Reproducing "Four-Byte Burger"

[twcustom]

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Fun video about manually approximating a piece of classic "lost" Amiga pixel art by Jack Haeger

The final result is here: http://xboxahoy.com/images/four-byte-burger.png

[Crown]

Great finding, brilliant video!

Thanks!

[TCD]

Love Ahoy's style of videos and it's great to see a new one Great topic too!

[Havie]

Really enjoyed this and what meticulous detail. Well done indeed!

[TCD]

PierreGombaudArt created an animated version on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comme...nimated_by_me/

[TEG]

Incredible work.

[Sani11]

Originally Posted by TCD

PierreGombaudArt created an animated version on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comme...nimated_by_me/

I think that is an excellent piece of art! I've never seen such before.

[ImmortalA1000]

lol this isn't how an expert would do it, what a nob.

[DanScott]

how would an expert do it? please enlighten us

[Cris1997XX]

Originally Posted by ImmortalA1000

lol this isn't how an expert would do it, what a nob.

Now I've got the confirmation that you don't know jack squat about pixel art

[Cherno]

Kinda related, I remember reading an article about how computer magazines were made back in the early 90s. It described the process of inserting screenshots of games into articles like previews and reviews;
however, more often than not, these weren't screenshots as we know them today. If the developer didn't provide actual image files, the writers had to pause the game during play, and then take a photo with a camera set up in front of the monitor so the image came out as clear as possible. The film was then developed like any other and the image scanned in so it could finally be put into the article before printing. I distinctly remember a photograph of the camera-monitor setup. I guess this explains the mediocre quality of many images in the magazines (made worse by tha fact that a lot of magazines used the fuzzy kind of paper, as opposed to the high-gloss ones we expect nowadays) and the trouble the Ahoi guy had when trying to recreate the burger.

[Pyromania]

Four-Byte Burger game coming up in the future?

[S0ulA55a551n]

Originally Posted by ImmortalA1000

lol this isn't how an expert would do it, what a nob.

Yawn. You are like the English version of Doomy.

[S0ulA55a551n]

That was insanely interesting for some reason. And insane production values for the video

[Nightshft]

Yes, he not only went the extra mile, but two. Awesome efforts and really nice to watch.

[jizmo]

Originally Posted by DanScott

how would an expert do it? please enlighten us

It is an interesting challenge for sure!

Obvious way would be to either first figure out the palette, ballpark the resolution and nearest neighbour scale to few iterations of that resolution to find out what yields the best results – or reverse these steps.

However, as the image is shot from a CRT screen with a analogue camera, developed and then printed I would assume there's distortion to the pixels, so the image is not in an usable pixel grid, and that the indexing would be plagued with noise and pixelation due to print pattern not present in the original image.

Si, if I was to try reverse engineer this image, I'd probably

1) Upscale the scan with a tool that removes the print pattern and other noise (like, Topaz Gigapixel), sharpen all the edges
2) Find the original resolution
3) Align the whole image to custom 6x pixel grid, zooming in and making manually sure the distortion is kept to minimum
4) Define the palette
5) Average every block in the 6x pixel grid to the nearest value in the palette
6) Once done, index with the palette and nearest neighbour scale the image to its native Amiga resolution
7) Onion skin the original for comparison to find if any pixels need manual changing or restoration
8) Et voilà!

ps. Kudos for the author of the original video by the way. It's a great video of modern restoration work, and I enjoyed a lot watching it a lot!