Bart Massey 2022

This little Rust toy takes an input image and "geometrizes" it. geometrize borrows the approach of this IOCCC Winner by Ilya Kurdyukov: such a nice graphic idea.

The program first converts the input image to grayscale. It then

1. Splits the image either horizontally or vertically into two pieces, in a way that minimizes the pixel grayscale variance of each piece.

2. Recolors each piece to shrink pixel grayscale values toward the mean.

3. Recursively processes each piece, up to a maximum depth.

When the recursion is complete, a final rescaling of pixel grayscale values is performed to make the image full-range. Then the processed image is written out as a 16-bit grayscale PNG.

Here is a picture of me:

Here is the geometrization of that picture:

Thanks to Ilya Kurdyukov for their inspiration.

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