here, I imagine how they wold look on a an real Atari with an CRT screen. I never had an real 8 bit Atari so I started to getting heavily interested in 8 bit Atari few years, when I watched some YT video showing that even now people develop new ways to unlock potential of those machines. @GravityWorm ah so are you planning on getting an A8 and a CRT then? Emulators like Altirra are amazing but owning the real thing - nothing quite like it! I've gone a lil overboard and have quite a few A8s now but I grew up with them. Fav is the 800XL but I love the XE design and recently the 600XL and 800. Edited November 20, 2021 by Beeblebrox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 This one was just a bit of fun, what with me being a big Simpsons fan. Ran on and off since spring in the hope the imperfections would work their way out. A few banding errors and not perfect. Should have started with higher solutions. Still, I like it. Altirra, Yuv colour dist, 8192 solutions, no dithering 1.01 billions evaluations 64 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_simpsonsmoebarincomplete8.xex Beeblebrox_simpsonsmoebarincomplete8.xex 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 20, 2021 Share Posted November 20, 2021 Colours 42, evals 42, time running 42mins, attempts at getting it right 42, number of hairs left on head 42!............ok, kidding (fans of HHGTTG will get this one). Atari800winplus pallette, ceide colour dist, 612 solutions, no dithering 33 millions evaluations 61 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_Babelfishsmincomplete2.xex Beeblebrox_Babelfishsmincomplete2.xex 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
55five66six Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Seems like the average file size is around 22k. Does anyone know the breakdown as far as how much of the filesize is the viewing application vs the converted image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 RC generates a kernal that does the colour changes - a fair bit of it is consecutive NOPs so it's not real big on efficiency re saving memory. Possibly some saving could be had by changing some of them to instructions that use less memory but have the same delay effect. The remainder aside from the screen data, I'd guess probably not much. Unsure if the display list is hardcoded or programatically generated but that's a few hundred bytes at most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 (edited) 15 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: This one was just a bit of fun, what with me being a big Simpsons fan. Ran on and off since spring in the hope the imperfections would work their way out. A few banding errors and not perfect. Should have started with higher solutions. Still, I like it. Altirra, Yuv colour dist, 8192 solutions, no dithering 1.01 billions evaluations 64 unique colours Filename: Beeblebrox_simpsonsmoebarincomplete8.xex Beeblebrox_simpsonsmoebarincomplete8.xex 22.14 kB · 3 downloads What made you decide to pick 8192 resolutions? I ask because that is what I consider my "sweet spot" number of evals and the number I've used on every image I've converted for about the past 3 years! Also, it just so happens that 42 (pick exactly because it from HHGTTG) for the first couple dozen pictures I ever converted, before I realized how important more evaluations were hell, the default is set at one, so I thought 42 was pretty high at the time and hoped it would bring me luck. They weren't too bad of images though! Edited November 21, 2021 by Gunstar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Just now, Gunstar said: What made you decide to pick 8192 resolutions? I ask because that is what I consider my "sweet spot" number of evals and the number I've used on every image I've converted for about the past 3 years! @Gunstar Yup it was reading your posts back in the spring/summer which is where I initially probably got that number for at the time. Hey, so you got any juicy images cooking for us? Always look forward to your image posts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 I edited my post above while you responded @Beeblebrox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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