I did these last night. I was inspired by cignoh's latest avatar attempt and wanted to see if I could achieve the same effect.

I had tried last year to cartoonify myself, but the result (while not horrible) left something to be desired.

The steps I followed (using GIMP) were:

(1) load my picture

(2) create a blank second layer

(3) trace the major lines in my picture (this is a little harder than it looks)

(4) coarsely pixelize (filters -> blur -> pixelize) the original image - nice big blocky pixels

(5) sampled colours from the pixelized image to floodfill the areas in my traced image

Over all, it worked a lot better than my attempt last year at cartoonifying.

However, I still though there should be a more mechanical way (i.e. avoiding having me draw / trace stuff) of doing it. So I played a little more and came up with this (as an intermediate result, but I liked it, so I kept it):

One thing I did was to (1) create duplicate layers of the image, (2) seriously blur one of the image, (3) do a difference of images, (4) invert the image. This resulted in a nice image as well.

The following illustrates the steps I took to achieving this:

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anglophilegonewrong

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You never run out of ideas do you? I love your experiments and the creativity involved, still the precision that follows in explanation is amazing, you should have been a teacher of sciences or something, would have made a lot of kids happy!

Monday 07 March 2011, 18:02

richard

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Thanks!

Creativity is hard, but the desire for it is not. Just think of all the timesone sits down to write something brilliant and all that comes to mind is that blank sheet of paper staring back at you. And, somehow it has become an imposiing sheet of paper.

I like sharing my knowledge and, yeas, teaching does often seem like a good idea.

Tuesday 08 March 2011, 06:37

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