TFs: DARE TO BE STUPID

Bumblebee: The Movie trailer is out!

Spoiler: B:tM trailer

Starscream, my beautiful bird son!!!

 

well, that's painfully cute

 

Female lead woooooo
Also:
Dear director: that underwater scene looks like something out of The Shape Of Water

am I given a robot/human romance is that's what happening

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

There's a lot of stuff about the Transformers that doesn't make any sense, but why are there Pretenders, fully transforming Pretenders, that turn into vehicles, whose Pretender shells are not humans or monsters but are other, larger vehicles? It's not even like the Magnus armor or anything, or even Thunderwing's "I'm a robot that turns into a plane disguised as a samurai that turns into a plane because it makes me stronger". There's no larger robot form here to act as a power up. It's just a robot in disguise in disguise.

 

I think you've answered your own question

 

Spoiler: Lost Light

Chromedome oh my god



Whirl’s flirtation detectors are set to aemula endura 24/7



YESSSSSSSSS

 

Spoiler

Gee, Chromedome, how come your subconscious let you have TWO rewinds?

 

Jro knows how to punch people right in the feelings and I don't think I have a liveblog that's not just nine pages of "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA" in varying tones of voice text
This is officially the second ever issue that has made me physically cry

 

Spoiler: LL18

Are they now sparkeaters?

 

This is a WIP really but the sketch came out way better than I expected

 

So I've been exploring python's image processing capabilities while reviewing my image processing knowledge. It's been a few years so I pretty much started from the simplest possible things and am working up. Yesterday was very simple contrast stretching. (Took a washed-out grayscale image, made it use the entire value range from black to white.)

I've been using random screencaps of Soundwave from TFP for a lot of this. (Not the contrast stretching because it's already utilizing so much of the range that the difference isn't actually visible.) But I did want to make sure my grayscale conversion function worked okay on a color image. So I did that to Soundwave.

Spoiler: lorge image

Then I talked about maybe trying to preserve the deep purples while making the rest of the image grayscale. I had to change things up a bit because the above image actually is a grayscale image. It has no room for color data. So I had to change the image type to RGB. Then I decided to just look for pixels where blue > red > green and preserve those while grayscaling the rest as a start, just to see what happened.

It worked pretty well except I made a mistake. I was continuing to treat the non-purple part of the image as if it had only one channel (gray) rather than three color channels. I was only passing it one value, so it stuck it in the red channel and left the green and blue channels blank. The result was interesting.

Spoiler: big, hilarious

I was happy that it hadn't picked up sky pixels, as I had feared it might, but he was a bit splotchy. Also the other problem. Needless to say, I have preserved a copy of this version of my function for posterity. Then I fixed my original version.

Spoiler: last image

Still a bit splotchy, but not bad! May apply some gaussian shenanigans to the affected areas and see how that looks, as soon as I work up to implementing masks again. Which should be soon because I don't remember it being all that difficult. I'll get there soon enough.

 

and then, i did this :

Spoiler: blood.wav

 

So pretty much I made a mistake and Hawke made A Masterpiece.

 

honestly the middle image has a very powerful vibe, I kind of love it

 

Spoiler: if you really need to implement the script for yourself, now you can!

Written for python 3.6 with the Pillow library installed for necessary image stuff.

Code:

import PIL.Image

def BloodMatrix(filelocation): #takes file location as string
    'turn image into bloody hellscape with purple'

    try: #preventing a million obnoxious error msgs if you fuck up the argument
  
        im = PIL.Image.open(filelocation)
        pcopy = im.copy()
        im.close() #is this necessary? iunno
        pcopy.show() #comment this out if you don't want it displaying the 'before' image
  
        #create new, properly sized canvas for the upcoming work of art
        bloodbath = PIL.Image.new('RGB', pcopy.size)

        w, h = pcopy.size #puts image width in w and height in h

        #iterate through each pixel in the image
        for j in range(0, h):
            for i in range(0, w):
              
                pixel = pcopy.getpixel((i,j)) #copy pixel from 'before' image

                #if pixel has blue > red > green, copy it directly onto new canvas
                if pixel[2] > pixel[0] and pixel[0] > pixel[1]:
                    bloodbath.putpixel((i,j), pixel)
          
                else:
                    bloodbath.putpixel((i,j), ((pixel[0] + pixel[1] + pixel[2])//3))
                    #average rgb values (// forces an integer result when dividing)
                    #pass result value ONLY INTO THE RED CHANNEL BECAUSE YOU HAVE MADE A MISTAKE

        bloodbath.show() #just look at this mess. comment out if you'd rather not look

        return bloodbath #this function returns a copy of your horrible creation. no escape

    except: #the block of shame. something went wrong and we're assuming it was your fault
        print ('bad file')
        return PIL.Image.new('RGB', (1,1)) #placeholder image in case you were relying on an image return

To call this function:

Code:

BloodMatrix('C:\\Users\Whomst\Pictures\file.png')

or

theHorror = BloodMatrix('C:\\Users\Whomst\Pictures\file.png')

if you would like to store a copy of the resulting image in a variable for whatever reason

 

Spoiler: LL 18

Can't believe Dave Willis stole my joke.