Links to the full sets: 80×80, 80×80 Remake
General Differences
The original 80×80 set had 37 images for 19 levels and the remake has 8 for 5. I treated the remake as a brand new set – although the original 80×80 has over 4x as many images, the 8 images in the remake are twice as many as the last two sets I’ve posted (100×100 #2 and 120×110).
Settings
In the 3 months since I posted the 80×80 set, I have made many changes to the settings I use for generating images:
- The new color palette has more colors and higher contrast. The current version I use for initial generation has 12 main colors with 5 shades (from bright to dark) of each other. Over 1000 colors are available in the editor color palette.
- My program automatically increases the contrast of each image after initial generation
- The opacity of the similarity shading before contrast adjustments is a bit less on average
- Short lines are handled differently:
- I used to hide the lines (but show the dots) for lines that are 6 or less tiles long
- The lines are no longer hidden, but lines that are 15 or less tiles long use a subset of the main color palette that only has the darkest shades of each color (12 colors instead of 60)
The result of #2 and #3 (the contrast adjustment is the larger factor) is that the original set has much thicker shading and the images look blurry in some spots.
Image Comparisons and Notes
Image numbers are based on their order in the remake set, not the original.
Image #1, #7, and #8 (Level 15/60)
There are 8 versions of this level in the original gallery and 3 in the remake. The left side is from the original set – I picked my 3 favorite and matched them up with the closest image in the remake.
Top Left vs. Top Right:
The original highlights the center about as much as possible (given the color palette at the time). The remake also highlights the center, but has a secondary highlight around the edges.
Middle Left vs. Middle Right
These are extremely similar – they highlight virtually the same lines. The lines form an outline of the pattern but leave a lot of dark areas.
Bottom Left vs. Bottom Right
The bottom left was my favorite original – although the highlights are mostly along the edge of the board, it has just enough contrast in the center to make it feel less one-dimensional than the top left original.
The bottom right version isn’t really like it at all – though, I had to pair it up with one of the originals.
Image #2 (level 14/60)
This level had 4 images in the original 80×80 gallery – more than any level in any gallery except for the level above.
The first edition of the remake didn’t include any versions of this image in the gallery. The image that did make the gallery was generated after I published the set.
Although I have seen other parallelograms since, this level has the first – and probably the most impressive.
Image #3 (Level 21/60)
My approach with the remake was fairly similar – though instead of a “fire house” it is an “ice house.” This is one of the two images that improved the most from the original set, in my opinion.
Image #4 (level 24/60)
This is the other image that improved the most from the original set. I like to call these levels with complex patterns and lots of lines “epic” patterns – other examples include level 90 and 93 from the 100×100 set and 111×109 Level 25. The really good ones tend to be my favorite patterns at the moment – and this is one of the first really good epic patterns, in my opinion.
They also tend to benefit a lot from the new settings and line editing – though this is one of the few recent cases where I barely changed any lines.
Image #5 (level 39/60)
I still really like the original “P”, even though it might be a bit too blurry from the shading. Still, I had to include a version in the remake – and this is the one that made it.
Image #6 (level 10/60)
The new version is the only image in the remake that was generated before I started working on the set. Although this is the first time I’ve remade a full set, I have gone back and generated new images for old levels since switching to the new color palette.