diamond-art 0.1.0

Convert pixel images to diamond art templates

Diamond Art

What is diamond art?

Diamond art is a way of creating textured images by attaching small plastic gems to a canvas. The gems are facetted such that they reflect light, giving the finished product a glitzy look.

Kits are typically sold with a pre-printed canvas covered by a grid of symbols under a layer of double-stick tape. The symbols indicate which color diamond to adhere. Large artworks may require adhering thousands of diamonds in dozens of colors.

Installation

The tool can be installed from pypi. It requires python 3.7 or newer.

pip install diamond-art

Alternately, source can be downloaded from github and installed with

python setup.py install

Usage

First create your image. My 6 year old son created this image of a house using a pixel editor (scaled up for visibility).

This can be converted to a diamond painting using the command line tool:

diamond_art examples/house_6yo.png examples/house_6yo_canvas.png

which produces this:

When printed at 100% scale (approximately 300 dpi by default) the resulting canvas will fit 2.5mm gems perfectly.

License

Diamond-art is released under the BSD license.

Credits

• Created by Spencer Bliven

Changelog

0.1.0 (2021-11-21)

• First release on PyPI.