88x31px geocities banner collager

Bricolaging software for taking source images and converting them into assemblages of 88x31px banners from geocities archive

https://hellnet.work/8831

To run

Step 1

If the filehosting of the data zips goes down, the scraper.py script can be used, it's a lot slower though.

Otherwise, grab the deduped zip file linked on the hellnet.work site. put it in the root of this repo.

Step 2

python -m venv venv

on osx/linux:

source ./venv/bin/activate

on windows:

./venv/Scripts/activate

and

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3

Pass the image you want to convert into a call to image_converter.py.

python image_converter.py imagefile.png

Step 4

wait

Step 5

done!

Process

1. load in all immages
2. Go through each image, and calculate mean color of image.
   • for animated images, there should also be a stddev calc, to determine if they are flashy. High stddev intervals means lots of variation, and therefore more likely to be a flashy animation.
3. Some images are absolutely massive. One at least is too large for me to process, causes a memory error. Don't use those.
4. Take in a source image, break into pixels.
5. Replace pixels with banners that have closest match in rgb value. Random pick if identically close to 2 different banners.
6. optionally squanch banners to squares.
7. compose this all into one image, animation included.

Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XRhzpTc_GA