/Painter

C++ program which deducts the best combination of stroks required to draw an image by a robot painter

Primary LanguageC++

Painter

C++ program which deducts the best combination of strokes required to draw an image by a robot painter.

Brief tecnical desciption (feature list)

The tool is built around optimization algorithms such as GA, Simulated Annealing

(almost up-to-date) Full technical description is currently avialable in russian here: https://github.com/donRumata03/ITMO.STARS_texts/blob/master/FinalResults/Painter.pdf

Installation && building

As you could have noticed, build system is CMake and the language is C++.

The third-party libraries are:

  • OpenCV (actually, only primitive features for manipulating with images are utilized, ML and NNs are not used)
  • Google's C++ testing library
  • sammycage/lunasvg — for both working with SVG as text and rendering it
  • argparse — for parsing command line arguments (marvelous!)

Apart from the vendored libs, there are also my (@donRumata03) projects which are ubiquitously used in Painter and are sometimes developed within the framework of Painter:

  1. https://github.com/donRumata03/pythonic — Common primitives of C++
  2. https://github.com/donRumata03/PowerfulGA — optimization framework (GA with author's modifications, simulated annealing, gradient descent with n_ary search in logariphmic space, Newton-Raphson method)

The «links» to most of the dependencies are situated in the dependencies directory. So, if you aren't going to commit into other libraries and just want to make the prject work, clone it with --recusive option git clone --recusive https://github.com/donRumata03/Painter

After executing this command, the dependencies will appear in corresponding subfolders of the ./dependencies directory.

If you want to provide custom paths to dependencies (for example, if you additionally want to contribure into pythonic or PowerfulGA or if you already have some of the third-party libraries), than you can specify the paths to dependencies in CMake/LibraryConfig.cmake file (of cource, firstly — create it):

set(CURRENT_OPENCV_DIR <...>)
set(CURRENT_GA_DIR <...>)
set(CURRENT_PYTHONIC_DIR <...>)
set(CURRENT_GTEST_DIR <...>)

If you have some questions, you're wellcum: t.me/donRumata03