Color Your Friends and Family by Numbers
Via Gnomedex, I discovered Color by Number, a software package that lets you convert photos to colour-by-number patterns. You choose a photo, choose the brand of paints or crayons you want to use, and it generates a blank pattern.
While this is mainly of interest to those under 10 and over 80, I downloaded the trial version. I started with this photo of me, all sweaty in a pub after a hike in Deep Cove. If you look carefully, you can see the sweat line on my hat, which I use as an informal measurement of how hard I’m exercising. It’s only about halfway down the brim, so I probably didn’t go all out. Plus, if I recall correctly, it was a pretty hot day.
Which Color by Number magically turned into this pattern:
Which, if I paint correctly, will apparently look like this:
What a remarkable likeness. Still, I’m sure this would fascinate my nephew in a few years. You know, once he can count.
