Bmp2zzt ?

Ryan Ferneau · Post by **Ryan Ferneau** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:56 am

Wow, it lets you make a blurry picture that doesn't really look like anything.

913 · Post by **913** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:34 am

Well, it can produce blurry pics, but not always:

Here's another and another.

Pics of a certain complexity will look blurry/amorphous no matter what you do. Pics with simple palettes work best. You can sometimes get good results by taking an RGB image, changing it to a 256 (or lower) Indexed color image (with a standard palette, like Windows system colors) with Image -->Mode in Photoshop, then changing it back to RGB (so you can save it as a 24-bit bmp).

There will be a good number of things that it makes more sense to just draw in the editor, but bmp2zzt can be useful for certain images.

Ando · Post by **Ando** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:39 am

One would think that a B&W picture would do just fine.

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:44 am

not really since there's a limited number of grays.

FSFunky · Post by **FSFunky** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:51 am

kawaii ^_________________________________^

Post by **MadTom** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:03 am

I like the program a lot, but I find the colours do not tend to work very well. It's better to do them manually.

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:26 am

mad tom is ri ght

i put a picture of lowtax through it and he was all green

it made me cry

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:51 pm

maybe if it was programed to use half solids it'd be better, but I tend to agree with the masses. It's useful for getting the shape sometimes.

Ryan Ferneau · Post by **Ryan Ferneau** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:09 pm

Zenith Nadir wrote:i put a picture of lowtax through it and he was all green

it made me cry

It made me cry when Lowtax's space robot pushed him down the stairs. Do you have stairs in your house?

superbowl shuffle · Post by **superbowl shuffle** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:11 pm

Nadir does not live in a house! He is an upstart single young man living in a flat in downtown Londom. There are probably stairs in his building, but he wouldn't climb them all the way to the top floor, despite being in spectacular physical shape. He usually just takes the lift.

Ryan Ferneau · Post by **Ryan Ferneau** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:23 pm

Oh good. That means the space robots can't push him down the stairs. ...Or can they?

superbowl shuffle · Post by **superbowl shuffle** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:41 pm

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Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:10 pm

Dr. Who! Use the stairs!

Aplsos · Post by **Aplsos** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:13 am

Zenith Nadir wrote:mad tom is ri ght

i put a picture of lowtax through it and he was all green

it made me cry

i noticed that sometimes while i was saving files in photoshop.

i could usually fix it by opening it in irfanview, decreasing the color depth, then increasing it again and saving the file

i had a big picture of an explosion that originally turned out green, but worked after i re-saved it

so, in conclusion,

superbowl shuffle · Post by **superbowl shuffle** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:21 am

Someone should lace bmp2zzt with zpalette. That program would be king.