Cherry blossoms along the Saho River
2023-3-26 Along the Saho river in Nara city, there are places where cherry tree lines can be seen more than 1 km. In early April, cherry trees have full bloom and crowded with people who come to see them every year. This year, the flowers were in full earlier than usual in the end of […]
Creating an illustration like image from photos – part 2
Last time, I used K-means clustering to do dimensionality reduction of images to convert photos to images like Eizin Suzuki’s illustration. The converted images look like an illustration, but the color tone was very dark and it was far from the pop flavor art that the illustrator draws. In K-means, the centroids of clusters are […]
Creating an illustration like image from photos
In the 1980s, when I became a company employee from a university student, the illustration drawn by Eizin Suzuki were beautiful and very popular in Japan. HERE is the link to Eizin Suzuki’s official site. His illustration are so impressive that I often want to turn photos taken by myself into the pictures like his […]
GIF animation during NST transaction
Using Python, GIF animations can be created with very short code. I tested it with plush toys. The sample code is as follows. Created a folder named “input_image” in the same working folder and put frame-by-frame photos there, it is easy to create GIF animations. I also superimposed some “text” information on the images. Previously, […]
Iga Ueno Sweets Road
2022-11-16 I learned that there is a place called Sweets Road in Iga City, Mie Prefecture, then visited there. As I arrived too early in the morning, visited Iga Ueno Castle first. The castle is famous for its tall stone walls surrounded. Ducks were swimming in the moat of the castle. The maple leaves were […]
Generation of watercolor-like paintings by NST
Last time, I used brightness intensity as a threshold to extract flowers, leaves, and stems from a cosmos flower photo. This time, I applied watercolor painting style to this photo using Neural Style Transfer (NST). I used the short code below to reverse left side right of the content image, to make the direction same […]
Inabuchi Terraced Rice Fields and Kashihara Insectarium
2022-11-11 I went to see the terraced rice fields in Inabuchi, Asuka, Nara prefecture before getting too cold. The rice harvest was done and could not see the shining rice plants, but it was the calm place to be able to feel very clean air. I dropped by the Kashihara city insectarium on the way […]
Todai-ji Nigatsu-do
2022-11-07 I went Nigatsu-do, one of the Buddha halls of Todai-ji temple in Nara city. I released the shutter on the interesting things that caught my eyes. map
Muro Ryuketsu Shrine
2022-10-28 Muro Ryuketsu Shrine is located about 1 km behind the famous Murouji Temple. Very many people would visit Murouji Temple, but I think only small number of people out of that temple visitors reach this shrine. Ryuketsu means dragon hole in Japanese. Dragon is the god of water. There is a dragon hole in […]
Image area selection by intensity (code included)
I went Fujiwara Palace ruins the other day as I heard a large cosmos flower field appears during autumn. I could take nice photos of cosmos flowers, and thought I’d try to make it into a watercolor painting like the following free material, by computing. Target: watercolor painting of cosmos flowers (the picture below is […]