Makelangelo Update: Higher Resolution Images

v0.9.4 is now available from the official page and is, of course, checked into Github. There are two changes.

First, when dithering the image it now uses the average tone of the image as the cutoff value instead of just 50% grey. On the whole I find this means more of the important details are preserved.

Second, Settings > Preferences now includes an “Image Resolution” slider that goes from 50 to 500. The default value is 100. If you increase the value you’ll get more dots in your pictures that are closer together. Here’s a sample at different resolutions.

at 50

at 100 (as normal)

at 150

at 250

That last one is estimated to take almost three hours to draw!

On a side note, I love my personal wiki. I wrote down all the steps to update Makelangelo software the last time I did it and followed the steps today. I had forgotten at least three important things and found two ways to improve the method. Process control FTW!