pintr
Creative
image to line art converter
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
11 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.39.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool concept and impressive artistic results.
From 3 comments
Cool concept. I was trying to develop something along those lines. I'd like to feed an image to an algorithm and have it draw it, like this:…
atum47 on HNImpressive. Very artsy.
torh on HNPretty cool! Nice work, dude.
daniellarusso on HN
Useful for plotter and laser cutter users.
From 2 comments
WOW this is cool! Going to take these files and put them into my lasercutter to see what I get. Really really cool thing!
blhack on HNThis is great! I just created a pen holding adapter for my 3d printer so I can do some plots. I still need to find a good way to efficiently convert SVG files to gcode, but this…
roland35 on HN
Objections
Face images with light backgrounds come out dark and jagged.
From 2 comments
Just a warning. If you upload your own headshot in the standard light-on-light linkedin background style. You will come out looking like a horror film drawing. There isn't enough…
jvanderbot on HNcool concept, struggling to get good facial definitions. https://a.tmp.ninja/obxwcfzK.png
ash_dev on HN
Does not accept HEIC photos.
From 2 comments
Pretty cool! Too bad most of my photos are in HEIC format and the site won't load them.
diehunde on HNThat's right. It was from my computer
diehunde on HN
Canvas randomisation in Brave or Firefox breaks the drawing.
From 1 comment
For anyone on Brave or Firefox with protection enabled: you have to turn it off, because canvas randomisation will just result it in it permanently drawing a mess of lines…
ev1 on HN
Requests
Export to G-code or SVG for plotting.
From 2 comments
This is great! I just created a pen holding adapter for my 3d printer so I can do some plots. I still need to find a good way to efficiently convert SVG files to gcode, but this…
roland35 on HNYes, in this case the SVG is a list of coordinate pairs, should be fairly easy to extract. https://github.com/javierbyte/pintr/blob/master/lib/svg.js#L12 * Update to add a link…
javierbyte on HN
Single line mode for cleaner facial detail.
From 1 comment
Can you try again with "Single Line" on?
moehm on HN
Questions
Is the path generator source code available?
From 1 comment
That's really neat! Is the source of the path generator available anywhere?
elliotf on HN
Alternatives named
Flow Imager plugin for vpype.
From 1 comment
There's a fun and vibrant plotter art community clustered around the AxiDraw and similar low cost at-home plotters. Lots of fun stuff, including several image converters like…
NelsonMinar on HN
Ditherit and WSJ AI portrait tool.
From 2 comments
Ditherit.com might do a decent rough approximation
aharris6 on HNWSJ have a site for this at https://aiportrait.wsj.com/.
zerkten on HN
imagetracerjs vectorizer.
From 1 comment
Cool. Shameless plug: public domain image vectorizer https://github.com/jankovicsandras/imagetracerjs
jankovicsandras on HN