Pointillism

Image manipulation for various "pointillism" effects, built from scratch in Python. Image handling courtesy of Pillow.

Under active development. Please let me know if you have feedback.

Web app version

Currently deployed at pointillizer.com, check it out to try out the effect or see examples.

Deployment via Django on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Examples and usage

See detailed example usage in Jupyter notebook Pointillism Example Usage.ipynb

See other example images in google album

Installation

Install with pip install pointillism

Modules

• pointillism.image - core image methods for pointillizing
• pointillism.pipeline - methods for making image manipulation pipelines and gifs
• pointillism.batch - batch processing of images or gifs in series (parallel coming soon)
• pointillism.movies - coming soon!

Basic usage

Making a pointillized image with default presets

# Import 
import pointillism as pt

# Initialize
point = pt.image(image_location)

# Render
# optional setting can be 'balanced', 'fine', 'ultrafine', 'coarse', or 'uniform'
point.make() 

# Save
# or point.display() if using IPython
point.save_out(image_location)