Grid for artists

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  Image

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  Result

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  Canvas

Inspiration

I live with my sister, she is a plastic artist, and sometimes, she sees the need to create guide grids to make the sketch of an image, but this process consists of many measures and calculations that can be developed easily using some kind of software, some time ago I looked for a solution or some software, but this process was manual, using software like Photoshop, Paint 3D, etc, so I went to work to develop this Grid For artists solution.

What it does

Grid for artists is a program that receives as input an image, to which the grid will be created, and the dimensions of its painting canvas, in order to be able to create the measures for the margin.

How we built it

It was developed in MecSimCalc using python and the Pillow library, the rest of the program only consists of performing the calculations to generate the grid, the algorithm that calculates the measurements and generates the grid is simple, it is just a series of steps inspired by the process that is done by hand.

Challenges we ran into

As an inexperienced developer, the biggest challenge was to understand the Pillow library, since it was the first time I used this library and handled images, but, thanks to my experience as a mathematician, I was able to develop the algorithms with ease, as I was learning about this library.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Develop the software in record time, despite the lack of experience with the library I was able to develop the app with no time constraints.

What we learned

I learned a lot about how images are treated with python's Pillow library, that's all I learned, plus this is the basis of the project.

What's next for Grid for artists

To be able to expand this app, to add more options, more possibilities, to fit the needs of any artist, since that is the goal of the project, to reach all artists, to be able to help them with the need to create a grid to help them with their paintings.

Built With

• pillow
• python