Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/artist-creates-portraits-from.html
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No, this is not possible. Photoshop! Witchcraft! Quantum uncertainty!
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String theory, obviously.
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On Hackaday.io, someone posted software to help make DIY knock-offs:
https://hackaday.io/project/130951-diy-knit
I fiddled with it last week, had some fun, but didn’t hit on a generated image that was good enough to actually make IRL. It takes a combo of a good image with the right settings.
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I made one for pushpins
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It’s a different technique using different materials, but the way that the overlapping strings create darker areas reminds me a little of packing tape art - as exemplified by the work of Mark Khaisman.
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Similar software has been around for a while. One of me I did some years ago: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5JN9Hb3inDSmAfXN2
Is your image string art, though? Or is it just a bitmap image? The software I linked to has parameters for the number of nails, lines, and size and then outputs step by step instructions for winding the thread. If you have a link to other, possibly better, software I’d like to know about it (Mother’s Day is coming up fast, and I’d like to craft a gift).
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