Here, I took my twitter profile picture and used @enjalot‘s image downscaling tool to reduce the picture to 50x50 pixels. I then applied Atkinson Dithering, and mapped one of my tweets (sorted chronologically) to each filled pixel.
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<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/3.10.1/lodash.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js"></script>
<style>
</style>
</head>
<body>
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3775316964/fe2ba0b0a4f0fb30aaef37c089553a8d.jpeg" width="400" />
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
<script>
d3.json('twitter_profile3.json', function(image) {
d3.json('tweets.json', function(tweets) {
// first process the tweets
var minOpacity = _.min(tweets, function(tweet) {
return tweet.stats.favorites;
});
minOpacity = minOpacity.stats.favorites + 1;
var maxOpacity = _.max(tweets, function(tweet) {
return tweet.stats.favorites;
});
maxOpacity = maxOpacity.stats.favorites + 1;
var opacityScale = d3.scale.log()
.domain([minOpacity, maxOpacity])
.range([25, 255]);
var tweetColors = {
'reply': [248,148,6], // orange
'retweet': [81,163,81], // green
'tweet': [0,136,204] // blue
};
tweets = _.sortBy(tweets, function(tweet) {
tweet.date = new Date(tweet.created_at);
tweet.opacity = opacityScale(tweet.stats.favorites + 1);
if (tweet.retweet || tweet.quote) {
tweet.type = 'retweet';
} else if (tweet.in_reply_to) {
tweet.type = 'reply';
} else {
tweet.type = 'tweet';
}
return tweet.date;
});
// some defaults for the image
var imageSize = Math.sqrt(image.length);
var scaleFactor = Math.floor(500 / imageSize);
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
canvas.width = imageSize * scaleFactor;
canvas.height = imageSize * scaleFactor;
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var data = [];
var threshold = 122.5;
// turn it grayscale first
_.each(image, function(pixel) {
data.push(Math.max(pixel[0], pixel[1], pixel[2]));
});
// Atkinson dithering
var tweetIndex = 0;
var tweetMap = {};
_.each(data, function(oldPixel, i) {
var newPixel = oldPixel > threshold ? 255 : 0;
var error = (oldPixel - newPixel) >> 3;
data[i] = newPixel;
data[i + 1] += error;
data[i + 1] += error;
data[i + imageSize - 1] += error;
data[i + imageSize] += error;
data[i + imageSize + 1] += error;
data[i + imageSize + 2] += error;
if (!newPixel) {
// if the pixel is black, then keep track of
// its corresponding tweet
tweetMap[i] = tweets[tweetIndex];
tweetIndex += 1;
}
});
data = data.slice(0, imageSize * imageSize);
var imageData = ctx.getImageData(0,0,imageSize * scaleFactor, imageSize * scaleFactor);
_.each(data, function(pixel, i) {
var tweet = tweetMap[i];
_.times(scaleFactor, function(x) {
_.times(scaleFactor, function(y) {
// first calculate row, then column
var index = Math.floor(i / imageSize) * (imageSize * Math.pow(scaleFactor, 2)) +
(y * imageSize * scaleFactor) +
((i % imageSize) * scaleFactor + x);
index *= 4;
imageData.data[index] = pixel || tweetColors[tweet.type][0];
imageData.data[index + 1] = pixel || tweetColors[tweet.type][1];
imageData.data[index + 2] = pixel || tweetColors[tweet.type][2];
imageData.data[index + 3] = !tweet ? 255 : tweet.opacity;
});
});
});
ctx.putImageData(imageData, 0, 0);
});
});
</script>
</body>