Art Competition: Paint With Elements - The Elemental Avatars

[Jaxly]

Nice job Andretimpa, Looks really good!

[Submachine]

Based on Physsion's submission, I presume we can recreate old, but memorable avatars of current forumers too, right?

[Solaris]

Based on Physsion's submission, I presume we can recreate old, but memorable avatars of current forumers too, right?

Correct.

[Calambar]

Based on Physsion's submission, I presume we can recreate old, but memorable avatars of current forumers too, right?

There is not any note about avatar being memorable, or not old, or if user must be active right now. It just must be custom avatar, not card pic.

[Calambar]

Sorry for doble posting, but this one is the submission.

Spoiler for Submission:

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Spoiler for avatar proof:

Qwandri

Spoiler for comparison:

[Submachine]

Let me present you Higurashi's first custom avatar! This one was one of my favorites from when I was a newb, and it also has nice, distinct colors which helps to make it look more recognizable when it's ready. ^^

Spoiler for submission:

How I did it was to create a 50x50 grid and resize the image to fit to it. I then put the grid on the image to pixelate it. After the image was pixelated, I could roughly tell which gridcell had what kind of color in it. Below is how my work looked after it was first done. My submission above contains some modifications.

Spoiler for First Step: NOT SUBMISSION!:

Spoiler for reduced original avatar, avatar with grid, white background, black background:

Head-to-Head comparison:

[RootRanger]

I did the same thing as Submachine, except that I automated the process instead of manually picking each individual cell. I made a bunch of them, each taking literally two minutes, and ultimately decided on one.

Spoiler for Entry:

Spoiler for MATLAB:

OriginalCodes=load('MarkRGB.txt');
Codes=OriginalCodes/255;
[A,Map]=imread('Discord.png');
RGB=double(A)/255;
LX=length(RGB(1,:,1));
LY=length(RGB(:,1,1));
Result=zeros(LY,LX);
for X=1:1:LX
    for Y=1:1:LY
        MinRMSE=255;
        V=1;
        for N=1:1:16
            ErrorR=RGB(Y,X,1)-Codes(N,1);
            ErrorG=RGB(Y,X,2)-Codes(N,2);
            ErrorB=RGB(Y,X,3)-Codes(N,3);
            RMSE=sqrt(((ErrorR^2)+(ErrorG^2)+(ErrorB^2))/3);
            if RMSE<MinRMSE
                V=N;
                MinRMSE=RMSE;
            end
        end
        Result(Y,X)=V;
    end
end
Avatar=fopen('AvatarResult.txt','w');
for Y=1:1:LY
    for X=1:1:LX
        V=Result(Y,X);
        switch V
            case 1
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 2
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 3
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 4
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 5
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 6
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 7
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 8
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 9
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 10
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 11
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 12
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 13
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 14
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            case 15
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
            otherwise
                fprintf(Avatar, ' ');
        end
    end
    fprintf(Avatar,'\r\n');
end

[rob77dp]

Yeah, deadline missed because work.

Here is where I made it to with CleanOnion's avy:

Spoiler for CleO's avy as PWE!: