Linify "draws" photos with straight lines

[beschizza]

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[JonBristow]

Link in the article seems broken to me. EDIT: FIXED!

http://imgur.com/3pTweoq

[peemlives]

The effect is ghostly yet technical, resembling something human-drawn but not enough to be confused as such.

Although it may be confused with a drawing on paper that was later very well creased and then dampened.

[CaptainPedge]

[Old]

I put in an image of a straight line and got this:

http://imgur.com/qfTaQb4

[renke]

just look at it

[daneel]

[anon73629133]

[anon29631895]

What does the backside look like?

[JonBristow]

My nephew everyone! Just look at them chubby cheeks!

http://imgur.com/DdEYYZF

[anon29631895]

Fairly accurate reproduction… Why to all y’alls look so odd?

[SamSam]

Two-year-old with Fozzie Bear.

[Abiatha_Swelter]

This is giving me flashbacks of the string-art projects I did as a kid in the 1970s.

[JonBristow]

I’m actually more fascinated by the ones that don’t work well.

vs

[daneel]

Mondrian works better than Lichtenstein…

[JonBristow]

You have to wait a while, but upping the line count to 20,000 (unsurprisingly) leads to better results in the failure cases.

http://imgur.com/IKBOBMF

(compare to https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonthegm/5963582091)

[crashproof]

It’s a little rough on Jackson Pollack too.

But I think I prefer the Linified version.

[crashproof]

[JonBristow]

http://imgur.com/tLbrnWU

[crashproof]