BMP to XML (Aka importing drawings into PS)

[LigH]

To say it bold: Your approach is mainly a waste of space. You are not even getting close to art like Dannae's drawings.

The elements of vector drawings are primitives like: line, curve, ellipse, rectangle... descriptions of whole shapes or parts of their appearance. And for convenience, text or symbols at positions.

They are not: dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot ...

[Donari Tyndale]

You're missing the point. I don't want lines, bezier curves and whatever. I want pixels.

[Donari Tyndale]

I'm calling this victory.

[LigH]

Well, fine, experiment succeeded. But don't make me buy that map. It will probably slow down the game each time I look at it? 

[Donari Tyndale]

It's not much bigger than normal books. ~20k characters.

[Donari Tyndale]

And for those who are interested how this works: It takes your .bmp and for each non white pixel writes "''" (Two 's), for each white pixel it writes " ".

[derula]

I'm calling this victory.

There wasn't even a battle.
You can't claim a victory when one of the contestants hasn't even shown up.

[derula]

I override your victory claim with this proof-of-concept. (Being a proof-of-concept, it comes without any instructions, but basically: install ruby & rmagick; replace test.png with any png of your liking; execute convert.rb. If it dies with "too bad so sad," it means that the object limit is exceeded. Try shrinking the bitmap, or reducing the number of colors.)

[derula]

I have been informed by the wonderful person who drew that picture and took that screenshot for me that I should have given them credit. They also informed me that only n00bs double post. For my misdemeanor, I sincerely apologize. It will not happen ever again.