Monthly Archives: June 2013

Dithering with colours

Posted on June 30, 2013 by

I had some time this evening after a day out to put together a new dithering method for coloured pictures. Partial results below: Again it appears that the brightness of the original image affects the result heavily, including the not … Continue reading →

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Post pixeling thoughts

Posted on June 29, 2013 by

After my brief but ongoing experience with pixeling, I thought to write some code around dithering specifically for the C64. I started with B/W pictures, but I look forward to enter the coloured picture arena 🙂 The one below is … Continue reading →

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Integrator 2012: Adding foreground definitions

Posted on June 29, 2013 by

I had some time today to add two new options to Integrator 2012: one for detaching the foreground from a location, and one to create a new foreground At the same time I have done some maintenance of the code … Continue reading →

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Integrator 2012: object grabber fully integrated

Posted on June 28, 2013 by

I’ve done some work on the integration of the object grabber into I2012 and it all works nicely as it should 🙂 I’ve also spent some time pixellating after work, with the results as per below: I think I need … Continue reading →

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D64 browser: zoom

Posted on June 27, 2013 by

As with other tools of mine, I decided to let users select the font size in D64 browser too 🙂

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Integrator 2012: D64 browser sub tool ready!

Posted on June 26, 2013 by

Using my own libd64fs I managed to finish the D64 browser that I plan to embed in Integrator 2012 and a few other apps in the long term. Libd64fs provides D64 read and write support, which means more crazy stuff … Continue reading →

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A bit of pixeling again

Posted on June 25, 2013 by

I started from a different model, in order to include some more details at the edges and I think I like the new start 🙂 The picture also gives me more room for writing some info at the bottom, so … Continue reading →

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Libd64fs: example application

Posted on June 24, 2013 by

After work today I thought to leverage the libd64fs library in order to get started with a D64 file browser. I intend to integrate the browser in other tools (e.g. Integrator 2012), where I will enable reading files directly from … Continue reading →

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Some more pixeling

Posted on June 23, 2013 by

I am not sure where this is going to get me, but it’s a nice experience all in all 🙂

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Pixeling a bit

Posted on June 23, 2013 by

I haven’t had much success with graphicians interested in helping, so I have started a little bit of pixeling myself, using a brute conversion as starting point. So far I’ve only managed to pixelate the eye balls. We shall see … Continue reading →

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