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Software to Divide an Image Into Discrete Patterns
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."
This could be wrong, and it could be like trying to kill an ant with a sledgehammer, but here's a possible approach.
A program like photoshop with lug-ins and image processing / manipulation capabilities may do the job.
Scan an image, and using a combination of options such as color-reduction, "mattisify" (or others, e.g. Bas-Relief, etc), etc... may produce an acceptable result.
Good luck
Sam
This is Slashdot, a geek site. Of course the submitter could just go to the store and buy some books, but where's the fun in that? Maybe just wants to see if it's possible to do it himself.