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The Problem

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The inspiration for this project comes from a challenge on the "Code Golf" section of StackOverflow, originally posted by user Helke Homba

(http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/33172/american-gothic-in-the-palette-of-mona-lisa-rearrange-the-pixels)

The crux of the problem is to take two images of equal pixel-size, and to recreate the second image as closely as possible, by best rearrang- ing the pixels of the first image.

My goal is to do this in a speedy and user-friendly way - not worrying about character count. The rearrangement is still coarse - I'd love even further refinement sometime :)

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Running the Rearrangement

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Within rearrange_pixels/:

python launch_switch.py [path_to_first_iamge] [path_to_second_image]

The paths to the two images to be palette-swapped are optional. If none are provided, then two will be randomly selected for you.

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Examples

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A few examples of the rearrangement are shown in examples/. This includes a gif of the rearrangement, and a 'still' of another swap.