I Wrote an Algorithm to Draw Portraits from Thread | Thread Art

[@ameyakshirsagar4941]

Came here from Reddit. It's really beautiful. Keep it up.

[@willyricardo7009]

the picture or the engineer?

[@ihnxmanny]

I have one doubt how to get the algorithm??? Can u plz tell me 🥺

[@jumperdude1]

Jenny: yeah the process was pretty complicated. *Goes to stack overflow like a boss*

[@JennyMaAviation]

The best way to code!!!!

[@hkr667]

This looks like one of those coding projects where you go "right, the idea is simple enough" and an hour and a half of research later you went mad and conclude it's easier to design a space ship.

[@JennyMaAviation]

Hehe yes! At multiple times during the research phase I considered abandoning the idea altogether 😋

[@gustavofernandez2537]

@@JennyMaAviation Hi Jennyma, do you sell the algorithm?

[@automaetopia]

That’s insanely beautiful.

[@muhammedabdulkarim1536]

I came from Reddit too. And this is sooo amazing!

[@julieball1167]

12:53 I haven’t seen anything like this , it’s unique and magical, what a wonderful tribute to your parents hope they are both alive to be able to see for themselves how gifted their child is , Absolutely brilliant

[@ThePyraete]

I think you nailed it

[@amenicHD]

Wow! Best thing about it you were absolutely willing to follow through, no matter what come, true inspiration.

[@qc_ploum-zoum2]

I would have liked a little overview of the code, maybe in the next video! If you ever do an other one involving code.

[@phendur]

seconding this!

[@suckmydick2006]

@Rashard Kenn Castro don’t say give, ppl need to buy from you.this is a business not giving

[@angelbellarose8628]

Is there one with colour in it?

[@dailyschun]

HOLY COW! THIS IS INCREDIBLE😍😍

[@HarrySummerXR]

Thanks for sharing. This is definitely nontrivial work and a great crafting. Some ideas algorithm-wise: 1. Simulated Annealing might produce better result than greedy algo. 2. The current rasterization method of line is by calculating the length of the thread as n and plotting n integer points along the line. This may lead to missing pixels (breaking line). 3. To further enhance the resolution, considering the diameter of the nails and thickness of the thread might be necessary. 4. It would be interesting to have customizable shape of the canvas.

[@ansichtssachen]

just found this channel randomly and it's the best :)

[@haydennelson9404]

Came here from Reddit, hope you keep going good luck. I like videos where people use computers to solve engineering problems.

[@What_we]

I love your passion. I living at Taipei in Asia. This skill let's me connect with the China's Suzhou double-sided embroidery. Use silk thread to operate points, lines and surfaces to compose the picture

[@artandmusic4495]

Good girl! Excellent work, highly respected! 🤠

[@oxcart4172]

Who hasn't thought of doing that? (Apart from me!) It's beautiful!

[@7jack7]

You are the David Attenborough of string art. Very well done and presented. I watched start to finish and I have the attention span of a gnat. Thank you!

[@NSResponder]

FYI, you can make a pivot arm out of scrap wood and screw the sabre saw to it, so that you don't have to rely on your ability to follow a marked line. Sarch for "circle cutting jig", you'll find many examples.

[@OnlyGoodJawn]

I related to the part where your Dad becomes a clamp. Because I don’t have a Dad. Or a clamp. Great video! Very cool.

[@saathvikparupudi321]

That looks beautiful!

[@JobvanderZwan]

[impatiently clicks on channel before the intro is over, expecting more programming stuff] Wait, it's all about aviation? ... AWESOME!

[@MFunkibut]

Nice description of the algorithm!

[@christophemarois5423]

I just LOVE this kind of coding adventure. Superb result also.

[@eylonlevy6234]

A simple yet effective algorithm, and a really cool project. Looks great!

[@smart7868]

Came here from Reddit too. Something in common, studied Aerodynamics and CFD for 20 years, not my current job though.

[@Geosquare8128]

This is sick :o

[@iexusuxei]

Looks great! Was wondering if you were going to paint the board white to help with the contrast but I actually think the wood grain adds a nice bit of texture behind the threads! Also helps that your parents are ridiculously photogenic! (don't tell mine I said that)

[@JennyMaAviation]

Hehe they'll be happy to hear that :) I really like the more rustic look of the exposed wood (not that you can really see it), and it saves me a step as a bonus!

[@penguin1714]

Your ability to finish a project is what impresses me more than anything else. Sick project

[@JennyMaAviation]

Thank you! I was getting fed up at some points.... but luckily everything worked out in the end :)

[@kaleidojess]

That's actually amazing !

[@813Productions]

That's incredible

[@walts9364]

What a great video. This is very well done and is just fantastic. Thank you for sharing this with the world. Make a little Cnc adaptation and you could have a really cool machine that could spit these out in short order...you have a wonderful opertunity to make a fully automatic version... you need a small Cnc machine with a way to feed the thread...and tension it. Such a machine could make these in a short time from anyone's picture.... kids would love it as would lots of crafts people. You could do this on rectangular or other shaped canvas also..wonderful!

[@MoDFoX]

this is super cool

[@gbrls_yt]

The end result was amazing! I'd love to see more computery videos like this.

[@per-axelskogsberg3861]

The result was really cool.

[@olafzijnbuis]

Did you make a sign error in your program? Looks like the image is left-right flipped over. compare 09:20 and 12:34

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Oh, and LOVING your gorgeous dining room table. Beautiful patterning in the veneer.😉👍

[@benbensen_02]

09:30 I love that slight diss to heritage there 😂😂 Just found your channel by pure coincedence and just subscribed! 👌

[@PNM_79]

This is awesome Jenny!

[@EdD-ym6le]

Pretty Cool Jenny .

[@jessewilliams102]

You deserve a raise.

[@gclinster]

This was really awesome. Thanks for posting!

[@dishwasher9851]

This is such a beautiful piece and a fascinating process

[@Noname-ok4tf]

This is so cool!

[@zhihenglou]

This is awesome, huge respect for pulling through with this idea!

[@NiranshaDHutch]

Thank you so much for the code, this is so much to learn, mindblowing :)

[@MichaelCampbell01]

This was great; great subject, great explanation, great presentation. Sub'd. Loved the music, too. As a dad (and part time woodworker), yes, we can be clamps in a pinch.

[@JamNightingale]

SUBSCRIBERISED!

[@jamesallen438]

That looks amazing. I wonder what it would look like if you created a border to hide the nails with LEDs hidden inside to create a backlight.

[@jeelybeenz]

Really enjoyed this. Absolutely well done on the piece!

[@Xaxxus]

Meanwhile at your standard technical interview: write this algorithm.

[@marcjosephcole1208]

nice video. also, love your sense of humor 😂

[@daegudiva]

Incredible, really impressive

[@TheMason76]

Really Amazing. *thumbs up

[@JonathasGroetares]

Great Job!

[@KJ7JHN]

Thats really cool.

[@boldandthebeautifulgimbal2881]

Wow. You are really talented as well as highly educated. Difficult for me to full appreciate the detail of what you designed/built/created (can you double forward slash like that?). I wonder what you can design in wire frame? VTOL, 300 passengers or 70t lift capacity and Mach 4 or greater. Well VTOL might be asking too much. Mach 4 or faster would be very cool. Well really hot, starting to create plasma? Does that mean either go really high or deal with the heat? Has to sound cool. Well it doesn’t but what’s going really really fast with out sounding really really cool. Electro magnetic afterburners (just made that up, I know nothing)

[@hvdveer]

Really good video, good jokes too! And I love the end result.

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Woooow... Amazingly cool work, Jenny!❤👍 Very impressive, both the art and the algorithm.😉😁

[@senas5213]

I loveddd thisss!! You're so talented Jenny, please upload more projects like this!!

[@jedrzejw.9819]

I'm so glad I found you through Nebula! Fantastic content, great humour, and PLANES! Can't wait to binge watch your entire channel next week after I finish my final uni project!

[@JennyMaAviation]

Yay! Welcome and good luck on your project 😊

[@jedrzejw.9819]

@@JennyMaAviation Thank you so much!

[@minnalthevlogger5849]

Thank you for the idea 🙏and I completed one👍

[@carlosknowlton]

I'm super impressed with the effort you put into this! Saw this on Reddit, and I'm now a fan!

[@RedstoneTek]

Really cool project! Loved the walk through the whole process and the algorithm explanation :P (oh yeah came from reddit)

[@olekaarvaag9405]

I'm so tempted to try this myself now. I don't understand why the photo got flipped horizontally though? It wouldn't really matter, and would be easy to just flip input image, but I'm still curious as to what flipped it?

[@prcvl]

Something in the algorithm

[@makr2092]

Maybe the nails were supposed to be ordered clockwise?

[@ChuChuTrain]

I love your sense of humor! hehe

[@ivo35]

amazing work, really inspiring, well done Jenny!!

[@rpavlik1]

This is pretty awesome! Major props for the stamina to actually complete the physical product too. Hopefully dust won't settle on it in weird ways...

[@angeliquelamri282]

Vous êtes un véritable Génie !!!! Bravo!!!

[@kze7en]

Is it possible to create it on square or rectangle instead of circle?

[@montaylo]

Rất tuyệt.Cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ video.♥️♥️🌹

[@sydneyyoung18]

You never fail to amaze me!!

[@JennyMaAviation]

❤️❤️❤️

[@isaacsy7075]

HOLY THAT’S AMAZING JENNY 🔥🔥

[@JennyMaAviation]

Aha thank you Isaac! ❤️

[@FM-kl7oc]

Thread safe, or not -- it's drop thread beautiful :)

[@EnglishRain]

Amazing!!

[@nakulkumar8912]

Super cool

[@yakacm]

Before you started cutting I assumed you were going to use a piece of string attached to a nail, like you did to draw the circle, only attached to the jigsaw instead of a pencil. did you try that?

[@shrubmans]

Great work & smart idea!

[@psidud]

Might be a good idea to backlight it, or just shine a light on it since the wood seems fairly reflective. This video was quite surprising, was expecting to watch some airplane stuff while my code runs...not more code o.o

[@JennyMaAviation]

Oh noo! Well at least hope my code brought your code some luck so it runs smoothly 😋

[@MikelMcdaniel]

I had an extremely similar personal project some months ago. You can make your algorithm work well on more inputs by using an annealing approach over the greedy approach (i.e. randomly trying to remove and add lines in a loop and keeping the changes that make the output close to the input). It's a little slower but yields much cleaner results; takes about 45 minutes on my laptop using Python. and OpenCV for most of the image manipulation. For the hardware, this person made a really neat machine to automate most of the hours of manual labor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2LKiaiBe9ijnbs

[@tanveeransari2522]

Reddit bought me here ! Awesome work :)

[@user-mg4yw9yc7l]

Jenny Ma Where ever have you gone. We miss you. m

[@edwinmendivilbarcelo3417]

Amazing!

[@Studios2u]

DAD JOKES - Did we get the job done? Yes!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@chuang4254]

Great work. Looks awesome!

[@madilee3873]

Omg This is amazing 😍😍🤩🤩

[@menoking11]

This is awesome!! :D great video

[@kavorka8855]

Amazing engineering!

[@parmarcusriveraoman9094]

You woke up my coding interest that has been dormant for a while. Thank you! Btw, could you cover the Swedish aircraft, most notably JAS Gripen?

[@Astus314]

Awesome work

[@creativegirl1007]

Beautiful ❤️

[@RPBiohazard]

That’s awesome.

[@charlipocock8610]

I love this so much. I do basic, standard string art and have wanted to do portraits this for a while so I’m searching and it led me here. But I’m an artist - how on earth do I learn how to make an algorithm is the simplest quickest way?!

[@ernmatthew9638]

Download thread art.

[@angelbellarose8628]

Is there one which uses colour?

[@gunavardhan6236]

@The String Art Guy hey hi, Im a student and u require this code for my project, if u have the algorithm, pls help me out.

[@MylaTV]

I am a HUGE FAN

[@0animalproductworld558]

I am an electrical engineer and I am more of a hardware guy than software 🐁 I designed control and power systems 🦁 I also worked in an environment where we built solenoids and valves from actual bars of metals and electrical wires! 🐓

[@TheFunBox]

amazing! well done!

[@ramonhamm3885]

Awesome! What computer language is your code written in? Is it an .exe that runs on Windows or JavaScript for the web browser or?? Thank you!

[@CritiqueAI]

Does the algorithm take account the thickness of each nail (recognising that each has 2 entry and exit points)? Does it take into account the 3rd dimension (i.e. thread coming up higher as it becomes more dense)?

[@natediamond6312]

Was it flipped because of the orientation of the indexing? That is, I wonder how the picture would change if you order the indices clockwise vs counter-clockwise. Seems reasonable as any that it would mirror the end result! In fact, if you imagine that the "mirror image" of the indices is literally the same indices but in the opposite orientation, then this tracks!

[@leafart873]

Hai jenny...I'm from india..your string art amazing...❤️❤️❤️ Everyone love it. but...why you can't make with colour strings.... ??

[@tobn634]

Great video!