konify - a desktop background image generator

Xyne · 2009-04-25 06:49:50

*update*
I've created a page for konify on my site: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/artwork/konify

*another update*
There is also a thread for Konify3D

It started with this thread and before you know it I ended up with konify (named in honor of the creator of the image that inspired it).

At this point it's just a fun little script but I might improve it later, e.g. package it, create a man page, yadda yadda yadda but for now it's just a file on the server. Just open it in a text file and take a look at the commented options at the top to see what command-line options it accepts. You can configure the following (and maybe more):

image size
tile size
tile palette (finite set of colors to use for background tiles)
background color (the gridlines basically)
overlay image (including urls)
overlay image position
convert overlay image to tiles
output file (extension determines format)

It depends on perl, imagemagick and tput (the latter is just for the progress bar... big images with small tiles take a while... might try to optimize this later too). The tiles are generated randomly.

Here are some output examples:

If you create something with this, post a screenshot in this thread... it would be interesting to see what people do with it.

Last edited by Xyne (2009-12-23 19:30:09)

Heller_Barde · 2009-04-25 08:51:56

now integrate this with a game of life and you'd have a subtly alive wallpaper (just introduce random cells when population falls under a certain threshold ^^)

mmmh, i might even try this

3nd3r · 2009-04-25 12:25:01

Good GOD Xyne, that took you like what? 20 seconds to code? <3

Can you make it do anything else? like other designs instead of the squares?

Xyne · 2009-04-25 15:54:54

3nd3r wrote:

Can you make it do anything else? like other designs instead of the squares?

Um, not yet? Give me some ideas and I might try to implement them.

3nd3r · 2009-04-25 16:01:33

i donno, something other than squares, maybe triangles tiled? rightside up, upside down etc..

3nd3r · 2009-04-25 17:24:01

Xyne · 2009-05-05 00:57:28

I used konify twice and then composed the resultant images in GIMP.

test1000 · 2009-05-05 21:54:56

sweet.

moljac024 · 2009-05-05 22:25:04

Xyne, this rocks dude...

Xenokite · 2009-12-23 15:40:51

i would like to try this how do i go about it?

nevermind i got it.. here is mines i just added some logos to it
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o318 … 0x1200.png

Last edited by Xenokite (2009-12-23 18:24:10)

Xyne · 2009-12-23 19:32:19

Thanks for the feedback, Xenokite

There isn't much different between the two, but I should point out that there is a thread for Konify3D as well.

Xenokite · 2009-12-23 19:57:31

Xyne wrote:

Thanks for the feedback, Xenokite
There isn't much different between the two, but I should point out that there is a thread for Konify3D as well.

Well that is weird i can't seem to get the none 3d version to work. I had save the 3d file as a .pov and the none as .sh. Should i have save both as .pov?

Xyne · 2009-12-23 20:15:08

The 2D version has nothing to do with povray. The extension shouldn't make a difference either but if you want you can add ".pl" since it's a Perl script. To run it, either make it executable and run it directly, or just use "perl konify" followed by the options.

Xenokite · 2009-12-23 20:42:13

Xyne wrote:

The 2D version has nothing to do with povray. The extension shouldn't make a difference either but if you want you can add ".pl" since it's a Perl script. To run it, either make it executable and run it directly, or just use "perl konify" followed by the options.

wow thanks a lot !!! Great little script is there a way to input like a image that will come out like that?

Xyne · 2009-12-23 22:19:23

No, I never bothered to implement that.

It's easy to do manually though. Set the background color to something like bright green (#00FF00) and generate the background image. Open it in Gimp or some other image editor then import the image that you want to use as a layer. Use a color selection tool to select the green background of the background image, switch to the layer with your image, then hit delete. You should end up with your image cut into little squares.

Switch back to the background and fill in the green with some other color, then play around with the layer modes to get the final image.

That's basically how I created the world map image above.

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