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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."

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  1. Jesus H Christ by Monkelectric · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just goto the 99 cent store and get him some books. Not everything needs to involve a computer

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    1. Re:Jesus H Christ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Are those books going to have personal pictures? You know, something a little extra that the family can have fun with. No? That's what I thought.

      Fucking asshole.

  2. Saving Money by WindozeSux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want to save money and have a picture of anything you want, you could draw one for him or encourage him to be creative to make his own. I always liked being creative when I was younger(and I still do).

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  3. Bitmap to Vector by Joebert · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone know how Flashes bitmap to Vector translations work ?

    Maybe Illustrator.

    Vecotrization seems the way to go.

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  4. Re:Could you at least spell-check the title? by mad.frog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To the bonehead moderators who marked the parent "offtopic" and "troll" --

    what the fuck is wrong with you?

    Offtopic, maybe a little, but geez, it's a grade-school level grammar mistake in the headline, for fuck's sake. The editors deserve to be slapped around for it; they should know better.

    And if you think that proper spelling and grammar are optional, well, I just feel sorry for you.

  5. Re:How discreet do you need them? by Apro+im · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I almost went into grammar nazi mode to correct your use of "it's" in lieu of "its". However, re-parsing the sentence, I prefer to interpret it as "I'd still recommend the comic, for it's intelligent humour," because it's a construction that needs to be used more often. So, feel duly admonished for leaving out the comma.

  6. Re:Could you at least spell-check the title? by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Grammar and spelling are indeed important, but throwing the f-bomb around like you're feeding the chickens isn't a particularly good way to look like someone worth listening to.

    Really? Is everyone on /. suffering from Tourette's Syndrome?

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