Digital picture converted to string art patterns

This is super cool.

I wonder if you could convert it to colour as well, if you changed the rule from a single thread for the whole thing to three threads for the whole thing (CMY). Might be quite an interesting effect since you'd need to sort of "smudge" colours across the image the same way you're essentially smudging the blacks.

Edit: Wait a minute, actually it wouldn't work because you can't combine colours. Put magenta thread on top of cyan and you'd get... magenta.

I wonder how much better a less greedy algorithm would be-- e.g. one that considered many possible moves a few positions deep, and took one step towards the best... or one that after finishing unwrapped the beginning halfway and rewrapped it backwards from the middle, then unwrapped the end, and rewrapped it forwards from the middle, and repeated until convergence.

I didn't see it mentioned, but I assume you have to do it with a single unbroken string, so it's a bit more involved maybe. I'd imagine you'd first generate all the lines that best approximate the image, then insert additional lines to turn it into one unbroken string where they're least disruptive.

I expect it was due getting early traction with indie filmmakers, particularly through its early support for high-definition videos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimeo

also maybe the uncluttered interface

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