Petals is the second of two Flickr tools designed to decontextualize colour in an image. In this case, images are retrieved from Flickr using a keyword search.Once the images are loaded, flowers are generated dynamically, each one representing a piece of the image's colour space. A simple space-filling algorithm insures that the screen is more or less evenly filled.
The end result is a floral version of the photo. The effect is quite painterly, and varies quite a lot depending on the colour and composition of the source image. The application also allows users to enter in a valid image URL – so any image can be converted into a flower patch.
Petals was built in Flash, using ActionScript 2.0. It uses Kelvin Luck's excellent Flashr wrapper.
* Have you Petalized any of your own images? If so, please send them to me, and I'll post them in this thread for everyone to see.
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Hi,
I just stumbled across your site through your recent New York Times visualisation and have been browsing through your work… Some really nice stuff
And then I found this and I was pleased to see you used Flashr – glad you found it useful!
Kelvin (not Kevin!)
Hi Kelvin – good to hear from you. I got a lot of use out of your Flashr library, as you can see from this and other projects (Plumage, Index for X). It’s too bad that there isn’t anything quite as easy to use for AS3. For the Glocal Project I’ve home-brewed my own solution… maybe when I get some downtime I will clean it up and release it.
My apologies for the mis-spelled name. I will fix it right now!!
Hi, sorry to bother you, i downloaded your files, but when i open the patch, an error accord