which is cool. and it would be cool to say, find a granny square cardigan pattern with 24 squares, knit these squares, make a sick cardigan. but then i realized i don't know how to knit or anything. and once you accept that there isn't really a clear "application" and this concept lives on a screen, you open yourself up to more possibilities. a la birth of venus.

step 1: python script that looks at the original image and generates an excel spreadsheet the same dimensions (793 x 1322 pixels = 793 x 1322 cells), and each cell is populated with the hex code of the color that appears in that pixel of the original image

step 2: excel macro to generate list of every unique hex code that appears in the excel spreadsheet.

step 3: excel macro to calculate the R, G, B values of each of those hex codes.

step 4: excel macro to fill each cell with the color of that hex code (not necessary, i just like to do it).

step 5: I add in Saturation (the difference between the largest and smallest RGB value) and Lightness (average of all RGB values).

step 6: pick a color palette. i always find myself gravitating towards groovy seventies palettes with warm reds and oranges, so i decided not to do that this time. i looked on coolors and found a color palette that was all dark greens that were similar to each other. there were only like four colors or something in this palette. and to make it truly different from the other project, there should be a small gradient. so i determined the smallest possible change between colors and used an excel macro to color it. i was going to stop here and do the entire image in shades of green (inspired by that guy on tiktok that paints using only one color) but then. idk. i realized the "opposite" of each color was an equally subtly changing pink. so i imagined that the end of this process would be an "abstract" image, with subtle variations of pink and green, that would end up suggesting birth of venus.

so all told, i had 502 unique replacement colors, 251 of which are green, 251 of which are pink. (793 x 1322) / 502 = either 2088 or 2089 of each color.

step 7: find some method for finding the difference between the original colors of the image and my new color palette. I use a method of comparing, R, G, B, S and L:

((abs(R1 - R2) + abs(G1 - G2) + abs(B1 - B2)) / 3) + abs(S1 - S2) + abs(L1 - L2)

and you come up with something like this. on the left, those are colors that appear in the original image. across the top, those greens are the colors i'm replacing it with. in blue, that's the number of each new color i have to work with (it's just blue for contrast). and in the center, this pink area, that's a giant spreadsheet with the "objective" difference between each original color and each replacement color. it's pink because i have some conditional formatting applied, ignore that part.

and in this situation, you have some choices to make. in the original image up there, i used a schema prioritizing light and dark--i.e., i looked at the darkest color (pure black) that appeared in the original image, then found the closest replacement color (i.e., the replacement color with the smallest number). then did the same with the lightest color. then the next darkest, next lightest.

but i'm going to do it slightly differently this time. and i don't know how this image will come out looking.

if you look at the "first" green, closest to the left, and sort by smallest to largest:

you can see that these colors on the left are closest to the "first" green i've decided to work with. that might seem odd. i mean, #7F9800--> #00a94f are pretty close, but #A95400 is red. but that's just a difference in hue. really, #A95400 and #00a94f are very similar in lightness and saturation.

and this also calculates the number of times that color actually appears in the original image. that first specific green, #7F9800, only appears twice. but some colors, like actual black #000000, appear something like 46,000 times. and if you add all the numbers in the "frequency" column, it should exactly equal the sum of each replacement color (2088 ish x 502).

step 8: excel macro again. this one is complicated. basically it sorts that first "green" column (column E in my spreadsheet) from smallest to largest. then it adds each cell in the "frequency" column until it reaches or surpasses the blue cell above column E, which for this particular color is 2089. it copies those "original image" colors and their respective frequencies over to another sheet. for the color that surpassed 2089, it splits in two. then it deletes that column E. Then it makes sure "frequency" and "replacement color sum" still total. then it runs again on the new column E, until the whole spreadsheet is used up. and it generates something like:

[color from original image] [number of times that color appears] [replacement color, filled in]

and there's approximately 8000 lines of that.

i have the replacement colors in the order above. starting with vivid green, slowing transitioning to dark green, switching abruptly to bright pink, slowly transitioning to pale pink.

step 9: another excel macro. this one looks at original image broken down into hex codes, then looks at the generated list and replaces each [original] color with the replacement color, that exact number of times.

end result of these macros, following different "rules" of assigning replacement colors to original colors, is this:

which looks different, obviously. but it is the exact replacement colors, and same number of each replacement color, as the original up there.

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With hate crimes exploding in Canada in the last couple of years, Canada’s Senate has passed a bill that would criminalize more Nazis symbols, the noose and make it illegal to block people from attending places of worship. An amendment for Indigenous hatred was rejected before the final bill was approved.  Sen. Nancy Karetak-Lindell is Inuk from Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut and she brought the amendment to the senate floor.  She included the amendment: “making it a criminal offence to willfully promote hatred against Indigenous Peoples by condoning, denying or downplaying the Indian residential schools system.” 

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hewwo everyone, I will do a tl;dr you can skip to at the bottom, but for those who love context:

back in...March? April? the person handling bills out here in da woods where I'm living finally stopped memory holing what I, unfortunately, had also memory hole'd, which was that he needed to tally the last year's worth of bills and utilities he'd just been paying rather than calculating who owed what while we cared for a dying friend of ours all last year (and the year before, and a bit of the year before that, but it was at its most intense in that final year of their life so a lot of things kinda fell by the wayside) and so, y'know, he isn't like asking for it all at once but I've had to sorta trickle in chunks of it since he calculated, and this happened like RIGHT after I'd made a bunch of purchases for myself (well, "a bunch" for my disability income level lol, it's all relative I guess) and donated to quite a few folks in need, that I absolutely would not have done if I'd known that was coming, which hobbled me somewhat and then this year's been hectic and we come around to the celebration of life thing for our friend at the beginning of this month (July) and I can see that the two people co-planning it are getting super stressed about everything so I took food and snacks out of their hands with some help from friends of mine donating $$ to me to be able to cover that while I was struggling but then some MORE costs I didn't expect hit like right after I did that (and I helped out someone in need also right before the extra costs hit lolololol)...it's been a lot lol I've canceled nearly every monthly thing I had going aside from my cell plan, like it's dire lmao

tl;dr I am very broke, and living in a very rural area so grocery trips are sorta "whenever someone with wheels is going" (I am not a person with wheels so I can't control how busy other people are or aren't lol) and with a trip coming up near the end of the month but before my disability pay hits my bank account, what I have in my bank account would not properly restock me for the next stretch, and it would be very much appreciated if you could reblog and donate, or just reblog if you can't donate, even if all you donate is literally one dollar that could total up, with enough reblogs catching enough eyes, to the hundred or so bucks Canadian that I need hopefully in time for me to transfer it from paypal to my bank account before the grocery trip lol I only need like a hundo or so for a barebones shop that properly replenishes basics, a couple hundo would be a proper proper shop (grocery prices are wild out here lmao) and if by some miracle I could hit $300 or so I could actually have a good amount of variety in my diet between now and the next shop with what I could haul back out to the wilderness (and that is closer to what I tend to splash out on these trips, when I can afford it, which is usually always but not so much these last few months lol)

I guess that tl;dr is as long as the context but, yeah just please reblog and donate (even a dollar helps, seriously, it adds up!) if you can, and reblog if you can't, this transgender fender bender of an ape would mightily appreciate it praying underscore hands underscore emoji dot png

They get paid a small stipend by the Heroes Council for this, and they live off that.

No crime fighting, no obvious heroics, and they only took a Super Identity because it's technically hero's council policy. Nobody's ever seen them in a cape.

Like, they regularly act like they're getting away with something. They joke about how they get to earn money in their sleep. They show up to their hospital visits in deliberately ridiculous disguises, on the excuse that they need to 'protect their identity'.