azarte: chessboard portraits

This is the code I use to make my series of chessboard portraits. Some of my photography work inspired by chess...
The idea is to take fragments of a set of images and build a chess board. A heat map created using a chess game moves introduce noise in some of the squares.

running the code

To create an image you need a set of square images and a chessgame in pgn format. First you need to load your configuration in a json file:

{
	"name": "test",
	"sq_size": 128, //the size of each square in pixels
	"size": 1024,	//the size of input images (note that 8 * sq_size = size)
	"noise": true, //you can set this to false, but that's boring
	"noise_width": 30, //maximum noise width (to change color's channels (0-255))
	"input_path": "input/img/test", //the folder with input images
	"output_path": "output/img/test", //the output folder
	"output_file": "test_1", //you need an output name
	"game_path": "input/pgn/pgn_source_00643.pgn", //path to the chessgame
	"piece_weight": "1,3,3,5,9,9" //relative pieces weight to calculate the heatmap
}

And then you simply run something like:

from chessboard_portrait import Portrait
p = Portrait("input/test.json")

standing upon the shoulders of giants

This little project is possible thanks to a lot of work done by others in the open-source community. Particularly in this case I need to mention:

• Python: the programming language I used.
• python-chess: the library which helps me to process chess moves.

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