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Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI
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Painterly is a new desktop application that converts images into digital paintings using a greedy algorithm rather than generative AI. The software applies individual brush strokes to recreate images, offering a manual, non-AI alternative for digital art creation.
Documentation | Changelog | Roadmap | License Overview Painterly is a desktop application that turns images into digital paintings. It works via a greedy algorithm , which attempts to make random brush strokes on the canvas, and only accepts them if they make the painting resemble the image it is painting more than it did before.
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