different ways to depict "birth of venus" in a more low-res way, if you were actually going to knit or crochet it. all three images are the same colors and same number of colors:
this image is 60 x 80 stitches and 19 colors. im aware both of those are cumbersome for someone who does not know how to knit or crochet, such as myself. someone mentioned a knitting machine? that changes the game. i tried to make it lower res and fewer colors but it just looked horrible.
i forget what "rules" i used for each of these, except for the last one.
1. Python script to identify all hex codes in the original image, etc, etc
2. Carve out her body by hand
3. look at your macro-generated list of hex colors that appear in the image. use "countif" to calculate how many times each color appears in only the "her body" part
basically it's 963 unique colors and a total of 971 pixels. because the image is so small almost every color appears only once. and you'll notice that her figure is more colors in the middle of the spectrum. i kind of tried to edit the original painting (using pixlr) so that the surrounding areas would be darker and her figure would be whiter by contrast, but it didn't quite work because she still has some light sky by her head and feet.
because of that i noticed in this first two examples up there that she was kind of blending into the background. but she's supposed to be distinct, yk? so i wanted to make sure her figure had the full spectrum of color.
now if the whole image is 60 x 80 and there are 19 yarn colors, that's about 252, 253 pixels of each yarn. but if we're only doing her, it's about 51, 52 pixels per yarn color.
my big idea was to completely ignore hue and saturation and go only by lightness. which is way simpler than what i was doing and made my whole big spreadsheet kinda not necessary.
4. take my yarn colors and sort them by L, lightness, darkest to lightest
kinda complicated because i derived the lightness value from the average of red, green and blue. like, pure black is 0, 0, 0, pure white is 255, 255, 255. but microsoft or whoever also assigns an L value to each color that was different than the color i came up with. so if i'd used a macro to determine saturation and lightness, they would have sorted in a different order. full disclosure
5. literally just look at the original colors, adding up each frequency value until reaching 51 or 52 as the case may be.
6. run the replacement macro
7. do the same process again, but for the background portion
tbh i kind of prefer the version of her alone ... so i have to figure out like, would i take black yarn and do the background? would that be color #20? would i use the rest of the colors to create some kind of halo (aureola!) so that the whole image does still have equal amounts of each color. i haven't decided
and i can't find the tiktok that made me first think of this, which was a young woman making a duster cardigan with this huge elaborate back panel. if i could find the tiktok i could fine tune some of the dimensions here
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