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CHALLENGE 1/29/2018: 0° 45° 90°

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Topic: CHALLENGE 1/29/2018: 0° 45° 90°
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 1/29/2018: 0° 45° 90°
Date Posted: 29 January 2018 at 5:03am

CHALLENGE: 0° 45° 90°

Don't worry. You don't have to be good at math for this.

For this week I want you to pixel a piece that solely consists of 0°, 45° and 90° lines which basically means that you can only pixel straight lines. Heaven for all you AA haters out there.
http://www.carseatsite.com/45degrees.png
There is no overall theme given. You can go crazy and pixel whatever you want.

Canvas Size - Max. 250x250
Colors - Max. 16.
Transparency - Optional.
Animation - Optional.

CHALLENGE RULES

  • Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to /pixels/submit_icons.asp'>submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
  • Only new pixels allowed.
  • Open to all members.
  • Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the /forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=8'>WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

CHALLENGE JUDGING

  • Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
  • Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
  • Winner announced the following week.

CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

  • Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
  • Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
  • 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
  • No matter what happens you get challenged :)

CHALLENGE VOTING

/pixels/poll.asp?id=1589' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

The 0° 45° 90° pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

/pixelart/118737.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>Peeking by /p/19218.htm' target='_blank'>jeremy
/pixelart/118725.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>0° 45° 90° by /p/129581.htm' target='_blank'>PixelDust
/pixelart/118697.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>Mario by /p/114706.htm' target='_blank'>Mechanic4Games


Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

/pixelart/118685.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>//\||///\\\/\||\/ by /p/43851.htm' target='_blank'>Terff
/pixelart/118713.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Present Mic by /p/51472.htm' target='_blank'>H0lyhandgrenade
/pixelart/118716.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Star Wars RPG Mockup by /p/149819.htm' target='_blank'>Bla2e
/pixelart/118746.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Look out! by /p/116337.htm' target='_blank'>green_imp
/pixelart/118741.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>City For.Rest by /p/142462.htm' target='_blank'>Jin9310
/pixelart/118698.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Earthshake Punch by /p/146906.htm' target='_blank'>ArmyFrog
/pixelart/118695.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Amulet by /p/72727.htm' target='_blank'>DieMango
/pixelart/118712.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Eraserhead by /p/28889.htm' target='_blank'>eishiya
/pixelart/118747.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Angle Rose by /p/154484.htm' target='_blank'>fkbm
/pixelart/118727.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Frog by /p/155327.htm' target='_blank'>zombieMode
/pixelart/118702.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Cat Nursing Hedgehogs by /p/48736.htm' target='_blank'>DimWiddy


Replies:
Posted By: fkbm
Date Posted: 30 January 2018 at 12:17am
I was thinking about submitting to this challenge. I'm fairly new to Pixel Joint and this is practically my first competition.

What I wanted to know is if this would qualify for the rules. I want to be sure I'm not submitting wrong images.


Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 30 January 2018 at 6:42am
@fkbm; It looks good to me. If you used only horizontal, vertical and the 45-degree lines, and if it's in max. 16 colors on the canvas no more than 250x250 px, then it meets the conditions of this challenge.

Posted By: Mandrill
Date Posted: 30 January 2018 at 11:15am
Irenaart put it perfectly.

I'll add the piece to the voting if you decide to upload. ;)

Posted By: fkbm
Date Posted: 30 January 2018 at 12:54pm
Awesome! I am going to try and do something better though. I needed something for a lockscreen and thought that since I want to do this challenge I might as well try. I'll upload something until the challenge ends. :D

Thank you very much for the clarifications.

Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 30 January 2018 at 2:44pm
Are the rules more about the art being made out of those lines, or about the clusters having edges that conform to those angles? My guess and hope is that it's the latter.

For example, apparently tiny triangles like those found in the lock above are allowed despite the fact that they cannot be made with those lines (overlapping lines or single pixels are required), so I'm guessing it's the edges that matter.
2:1 lines are apparently not allowed despite consisting of many horizontal lines, which again sounds like it's the cluster edges that matter, since these lines form a single effective cluster each.

I'm a bit worried about my entry because it has tiny triangles, a few 2px-long lines in isolation, and some pixels that hang diagonally off larger clusters. I think it's still very much in the 45 degree spirit, but I'm still worried it might not be accepted. Here's a portion with examples of all the potential "problems":

Posted By: PixelDust
Date Posted: 03 February 2018 at 2:47am

Update: Finished

Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 03 February 2018 at 2:53am
@PixelDust; Great work! I love it... Beautiful color palette and I think it doesn't brake any rule of challenge.

Posted By: fkbm
Date Posted: 05 February 2018 at 12:30am
This has been a nice challenge. :)

Hope I become better at it. :D


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