What is Picture to People ?

"Picture to People" (P2P) is a huge Computer Graphics project. It was started to create new softwares able to make 2D drawing, 3D rendering, vexel drawing, text effects, photo effects, image filtering and other complex Computer Graphics operations. It has been made from scratch, including its low level Computer Graphics libraries like Maccala. Nowadays, most final features produced for this project are released as free online tools available from its official website. This blog talks about Computer Graphics, mainly concerning Picture to People development.

"Only who makes has true knowledge. Knowledge is control. True power depends on total control. Only who makes from scratch has the real power."

Friday, June 12, 2009

Vexel drawings from photos: example 7

Yet another vector based drawing made using my artistic vexel renderer to compare with the previous ones.


If you have a look at all examples I published, you can see each one has particular features.


Have a try by yourself in Picture to People site, at the "Art Vexels" menu item.



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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Vexel drawings from photos: example 6

Here you see the next output from the "artistic vexel drawings" series.

It's not so funny always use the same input photo, but it's interesting to compare how the results can be different depending on how you configure the renderer.

I hope you are already convinced this tool is flexible, but anyway I wanna show some examples yet.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Vexel drawings from photos: example 5

Yet another vector based drawing made using Picture to People artistic vexel renderer.

Once more, I try to show you how this renderer can generate a large variety of nice and unusual images starting from photos.

This tool is already online in P2P official website. It's the "Art Vexels" item at left side main menu.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Vexel drawings from photos: example 4

Now I show you a forth example of Picture to People artistic vexel drawings.

As always, the input was the same photo. For each new example, I try to show a result with nice differences compared to the last one.

This tool has so many configuration options that its use is not obvious.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Vexel drawings from photos: example 3

Here you see one more result from Picture to People artistic vexel renderer.

As promised, I have used the same input image. The original photo can be seen two posts below.

As you can see, my vexel drawing library has a good level of configuration, so user can get different stylistic pieces of art from photos.

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Monday, May 4, 2009

Vexel drawings from photos: example 2

As promised, for a while I will publish here several vexel drawing examples made using my vexel libraries. So you will be able to have a good idea about the power of a parameterized vexel renderer.

To favor a comparative viewing, I will use always the same input photo. Emphasis is about artistic and innovative outputs. Keep in mind that some results can be not so good for some kinds of images and very useful for other ones.

Below you can see the second vexel based result. The original image is showed in the previous post.

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Vexel drawings from photos: example 1

Now my artistic vexel renderer is finished and very powerful.

As I desired, it's very configurable and let you get many different results. I have extended it to tackle RGB photos and generate colorful outputs.

For a while, I will post here some examples of vexel based drawings made with this renderer, one by one.

Since the idea is let you compare the several different results, I will always use the same input image.

Below you can see the input photo and the first example of vexel drawing.

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

More vexel drawing

I'm still working on my new artistic vexel rendering algorithm. I will take some more time to get it ready to use.

It's probably one of the more complex Computer Graphics algorithms I have created. I'm trying to make it with some interesting freedom degrees.

Here you can see another example of this technique in action.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

New vexel rendering researches

Since some time ago, I create new math models and algorithms to vexel rendering. I make researches trying to discover new and innovative automatic ways to draw based on photos.

I'm inventing a powerful and versatile infra-structure that will let me to make very different, beautiful and mainly artistic drawings according to informations collected from photographies.

Here I show a preliminar result about my new researches. First you see a photo and after a vexel drawing based on this photo.

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Vexel Drawings

Picture to People project proudly annouces the release of a vexel renderer.

Using your photos as input you can get nice "vexel made" drawings. While trying to keep all important informations of the original image, this kind of effect produces that beautiful "artificial looking" results. The vexel renderer has an interesting configuration level.

Below you see a photo and a vexel rendered version.

I intend to make more tools for vexel dealing when I have time.



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