string-art is an algorithm to construct string-art pictures.
This project has been inspired by the magnificant works of Petros Vrellis.
The idea is to crop a picture to a given shape (e.g. circle) and then place a number of nails evenly spaced around that. Then based on a random nail the algorithm starts calculating the best route (that is the route with the highest darkness) to the next nail. This procedure is continued until a maximum number of iterations is reached or the simulated picture matches the input.
The general idea of how to use the module in your own scripts is presented in
the __main__.py routine.
This is a relatively naive implementation. The problem scales with the number of nails, iterations as well as the resolution of the input.
- Use cropped images roughly 300x300px
- Works best with pictures with high contrast
- Works best on portraits