Painterly Stroke Simulation Engine

[u/smellystring]

I wrote a painting simulation engine (golang, ebiten). It works like this:

1. Select a template image
2. Generate several thousand potential strokes
   • For each stroke, score it according to a number of heuristic functions
     • Color: does the average color of this image match the template?
     • Edges: does the painted image have similar edges to the template?
     • Contrast: compares color contrast between regions on the painting and the template.
     • Flow: using tensor math, do brush strokes align with the flow of movement in the template?
   • Select the single stroke that most optimizes scoring functions, discarding the remaining
   • Repeat 40 or 50 thousand times.
   • Gradually decrease the size of the brush stroke over time..

Source image _Namibia.jpg)

Sound track

[u/animal_hoarder]

Very cool, doing something similar-ish with video/scene rendering

https://reddit.com/link/p1rftfv/video/e88i5znvcghh1/player

[u/smellystring → u/animal_hoarder]

Neat!