sensible-paste-up

Hypothesis

We hypothesize that the hard part about doing a good cut-up is not the cutting so much as the pasting.

Apparatus

• Python 2.7.6 (probably works with older versions too)
• Pillow (it might work with PIL too)
• Some images, possibly ones that have already been cut up by find-cut-up-regions, but any images should work (maybe)

Method

• Read in all the cut-up images for their metadata.
• Make a blank canvas, that is, totally 100% white pixels (and it is best maybe if pixels of this colour do not appear in the cut-up images.)
• Start with the largest cut-up image. Put it in the centre of the canvas.
• Work downwards in size of image. Try to put them as close to the centre of the canvas as possible, but also cover as many 100% white pixels as possible.
• Continue until you have run out of white pixels or cut-up images.

Observations

A bit disappointing, but then, this is a bit ambitious. Could use more than the split-attention few days I've been working on it, to get better results.

The idea is to use bits that have been cut up with find-cut-up-regions. The problem (if this is a problem) is that we either don't cover the canvas, leaving areas full-white and ugly, or we run out of space, and have wasted snippets.

But it's not terrible: