Larry wrote: > Does anyone have a good procedure for making a decent face file? As > you can see with the proper tools, I've managed to create one, but the > dithering is pretty bad. Has anyone else out there made a face, and if > so, how'd you do it.
I just made mine a few days ago. I'm not sure if it's any good, but here's how I did it. I used hpscanpbm to scan in a crummy photo of myself (in color) - cranked up the brightness. Then I used the imagemagick tools to increase the contrast a few times. Then I converted it to monochrome. I think the procedure will be different depending on the quality of the original picture. For example, I had some success by simply reducing the number of colors (using the -colors 2 option for mogrify) instead of dithering. I made a little script to simplify experimentation: cp jimhead1.pbm jimtemp.pbm ; mogrify -contrast jimtemp.pbm ; mogrify jimtemp.pb m ; mogrify -contrast -contrast -contrast jimtemp.pbm ; mogrify -monochrome jimt emp.pbm cp jimtemp.pbm jimhead2.pbm ; display jimhead2.pbm & Then I used an xbm2xface.pl script I found on the net (from an emacs or xemacs FAQ I think) to create the actual X-Face string. For some reason, doing 'cat jimhead2.pbm | pbmtoicon | compface' didn't work for me. Hope this helps. Cheers, - Jim
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