You [Gerald Bauer¹] have been permanently banned [for life] from participating in r/ruby (because of your writing off / outside of r/ruby). I do not see your participation adding anything to this [ruby] community.

-- Richard Schneeman (r/ruby mod and fanatic illiberal ultra leftie on a cancel culture mission)

¹: I know. Who cares? Who is this Gerald Bauer anyway. A random nobody for sure. It just happens that I am the admin among other things of Planet Ruby.

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>  I just banned gerald.bauer@gmail.com.
>
>  -- SHIBATA Hiroshi
>
>> THANK YOU
>> 
>>  -- Ryan Davis
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>> -- Xavier Noria
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>> My full support to moderators.
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« Ruby Pixel Art Week 2021, April 19th to April 25th - 7 Days of Ruby (Graphics) Gems

Day 5 - pixelart-characters Gem - Generate Pixel Art Characters, Algorithmically - Case Study №1 - 8-Bit Icon Avatar Series (20x20)

Written by Gerald Bauer

Case Study №1 - 8-Bit Icon Series (20x20)

Let’s try the 8-bit icon series with a 20x20 pixel art image set, see /design.punks/8bit.

Step 1: Map the pixel art images (or designs in ascii text) to a characters generation definition.

require 'pixelart/characters'

######
# skin tone colors
HUMAN_LIGHTER_BASE1 = '0xead9d9'   # rgb(234 217 217) - hsl(  0°  29%  88%)
HUMAN_LIGHT_BASE1   = '0xdbb180'   # rgb(219 177 128) - hsl( 32°  56%  68%)
HUMAN_DARK_BASE1    = '0xae8b61'   # rgb(174 139  97) - hsl( 33°  32%  53%)
HUMAN_DARKER_BASE1  = '0x713f1d'   # rgb(113  63  29) - hsl( 24°  59%  28%)


###############
# characters generation definition
CHARACTERS = {
  'male'   => {
    'face' => [{ design: 'male', colors: [HUMAN_LIGHTER_BASE1] },
               { design: 'male', colors: [HUMAN_LIGHT_BASE1] },
               { design: 'male', colors: [HUMAN_DARK_BASE1] },
               { design: 'male', colors: [HUMAN_DARKER_BASE1] }],
    'clothes' => (1..65).to_a,
    'eye'     => (1..32).to_a,
    'mouth'   => (1..26).to_a,
    'hair'    => (1..36).to_a,
  },
  'female' => {
     'face' => [{ design: 'female', colors: [HUMAN_LIGHTER_BASE1] },
                { design: 'female', colors: [HUMAN_LIGHT_BASE1] },
                { design: 'female', colors: [HUMAN_DARK_BASE1] },
                { design: 'female', colors: [HUMAN_DARKER_BASE1] }],
     'clothes' => (1..59).to_a,
     'eye'     => (1..53).to_a,
     'mouth'   => (1..17).to_a,
     'hair'    => (1..33).to_a,
  }
}

Note: List all parts (such as face, clothes, eyes, etc.) that make up a character in the paste order, that is, the algo will generate an empty pixel image / canvas and than adds - or is that composes or pastes - one part after the other on top all the way from face to hair.

Let’s set up the character generator (or is that artist?) by passing in the characters definition and the root directory housing all the the pixel art:

artist = Character.new( CHARACTERS,
                        dir: "./8bit" )

Let’s generate some characters. Let’s start with a male using the part selection (1,1,1,1,1) - that is, face #1, clothes #1, eye #1, mouth #1, and hair #1 - and so on:

img = artist.generate( 'male', 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 )
img.save( '8bit-male1.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-male1x4.png')

img = artist.generate( 'male', 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 )
img.save( '8bit-male2.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-male2x4.png')

img = artist.generate( 'male', 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 )
img.save( '8bit-male3.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-male3x4.png')

img = artist.generate( 'male', 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 )
img.save( '8bit-male4.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-male4x4.png')


img = artist.generate( 'female', 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 )
img.save( '8bit-female1.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-female1x4.png')

img = artist.generate( 'female', 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 )
img.save( '8bit-female2.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-female2x4.png')

img = artist.generate( 'female', 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 )
img.save( '8bit-female3.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-female3x4.png')

img = artist.generate( 'female', 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 )
img.save( '8bit-female4.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-female4x4.png')

Voila!

Let the artist do the painting, that is, let the computer fill in the numbers with a random lottery.

img = artist.random( 'male' )
img.save( '8bit-male-random1.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-male-random1x4.png')

img = artist.random( 'female' )
img.save( '8bit-female-random1.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-female-random1x4.png')

img = artist.random
img.save( '8bit-random1.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-random1x4.png')

img = artist.random
img.save( '8bit-random2.png')
img.zoom(4).save( '8bit-random2x4.png')

Voila!

That’s it.

Find Out More

References

Home :: github.com/rubycoco/pixel/pixelart-characters
Gem :: pixelart-characters
Docs :: pixelart-characters

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