Lowpoly

This is a script to generate lowpoly of a image. Two version are available, local python script and a web version. Python version has a option to use entropy method which is slow to calculate on the browser.

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How to Run the Python Script

• Clone the repo

  git clone https://github.com/kapilpokhrel/Lowpoly.git
  cd Lowpoly
  

• Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Run the Script

  python lowpoly.py dogimage.jpg
  

  For command line options, run

  python lowpoly.py --help
  

Why?

Because, one day I saw a Desmos art which made cool image by using polygons and I wanted to generate a lowpoly image made up of polygons in a desmos graph and it was quite a challenge. Later, I realized that have it generate only in desmos was kinda weird and changed it to generate a image. But still, there's a brach named desmos with old code.

Why Python script instead of just using Javascript?

I know its tedious to clone the repo and install all dependencies. But here are some reasons I chose python:

• I did write it in Javascript to check but calculating entropy of a image was way too slow and I couldn't find any faster way to do it in JS.
• It's easy with everything already done for you by python packages.:grin:

While all this is still true, there's now a web version but only sobel filter method is implemented.

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Huge thanks to these posts:

• http://www.degeneratestate.org/posts/2017/May/24/images-to-triangles/
• https://esimov.com/2019/04/image-triangulation-in-go