subPixel

Write text into subpixels and render it back in upscaled previews.
Inspired by this awesome video, "Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art!".

Currently only supports a small character set; see the .json file and the chars directory.

Installation

Make sure your Python environment has Pillow and numpy.

Usage

python write.py <text>

• Text is the text you want to write to subpixels, also used as the output file name.
• View your text by looking at the individual subpixels, with a camera or on an older screen.
  Or, use the subPixel Renderer:

python render.py <file> <height> <scale>

• File is the image you want to render the preview of.
• Height is the multiplier of pixel height, default is 3.
• Scale is the overall render size multiplier, default is 1.
• Including height is needed to use scale, currently, and due to a known bug, both are currently required arguments.

To-Do

• Fix bug with renderer requiring scale
• Negative padding (removing the 1 pixel strip if the length is 3x+1)
• Add more characters
• Display rendered image immediately?