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Software to Divide an Image Into Discrete Patterns

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the from-full-raster-to-collection-of-shapes dept.

slashyslashy asks: "My preschooler son is fond of color-by-number pages. We have already exhausted most of the online sites that offer somewhat limited sets of coloring pages that he can print to a paper and color. Besides, most of them offer extremely basic (read boring) sets of simple images (flowers, dinosaurs, etc). We were wondering if we can take any regular picture image and convert it into a pattern suitable (divide up the black and white picture into series of random patterns) for color-by-number pages. Is there any good software that allows converting a picture to a pattern suitable for coloring by numbers? Linux is preferable but Windows is also fine. Thank you."

4 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Since when are Dinosaurs boring by keithmo · · Score: 3, Funny
    When I was a kid, Dinosaurs were really cool.

    When I was a kid, they still roamed the Earth.

  2. Re:Since when are Dinosaurs boring by eam · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Since when are Dinosaurs boring?

    Jurassic Park III

  3. Potrace plus some stuff by toothfish · · Score: 3, Funny

    Peter Selinger's Potrace could probably be a good start. He links to a dude who uses Potrace in conjunction with a few other tools to create stained glass. He also links to one of my projects, although he calls it pocopo instead of pacopo. I don't think that pacopo is what you're looking for although it may give you some ideas.

    cheers
    p

  4. Re:Could you at least spell-check the title? by arb · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only Slashdot had editors - they could proof-read the submissions and fix errors like this.