Very nice. I was sad to see it stop when it had done the tree.
The Joy of Painting is great (Bob Ross Incorporated, not so much). I don't think I'd ever hang one of those quaint images on a wall. But the quick techniques to achieve a certain effect are fascinating, at least to an ignoramus like me, e.g. pushing down with a certain brush to get tree branches, or swooshing down on previously drawn stuff to create reflections on water.
Incidentally, I've always thought there was something almost algorithmic to it: the motives themselves were really formulaic, and the techniques reminded me of certain Photoshop tools and brush effects. The submission is a fantastic start, but I think you could go much farther than that.
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm still going to keep going, but I wanted to submit it close to Bob Ross's anniversary. I was planning to do mountains next.
And it's further a demonstration of how magical Bob Ross was; without his narration, it's just an insipid landscape, if the clouds are not happy and little, and the left cloud does not have the right cloud as a friend.
Are you guys looking at the same picture as I am? What I see is a weak copy of Bret Victors landscape generator with horrible colours and MSPaint-like strokes.
I mean it's nice to have such a thing on your CV, but why post it to HN? (and why upvote it?)
If this puts anyone in the mood to receive some Bob Ross affirmations, I really enjoyed PBS's Bob Ross remix made earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA
I may use these generated pictures as backgrounds for slide presentations, so it would be nice to hear if the author is fine with that. What license is the resulting picture subject to?
The Joy of Painting is great (Bob Ross Incorporated, not so much). I don't think I'd ever hang one of those quaint images on a wall. But the quick techniques to achieve a certain effect are fascinating, at least to an ignoramus like me, e.g. pushing down with a certain brush to get tree branches, or swooshing down on previously drawn stuff to create reflections on water.
Incidentally, I've always thought there was something almost algorithmic to it: the motives themselves were really formulaic, and the techniques reminded me of certain Photoshop tools and brush effects. The submission is a fantastic start, but I think you could go much farther than that.