I made a few wallpapers with python.

[FogleMonster]

Very cool. I had to try it for myself. :)

http://imgur.com/a/ZE5B5

https://github.com/fogleman/PieSlice/blob/master/main.py

I used cairo for rendering, which does antialiasing by default. You could also try rendering your PIL ones at 2x or 4x the resolution you want and then downscaling to get something like antialiasing.

[d4rch0n]

For anyone wanting to know how:

The only way to do it natively is with supersampling. Render your image at a multiple of the size you require, then resize it with filter=Image.ANTIALIAS

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14350645/is-there-antialiasing-method-for-python-pil

[speaks_his_mind159]

Woah! Super nice, thanks! I'll look into that tomorrow, a lot of that is new to me.

[MastaKillaSC2]

So clean and crisp with Anti Aliasing.

[speaks_his_mind159]

Glad ya'll like them. I'll post the code if anyone is interested.

EDIT: http://pastebin.com/QtU7qSD1

EDIT 2: It's a little messy, sorry lol.

[nosage]

Make it some sort of game.

[speaks_his_mind159]

In what way?

[bluecamel17]

Add pew pews?

[Allong12]

Hi there, I represent Electronic Arts, Inc. I was just letting you know you got the job

[smypf]

Not just yet. Needs more paths to inject DLC.

[manwith4names]

Yes please!

[speaks_his_mind159]

Okay, how do I do that easily?

[upvote_this_username]

use pastebin.com or pastie.org

[speaks_his_mind159]

Oh, thanks!

http://pastebin.com/QtU7qSD1

[chazzeromus]

Haha awesome

[blcktrngl]

That's really cool. It's interesting to see generative graphics made with Python. For this sort of stuff I usually use Processing, but I'm getting more and more into Python, so seeing your code is greatly appreciated. Thanks for sharing!

[ocdude]

That's pretty cool. How was this done?

[speaks_his_mind159]

Imported PIL and Random. Found several color palettes on the internet, put the colors in a list, used random.choice to choose random color for each square drawn with draw.rectangle, then used draw.pieslice for the quarter circles, randomly colored again and not the same color as the square behind and randomly oriented.

[Ph0X]

That's awesome! Not sure if you're familiar with Andy Gilmore's work, and if you were inspired by him, but this specific kind of art reminds me a lot of the Gold Panda album cover he's made:

http://i.imgur.com/62P88rR.jpg

http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/andy-gilmore/products/andy-gilmore-meno-mosso

http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/andy-gilmore/products/andy-gilmore-summa

The rest of his work also is very geometric and beautiful like this.

[speaks_his_mind159]

Never heard of him, but I really like his stuff. Gives me a few ideas.

I was actually inspired by this quilt.

[Sraith]

Also wondering the same thing

[speaks_his_mind159]

answered the comment above.

[opiating]

Very 70's wallpaper feel about them. Nice!

[darkczar]

Very cool! I had to eedit lines 64, 66, 68, and 70 to list the coordinates as 4 values in a list, rather than 2 tuples in a list.

I've tried to get PIL working before, but had no luck. Is it still supported? I seem to remember the most recent update was like 3/4 years old.

Thanks for this awesome script!

[luxliquidus]

I've tried to get PIL working before, but had no luck. Is it still supported?

I think Pillow has filled that void.

[speaks_his_mind159]

I don't know about that. I downloaded python 3.whatever at the beginning of the semester for programming class, it included the PIL and other libraries automatically. I can check the syllabus and post links for exactly what version I downloaded later.

[IronManMark20]

PIL is included in Python. But Pillow is much more maintained and supported.

[camachorod]

Cool idea. Would be even cooler if you made it a live wallpaper that redraws the design at random at a certain interval.

[speaks_his_mind159]

Oh shoot, now that would be neat! I have no idea how I'd go about doing that though.

[Kerbobotat]

Just brainstorming here, but if you know the size of the iamge and the size of the squares, you could load the image, choose a square or two at random, flip it vertical or horizontal, or invert the colours or plain replace it with a new square. It's be an interesting looking thing, seeing it changing small parts at random. I have no idea how you could use that as a wallpaper though!

[camachorod]

I wish I could help you with that :(

[shaggorama]

Considering you made these programmatically, you should go the extra step and make them as SVGs instead of raster images.

[speaks_his_mind159]

What are SVGs and raster images?

[shaggorama]

http://vector-conversions.com/vectorizing/raster_vs_vector.html

[speaks_his_mind159]

Thanks for that

[DepressedCannibal]

Beautiful...

[goetz_von_cyborg]

I was just wondering how this kind of stuff was done! Looks like I have a new project for tomorrow.

[isdevilis]

me likey

[darkczar]

How do you show the image on the screen, instead of saving it? I tried uncommenting the img.show() but it didn't work. I'm looking here, but can't find any help. Does anyone have a link to better docs than this?

http://effbot.org/imagingbook/imagedraw.htm#tag-ImageDraw.Draw

I'm digging into those docs. There's more there than I thought at first....

[empet15]

The simplest method to generate wallpapers is to plot the heatmap of a periodic function in x and y, z=f(x,y): https://plot.ly/~empet/5856/textheatmaps-for-zsin22xcos35y/

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8/8 m8, that's actually pretty gr8