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my ratiorine fwb comic is done! i started this about a year ago and really wanted to challenge myself to illustrate a longer scene with these two, one where you could really see how deeply they care about each other but also their difficulties in putting those feelings into words.

i don't usually write much so i definitely went out of my comfort zone for this.. but i hope you all enjoy!

#ratiorine #hsr aventurine #veritas ratio

thirstkanaphan

nosferatuprivilege

birth of venus

nosferatuprivilege

this is in excel btw. and this image is exactly half green and half pink. and for each shade of green there is an equal number of "opposite" pink pixels. and this represents a major leap forward in excel macro use by me

nosferatuprivilege

the origin of this concept was, oh, what if you were trying to recreate an image as a tapestry? and you had, say, 24 colors of yarn? and you wanted the image to have equal amounts of each color of yarn? how would you effectively use the yarn you had to create the image? you'd have to look at all the colors of the original image, then look at your yarn colors, and find some consistent method for choosing what original colors are replaced with what yarn colors. but then it turns out there's a lot of different rules you could imagine or follow, which produce different-looking images. and you can end up with something like this:

which is cool. and it would be cool to say, find a granny square cardigan pattern with 24 squares, knit these squares, make a sick cardigan. but then i realized i don't know how to knit or anything. and once you accept that there isn't really a clear "application" and this concept lives on a screen, you open yourself up to more possibilities. a la birth of venus.

step 1: python script that looks at the original image and generates an excel spreadsheet the same dimensions (793 x 1322 pixels = 793 x 1322 cells), and each cell is populated with the hex code of the color that appears in that pixel of the original image

step 2: excel macro to generate list of every unique hex code that appears in the excel spreadsheet.

step 3: excel macro to calculate the R, G, B values of each of those hex codes.

step 4: excel macro to fill each cell with the color of that hex code (not necessary, i just like to do it).

step 5: I add in Saturation (the difference between the largest and smallest RGB value) and Lightness (average of all RGB values).

step 6: pick a color palette. i always find myself gravitating towards groovy seventies palettes with warm reds and oranges, so i decided not to do that this time. i looked on coolors and found a color palette that was all dark greens that were similar to each other. there were only like four colors or something in this palette. and to make it truly different from the other project, there should be a small gradient. so i determined the smallest possible change between colors and used an excel macro to color it. i was going to stop here and do the entire image in shades of green (inspired by that guy on tiktok that paints using only one color) but then. idk. i realized the "opposite" of each color was an equally subtly changing pink. so i imagined that the end of this process would be an "abstract" image, with subtle variations of pink and green, that would end up suggesting birth of venus.

so all told, i had 502 unique replacement colors, 251 of which are green, 251 of which are pink. (793 x 1322) / 502 = either 2088 or 2089 of each color.

step 7: find some method for finding the difference between the original colors of the image and my new color palette. I use a method of comparing, R, G, B, S and L:

((abs(R1 - R2) + abs(G1 - G2) + abs(B1 - B2)) / 3) + abs(S1 - S2) + abs(L1 - L2)

and you come up with something like this. on the left, those are colors that appear in the original image. across the top, those greens are the colors i'm replacing it with. in blue, that's the number of each new color i have to work with (it's just blue for contrast). and in the center, this pink area, that's a giant spreadsheet with the "objective" difference between each original color and each replacement color. it's pink because i have some conditional formatting applied, ignore that part.

and in this situation, you have some choices to make. in the original image up there, i used a schema prioritizing light and dark--i.e., i looked at the darkest color (pure black) that appeared in the original image, then found the closest replacement color (i.e., the replacement color with the smallest number). then did the same with the lightest color. then the next darkest, next lightest.

but i'm going to do it slightly differently this time. and i don't know how this image will come out looking.

if you look at the "first" green, closest to the left, and sort by smallest to largest:

you can see that these colors on the left are closest to the "first" green i've decided to work with. that might seem odd. i mean, #7F9800--> #00a94f are pretty close, but #A95400 is red. but that's just a difference in hue. really, #A95400 and #00a94f are very similar in lightness and saturation.

and this also calculates the number of times that color actually appears in the original image. that first specific green, #7F9800, only appears twice. but some colors, like actual black #000000, appear something like 46,000 times. and if you add all the numbers in the "frequency" column, it should exactly equal the sum of each replacement color (2088 ish x 502).

step 8: excel macro again. this one is complicated. basically it sorts that first "green" column (column E in my spreadsheet) from smallest to largest. then it adds each cell in the "frequency" column until it reaches or surpasses the blue cell above column E, which for this particular color is 2089. it copies those "original image" colors and their respective frequencies over to another sheet. for the color that surpassed 2089, it splits in two. then it deletes that column E. Then it makes sure "frequency" and "replacement color sum" still total. then it runs again on the new column E, until the whole spreadsheet is used up. and it generates something like:

[color from original image] [number of times that color appears] [replacement color, filled in]

and there's approximately 8000 lines of that.

i have the replacement colors in the order above. starting with vivid green, slowing transitioning to dark green, switching abruptly to bright pink, slowly transitioning to pale pink.

step 9: another excel macro. this one looks at original image broken down into hex codes, then looks at the generated list and replaces each [original] color with the replacement color, that exact number of times.

end result of these macros, following different "rules" of assigning replacement colors to original colors, is this:

which looks different, obviously. but it is the exact replacement colors, and same number of each replacement color, as the original up there.

at maximum efficiency, it took about 20 minutes to complete step 8 and 9. i have a vision of creating a series of these, each time "starting" with the next replacement color, and then making a gif of it. idk how to make gifs though

dragyndyke

@magnetictapedatastorage seems up your alley

khealywu

did someone just reinvent the jacquard loom in excel

chiimeramanticore

do me a favor and reblog this and put in the tags what time it is for you and what you're currently doing/thinking about

#5:55 pm currently in a dnd session #thinking abt writing

merymdm

Coco✨ I couldn't resist making a fanart with good old ink and paper.

#witch hat atelier

aromanticduck

You have to read all the books in your bedroom before you can leave. How long will you be trapped?

There's no books in there, I can leave immediately

Less than a day

1-3 days

4-6 days

1-3 weeks

4-7 weeks

2-3 months

4-6 months

7-11 months

1-2 years

3 years or more

Results

Voting ended onJun 27

You can't die from hunger or thirst or lack of medication etc.

It doesn't matter which books you've already read. You have to read them all, starting from now.

Physical books only - if you have an e-reader in there you don't have to read your entire digital library.

#1-2 years maybe? or 7-11 months #i have so many books in my room

lesly-oh

Granita!

thediscossessed

Everyone say thank you black women

noireservoir

THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN

creatingblackcharacters

LOUDER!!

beanswithbones

kjscottwrites

Where are you on the kinsey scale of fiction/fic reading?

0 Exclusively read original fiction

1 Predominantly read original fiction, rarely read fanfic

2 Predominantly read original fiction, often read fanfic

3 Equally read original fiction and fanfiction

4 Predominantly read fanfic, often read original fiction

5 Predominantly read fanfic, rarely read original fiction

6 Exclusively read fanfic

x I don't read lol

I wanna talk about it / results

Voting ended onJun 24

I'm curious too, about the drive towards one or the other. If youre a 1-2, what makes you seek out fanfic? If youre a 4-5, what makes you seek out original fiction?

#1-2 #i have a MASSIVE preference for original fiction #it just appeals to me more #bc while i adoooreee fanfic i just prefer original fiction #original stuff is overall more interesting to me

sockth

Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay

#ruan mei #also i think Paige Mahoney from the bone season is on either the ace spec or aroace spectrum

cryinganabell

Lil crickets on Goodnotes

#mlp #my little pony #mlp fanart #oh they look gorgeous

rabbitkinglune777

Paws crossed chapter 1: Awkward Encounter

rabbitkinglune777

the reception on here has me in tears!!! thank you everyone for enjoying them so far!!! I plan on really developing this story overtime with the amount of love and care I put into these two queer characters!!! thank youuuuu!!!

Hitch and Hitomi forever!!!!

rabbitkinglune777

the reception to paws crossed chapter one is friggin insane to me but thank you to those that were patient enough for me to finish chapter one. chapter two, cover + title design, and website hosting will be revealed/worked on soon!!! thank you for the support on my artwork and characters as a black queer disabled indie artist/writer!!! bunny hugs n kisses

#Asfjejfirjf theyre so cute i love them