''' the_man_with_the_personal_computer.py Robert Luxemburg, 2020, Public Domain The idea is to split each frame of the source video into 16x16 cells, each of which has a size of 8x6 pixels. Obviously, higher values give more accurate results, but take longer to render. In the first pass, each frame is resized accordingly, and the resulting list of 48-integer vectors is saved to disk. In the second pass, these vectors are used to populate a k-d tree (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-d_tree) that allows for quick lookup of nearest neighbors. Then each frame is resized so that its cells have a size of 8x6 pixels, and for each cell, the tree is queried for the best full-frame match. The above is optimized for speed by using cKDTree instead of KDTree, caching the cell frames in memory, and allowing multiple instances of the script to run in parallel. On a dual-core 2015 MacBook Pro, rendering takes around 60 hours. ''' import atexit import json import os import sys import time import numpy as np from scipy.spatial import cKDTree from PIL import Image video_fn = 'The Man with the Movie Camera.mkv' video_dn = '.'.join(video_fn.split('.')[:-1]) src_dn = f'{video_dn}/src' m = 16 # Matrix size m2 = m ** 2 cx, cy = 8, 6 # Cell size cs = cx * cy w, h = 1920, 1440 # Target frame size cell_w, cell_h = w//m, h//m c = 1 # Color channels fps = 24 kf = 1 # Keyframes (every kf-th source frame is a cell frame candidate) ts, ti = 1, 0 # Number of threads, current thread index cache = {} cache_keys = [] cache_size = m2 * fps cache_hits = 0 def get_image(i): global cache, cache_keys, cache_hits if i not in cache: cache[i] = Image.open(f'{video_dn}/src_{cell_w}x{cell_h}/{i:08d}.jpg') cache_keys.append(i) if len(cache_keys) > cache_size: del cache[cache_keys[0]] cache_keys = cache_keys[1:] else: cache_keys.remove(i) cache_keys.append(i) cache_hits += 1 return cache[i] def load_image(fn): image = Image.open(fn) if c == 1: image = image.convert('L') return image def read_images(): def save_data(): np.save(data_fn, data) if not os.path.exists(src_dn): os.makedirs(src_dn) os.system(f'ffmpeg -i "{video_fn}" -q:v 1 "{src_dn}/%08d.jpg"') cell_dn = f'{src_dn}_{cell_w}x{cell_h}' os.makedirs(cell_dn, exist_ok=True) src_fns = [f'{src_dn}/{fn}' for fn in os.listdir(src_dn) if fn[0] != '.'] src_fns = sorted(src_fns) n = len(src_fns) data_fn = f'{video_dn}/{cx}x{cy}.npy' if not os.path.exists(data_fn): data = np.zeros((n, cs) if c == 1 else (n, cs, c), dtype=np.uint8) else: data = np.load(data_fn) atexit.register(save_data) for i, src_fn in enumerate(src_fns): t = time.time() image = None cell_fn = f'{cell_dn}/{i:08d}.jpg' if not os.path.exists(cell_fn): image = load_image(src_fn) image.resize((cell_w, cell_h), Image.LANCZOS).save(cell_fn) if np.all(data[i]==0): if not image: image = load_image(src_fn) data[i] = np.array(image.resize((cx, cy), Image.LANCZOS).getdata()) t = time.time() - t if t > 0: fn = os.path.basename(src_fn) print(f'\rreading {fn} {1/t:.1f} fps', ' ' * 16, end='') save_data() return data.astype(np.int32) def write_images(data): global cache_hits dst_dn = f'{video_dn}/dst_{m}x{m}x{cx}x{cy}_{kf}' os.makedirs(dst_dn, exist_ok=True) src_fns = [f'{src_dn}/{fn}' for fn in os.listdir(src_dn) if fn[0] != '.'] src_fns = sorted(src_fns) n = len(src_fns) if c > 1: s = data.shape data = data.reshape(s[0], s[1] * s[2]) tree = cKDTree(data if kf == 1 else [data[i] for i in range(0, n, kf)]) for i, src_fn in enumerate(src_fns): if i % ts != ti: continue dst_fn = f'{dst_dn}/{i:08d}.jpg' if os.path.exists(dst_fn): continue t = time.time() cache_hits = 0 src_image = load_image(src_fn).resize((cx * m, cy * m), Image.LANCZOS) dst_image = Image.new('L' if c == 1 else 'RGB', (w, h)) for y in range(m): for x in range(m): crop = (x * cx, y * cy, (x + 1) * cx, (y + 1) * cy) cell_data = src_image.crop(crop).getdata() if c > 1: cell_data = np.array(cell_data) s = cell_data.shape cell_data = cell_data.reshape(s[0] * s[1]) cell_image = get_image(tree.query(cell_data)[1] * kf) dst_image.paste(cell_image, (x * cell_w, y * cell_h)) dst_image.save(dst_fn) t = time.time() - t fn = os.path.basename(dst_fn) print(f'\rwriting {fn} {cache_hits} {t:.1f} spf', ' ' * 16, end='') done = len([f for f in os.listdir(dst_dn) if f[0] != '.']) == n dst_fn = f'{dst_dn}/{m}x{m}x{cx}x{cy}_{kf}.mp4' if done and not os.path.exists(dst_fn): os.system( f'ffmpeg -r {fps} -start_number 0 -i "{dst_dn}/%08d.jpg" ' f'-c:v libx264 -profile:v high -level 4.0 -pix_fmt yuv420p ' f'-r {fps} -crf 20 "{dst_fn}"' ) if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) == 3: ts, ti = int(sys.argv[1]), int(sys.argv[2]) write_images(read_images())