The black and white has a nice aesthetic to it that works quite well
with these images. Regardless of whether it was a forced decision or
an aesthetic one.

2010/1/26 Bjørn Magnhildøen <[email protected]>:
> yes the scripts grab a b/w picture with a transparent background.
> the original doodles are in color but i reduced them before putting
> them i the doodle library.
> for example http://noemata.net/germinal/sdlfhgkj/199-3-1=isocherbset.jpg
> http://noemata.net/germinal/sdlfhgkj/199-5=ldromaaps.jpg
> http://noemata.net/germinal/ksfdaoiu/199-111=LSJ.jpg
> with an unreduced color image i wasn't able to superimpose. one could
> try though to reduce to 2-5 colors and from that generate color
> doodles. i haven't come that far yet but it's possible.
>
> bjørn
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Pall Thayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So the images are in color when you start?
>>
>> 2010/1/26 Bjørn Magnhildøen <[email protected]>:
>>> you're right that's needed.
>>>
>>> for offline development i use the XAMPP distribution of apache server,
>>> php, which includes GD and other support by default. online you have
>>> to check or ask if your host has it installed
>>> also, for the generation i load source images into an array.
>>> my source images, doodles, are in the folders
>>> http://noemata.net/time().mt_rand/larding-data/goy/
>>> http://noemata.net/time().mt_rand/larding-data/goy2/
>>> http://noemata.net/time().mt_rand/larding-data/goy3/
>>> (they are b/w renderings of http://noemata.net/germinal/ )
>>> - bjørn
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM, dave miller <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> to make this work do you ned to have GD library installed in php?
>>>> dave
>>>>
>>>> 2010/1/26 Bjørn Magnhildøen <[email protected]>
>>>>>
>>>>> it's mostly done by iterations of superimposing b/w images with a
>>>>> transparent background.
>>>>> see core code below. i'm using php so the generation is also done
>>>>> online, as 'larding' - line-stretching. some effects come from php's
>>>>> inability to handle transparent images, ie. i have to use some
>>>>> imagefill function ('paint bucket') to fill it with a transparent
>>>>> color, which has the effect also of erasing lines (if you hit fill on
>>>>> the wrong pixel, black instead of white) as seen clearly in the more
>>>>> complex drawings, which has up to thousand iterations.
>>>>> i'll put the code in the gallery somewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> <?php
>>>>> /*
>>>>> $new_image = image resource identifier such as returned by
>>>>> imagecreatetruecolor(). must be passed by reference
>>>>> $image_source = image resource identifier returned by
>>>>> imagecreatefromjpeg, imagecreatefromgif and imagecreatefrompng. must
>>>>> be passed by reference
>>>>> */
>>>>> function setTransparency($new_image,$image_source)
>>>>>    {
>>>>>        global $im, $im2;
>>>>>
>>>>>            $transparencyIndex = imagecolortransparent($image_source);
>>>>>            $transparencyColor = array('red' => 255, 'green' => 255,
>>>>> 'blue' => 255);
>>>>>
>>>>>            if ($transparencyIndex >= 0) {
>>>>>                $transparencyColor    =
>>>>> imagecolorsforindex($image_source, $transparencyIndex);
>>>>>            }
>>>>>
>>>>>            $transparencyIndex    = imagecolorallocate($new_image,
>>>>> $transparencyColor['red'], $transparencyColor['green'],
>>>>> $transparencyColor['blue']);
>>>>>            imagefill($new_image, 0, 0, $transparencyIndex);
>>>>>             imagecolortransparent($new_image, $transparencyIndex);
>>>>>
>>>>>    }
>>>>>
>>>>> function myimagefill($im, $x, $y, $color) {
>>>>>        while ($i++ < 100 and $j < 10) {
>>>>>                $x2 = mt_rand(0,$x);
>>>>>                $y2 = mt_rand(0,$y);
>>>>>                $rgb = imagecolorat($im, $x2, $y2);
>>>>>                $r = ($rgb >> 16) & 0xFF;
>>>>>                $g = ($rgb >> 8) & 0xFF;
>>>>>                $b = $rgb & 0xFF;
>>>>> //              if ($r == 0 and $g == 0 and $b == 2) {
>>>>>                        imagefill($im, $x2, $y2, $color);
>>>>> //                      $j++;
>>>>> //              }
>>>>>        }
>>>>>        return $im;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> function myprocess() {
>>>>>        global $im, $im2, $png, $i, $x, $y;
>>>>>        $cf = trim($png[mt_rand(0,sizeof($png)-1)]);
>>>>>        $im2 = imagecreatefrompng($cf);
>>>>>        $white = imagecolorallocate($im2, 255, 255, 255);
>>>>>        imagecolortransparent($im2, $white);
>>>>>        $im2size = getimagesize($cf);
>>>>>        $x2 = $im2size[0];
>>>>>        $y2 = $im2size[1];
>>>>>        if ($x2 < 150 or $y2 < 150) return;
>>>>>        $x3 = mt_rand(0,$x+$x2);
>>>>>        $y3 = mt_rand(0,$y+$y2);
>>>>>        $x4 = $x3 - $x2;
>>>>>        $y4 = $y3 - $y2;
>>>>>        imagefill($im2, 0, 0, $white);
>>>>>        $im2 = myimagefill($im2, $x2, $y2, $white);
>>>>>        imagecolortransparent($im2, $white);
>>>>>        setTransparency($im2, $im); //original
>>>>>        imagecopymerge($im, $im2, $x4, $y4, 0, 0, $x2, $y2, 100);
>>>>>        imagedestroy($im2);
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> function makepng() {
>>>>>        global $i, $im,$x,$y,$loops,$navn,$png;
>>>>>        $im = imagecreatetruecolor($x,$y);
>>>>>        $white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
>>>>>        imagecolortransparent($im, $white);
>>>>>   for ($i=0;$i<=$loops;$i++) {
>>>>>        myprocess();
>>>>>        imagecolortransparent($im, $white);
>>>>>   }
>>>>>   $navn = "larding-data/tmp.png";
>>>>>   imagepng($im, $navn);
>>>>>   imagedestroy($im);
>>>>> }
>>>>> ?>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Pall Thayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> > You should post the scripts somewhere.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Pall
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 2010/1/26 Bjørn Magnhildøen <[email protected]>:
>>>>> >> the material is originally hand scribbled, and then processed through
>>>>> >> scripts.
>>>>> >> i wanted to code a doodle machine in the beginning but couldn't get it
>>>>> >> to do anything interesting (in my view), so i tried doing it via real
>>>>> >> doodles instead and building up from those as patterns.
>>>>> >> thanks, bjørn
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM, dave miller
>>>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> >>> these are great - are the drawings generated by code? or hand
>>>>> >>> scribbled?
>>>>> >>> dave
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> 2010/1/26 <[email protected]>
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