How do you paste pictures into Powder Toy?

  • Videogamer555
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    I have seen several PT creations which involve full pictures that are pixel for pixel acurate to some other source image (such as found on the web). They clearly were not made one pixel at a time (the only way to do such manually) as that would take a maddening amount of time to do (especially where dithering is involved as the no exact PT color matches the actual pixel, as dithering is a complicated computer algorithm). Clearly such pictures were not done manually, even with the help of Transparent Windows. They must have been generated it either with an undocumented internal PT function or with the help of an external program that could convert pictures to PT stamps.

    Anyone here have an idea on how this was done?
  • vanquish349
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    they wrote there own program to do it for them
  • JoJoBond
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Converting pictures to stamps is the method.
  • Videogamer555
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    And is the stamps file even a documented file format? I r convuzed.
  • JoJoBond
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    There is barely anything documented, including the stamp format.
    But you can read the code quite easily.
    Making the stamp isn't the hardest thing by the way.
    Color palette and dithering are the real problems.
  • ClaymoreTF2
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @JoJoBond
    Yeah you Eve or other pictures are awesome i want how to do that.
    I buy even graphic tablet.
  • JoJoBond
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    No graphic tablet involved.
  • ClaymoreTF2
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @JoJoBond
    So how?
    I don't know anything about scripts.
  • JoJoBond
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    I coded a program that can convert pictures into stamps. It does all the stuff necessary (Dithering, Zipping, Headers, etc.). Currently I can generate 7417 unique colors.
  • ClaymoreTF2
    16th Mar 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @JoJoBond
    what that program?
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