Help I can't stop coding! Here is some of the results from the a program I'm making creates a "mosaic" from discrete textures...in this case, from Minecraft.

The Problem In the most recent Minecraft version, Mojang stores the texture as separate PNG files, not as a single texture atlas AND there are a lot of transparent textures I didn't want.

The Solution So, it was a matter of modifying the "picture" class to accept the Alpha (transparency) channel, detect the textures I wanted, and storing them in memory.

• First I take an image and hit it with a a little Gaussian Blur

• Then, I shrink it down with a little Bilinear Interpolation.

• Then, I convert all the color data to OkLab colors.

Finally, I take each pixel color and match it the closest averaged block, building a lookup table. I use the lookup table to make the image at the end.

This is my repo:

Here are photos with / without the extra conversions.

Future Changes For those interested, here's a relevant video to color theory, taught using Minecraft: How to average color.