Don'tcha hate it when you sorta know what you want to know, but also know that you don't know the right question to ask?...
I recall seeing an art quilt at a show that was essentially a picture that had been broken down into average color-value "pixels" of 3/4" or
1". I always thought that this was a really cool idea, but I have no idea how to break a picture down that way. Is there some kind of (hopefully free downloadable) software that does it? Or is there some other method? TIA.Doc Smith
Irfanview is a freeware graphics program that will pixelize an image. (It does a lot of other things too.)
I had great fun with that in an art class lo these many years ago. We broke down several pictures in that manner, had to design some, and then for our mid-term we had to do a mosaic. It was in the PP (pre-pixel) years, so the idea was conveyed in terms of newspaper photos and television screens. We traveled through color theroy and abstraction to get to it. It seems almost criminal to think of just pressing a button and getting an image, but then like I said I found it fun.
If you can tell the difference between turquoise and azure, and know how to use a straight edge, I could probably explain a way to do it by hand. Otherwise you probably want to find that software.
NightMist
The software is very user friendly. You can specify the size squares you want -- the number of patches you want... -- making it as complex/detailed (or more abstract). You choose.
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