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.

[@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

[@muhammedabdulkarim1536]

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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@oxcart4172]

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

[@ansichtssachen]

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

[@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!

[@christophemarois5423]

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

[@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!

[@artandmusic4495]

Good girl! Excellent work, highly respected! 🤠

[@dailyschun]

HOLY COW! THIS IS INCREDIBLE😍😍

[@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!

[@813Productions]

That's incredible

[@MoDFoX]

this is super cool

[@saathvikparupudi321]

That looks beautiful!

[@eylonlevy6234]

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

[@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?

[@Geosquare8128]

This is sick :o

[@gbrls_yt]

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

[@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.

[@MFunkibut]

Nice description of the algorithm!

[@PNM_79]

This is awesome Jenny!

[@jessewilliams102]

You deserve a raise.

[@smart7868]

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

[@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 !

[@EdD-ym6le]

Pretty Cool Jenny .

[@per-axelskogsberg3861]

The result was really cool.

[@gclinster]

This was really awesome. Thanks for posting!

[@JamNightingale]

SUBSCRIBERISED!

[@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.

[@dishwasher9851]

This is such a beautiful piece and a fascinating process

[@NiranshaDHutch]

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

[@jeelybeenz]

Really enjoyed this. Absolutely well done on the piece!

[@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)

[@zhihenglou]

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

[@angeliquelamri282]

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

[@kze7en]

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

[@daegudiva]

Incredible, really impressive

[@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!

[@JobvanderZwan]

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

[@haydennelson9404]

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

[@benbensen_02]

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

[@senas5213]

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

[@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.

[@Xaxxus]

Meanwhile at your standard technical interview: write this algorithm.

[@JonathasGroetares]

Great Job!

[@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.

[@TheMason76]

Really Amazing. *thumbs up

[@marcjosephcole1208]

nice video. also, love your sense of humor 😂

[@ivo35]

amazing work, really inspiring, well done Jenny!!

[@sydneyyoung18]

You never fail to amaze me!!

[@JennyMaAviation]

❤️❤️❤️

[@carlosknowlton]

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

[@ChuChuTrain]

I love your sense of humor! hehe

[@KJ7JHN]

Thats really cool.

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

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

[@minnalthevlogger5849]

Thank you for the idea 🙏and I completed one👍

[@RickyNizarulFauziBashori]

hallo, i have a few queastion,,,, what should i do to input if i have 25cm of circle board, and 72 nails? the code must be >> "py main.py 25 0.04 0.02 72 2500" ,is that correct? and also how do i know the output if "threads/potrait" fits well with image?

[@pankajverma1]

Hey can you share code. 🎖️

[@nakulkumar8912]

Super cool

[@shrubmans]

Great work & smart idea!

[@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)?

[@hvdveer]

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

[@josetorres4703]

Mi duda es como saber eo tamaño de la base circular para que quepan la cantidad de calovos en su circunferencia con con un centímetro de separación?podrias explicar como calcular eso por favor

[@EnglishRain]

Amazing!!

[@amber.roxane.martin]

Very creative!! Does anyone know the song in the intro?

[@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 😋

[@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...

[@BlueMoon93]

Is the code on git? Want to try this

[@RedstoneTek]

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

[@niteshaddagatla5250]

Hey, can we make this in square??

[@julienblanchon6082]

How many hours did it take for threading ?

[@chuang4254]

Great work. Looks awesome!

[@edwinmendivilbarcelo3417]

Amazing!

[@JomarAlminar]

ipressmo po pbaba..or sagad lhat ng string pra mwala mga shadows

[@FM-kl7oc]

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

[@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?

[@mohannadabid7716]

How do I use multiple colors?

[@madjet9243]

Hi. Where can i find the code generator

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

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

[@jessetemeng6350]

any softwares to generate algorithms for a portrait?

[@magdag8787]

Где можно скачать алгоритм ? Чтобы самому сделать такую картину

[@fatishoja303]

Anyone know or can share a link to make our pictures create and give us algorithms with free instructions?????

[@egeyuceel6809]

How did you choose the way to go around the nail, as there are two options for each of them? Would it cause an error and decrease the resolution if the wrong path is chosen?

[@MousumiHalder-r9e]

What website u use for thread art..?

[@isaacsy7075]

HOLY THAT’S AMAZING JENNY 🔥🔥

[@JennyMaAviation]

Aha thank you Isaac! ❤️

[@emresen3417]

hello, what edits did you make for the picture and what codes did you use, could you share it thanks?

[@kavorka8855]

Amazing engineering!

[@fatishoja303]

Which app we can find algorithms???

[@maanabdulkarim7474]

Hello is there any way to get an algorithm source code

[@Astus314]

Awesome work

[@RenatoYamamoto481]

Thats nice, would love to see you implement this with a cnc machine and make it automatic