Infinite Image Engine: Screenshots
The framework is coming along nicely. In the screenshots above you can see the before and after for my test image. The after image is composed of 800 photos pulled from flickr.
I’ve been focusing on the color matching algorithms, which I’m now pretty happy with. Although in the processed image you will notice that the halo around his head does not quite match, that is the result of settting a fairly high color tolorance of 20 rather than problems with color matching. Setting to a lower tolorance will result in closer matches (and also more difficulty in finding matches).
My next focus will be to improve rendering. For example, the overall look of the composite image will be a closer match if the same replacement image is not used more than once-or at least used only a very few times and not directly next to each other. Using the same images in succession results in too much of a pattern appearing in the image, as is the case with the processed image above. Less pattern is better. Think pointillism, like Matisse’s “La Maison verte, Venice” and you will have a good idea of what I’m striving for.
It’s interesting to note just how closely the composite will often match the original image. For example, the boy’s nose in the processed image is clearly visible. His ears and hair shading are distinct as well as the shadow under his chin. Some of the feather patterns on the left wing are even rendered…although in this case the wing pattern may be an example of the resuse of images working in favor of the composite image.
That’s it for now. More to come soon!
-MGE
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