Hi Michael and all other programmers,

would it be possible that someone of you considers a scipt which could equally
space hand drawn circle primitives, with various sizes and positions?

I ask, because I have seen software which can create circle packing, in color,
of an image but the output is bitmap and when trying to convert this with software
to vector images it misses lot of colored circles, hence I would like to re-build such
computed images entirely with MoI, but have difficulties to properly evenly space
the hand drawn circles.

Regards
Stefan

Hi Stefan, there is not any mechanism already existing in MoI for doing that. So making a script to do it would involve the script implementing some algorithm.

That's likely to be quite a lot of work, the first steps would be to do some research and look for any published technical papers that describe the algorithm.

- Michael

Like this ? (the big image) Not really random ;)
Have you an image of what do you want ?

But that you ask seems perfect for Elephant no? (but i am not entierely sure of what is wished! :)
+ this sort of thing
You have a collection of object that you random spread ?

Hi Pilou, from what I understood no not like that. That one does not have a uniform spacing between circles. Your small circles have more space around them than the large circles. The large circles touch their neighboring circles, the small circles do not touch their neighboring circles.

- Michael

Something like this?
https://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9581.165

It is a work in process. It does create vector graphic circle packing from picture in colors with MOI.

Wayne

Hi Michael,

thanks for the reply and I do not want that you waste your time with that, because
v4 is much much more important.


Hi Wayne,

exactly, I don't mind if there would be not enough colors, because I could manually
re-create the addional colors needed.

Regards
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Colors are set limited by a javascript library. Having said that, the number of colors (styles / layers) can easily expand to how many styles you feel is necessary. This sample has 24 additional styles. The colors on the picture has been quantized using this library within the Node Editor:

https://github.com/leeoniya/RgbQuant.js/


Post or PM me a sample for what you are looking to convert.

Thank you,

Wayne

Mandelbrot set ?

Pilou,
A picture I found on the internet that looked like an interesting sample to test.

Wayne

Hi Wayne,

these examples would be portrait fotos of family members, friends or collegues,
so I think you can take any copyright free image from Wikipedea etc, like a polititian,
movie actor etc.

As an example Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel.

Best regards
Stefan

Stefan,

Is this close to what you are looking for?
The 3dm file is 15 mb and would not download to this forum.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pLXE35iyCZ7fbzYjkJO5ZSTupSU8AKNg


Thank you,
Wayne

Hi Wayne,

looks fantastic, however the circles are all equal in size and not like circle packing,
with various sizes.

Regards
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Have you a sample image to see what you really want as result ?

It's more easy to find a way when you know where you want to go...

Regards

have you seen STIPPLEGEN 2

https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/stipplegen2/

@Phiro Hi,

Wayne has posted a link, in this thread. Like his ABC or like the Mona Lisa:

https://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9581.165

@AlexPolo Hi,

yes, I remember stipplegen, but I like to have circle packing and not stippling.

Regards
Stefan

Hi Phiro and AlexPolo,

here is an example.



Regards
Stefan

Hi All,

Vector graphics work well with the pointillism routine on this node. Pictures do not work as well at this moment.
Circle packing is one of the item being investigated for this node. The stipple generator is a favorite to work on as well.



Wayne

Hi Wayne,

nice update!

I send you also a PM.

Regards
Stefan

Remember a cool one free 2D Physics !

http://www.algodoo.com
first seconds! ;)