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Re: 1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

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Post by krupan »

guff_se wrote: post #14

There’s an awful lot of emdashes in that text.

I hate LLMs too, but these comments are getting old. Those of us from a certain generation (who grew up using computers that this website is mimicking) were taught in our "keyboarding" classes to hit - twice to type a hyphen in the WordPerfect word processor. Guess where LLMs learned to type? By reading everything we old people wrote

Re: 1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

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Post by semolino »

SpyCoder77 wrote: post #23

On mobile if you zoom in the background gives you a headache

The page would benefit from

  image-rendering: pixelated;
in the CSS which would probably(?) prevent the headache-inducing effect, which I'm guessing comes from the hard edges of the background image tiling contrasted with the bilinear upscale blur.

The site looks like it was abandoned in 2023, however.

Re: 1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

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Post by willmeyers »

andrewstuart wrote: post #15
willmeyers wrote: post #10

I was inspired by this site to run emojis through a dithering algorithm ( https://dither-emojis.pages.dev/ )! Nothing beats hand drawn though.

They look good what was your process.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you.

Basically I extracted the emojis from my Mac's system font. From there I downscaled them to 64x64 pixels and made them grayscale.

With this set of images I experimented with a few different algorithms. I ended up settling for just a regular ordered dithering (Bayer). But! It still didn't look that good. So what I ended up doing was normalizing the darks and lights for each emoji. This was because some emojis are lighter and darker than others. I wanted to create a uniform appearance for all of them.

So the process was (1) get emojis. (2) downscale + grayscale. (3) normalize tone. (4) dither. (5) then upscale

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