There are more approaches for image to ASCII art conversion which are mostly based on using mono-spaced fonts. For simplicity, I stick only to basics: Pixel/area intensity based (shading) This approach handles each pixel of an area of pixels as a single dot. The idea is to compute the average gray scale intensity of this … Read more
Check scipy.stats.mode() (inspired by @tom10’s comment): import numpy as np from scipy import stats a = np.array([[1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 7], [5, 2, 2, 1, 4, 1], [3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1]]) m = stats.mode(a) print(m) Output: ModeResult(mode=array([[1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1]]), count=array([[1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2]])) As you can see, … Read more
Views are all drawn on the same GUI thread which is also used for all user interaction. So if you need to update GUI rapidly or if the rendering takes too much time and affects user experience then use SurfaceView.
Update: Corrected map rendering algorithm, added more illustrations, changed formating. Perhaps the advantage for the “zig-zag” technique for mapping the tiles to the screen can be said that the tile’s x and y coordinates are on the vertical and horizontal axes. “Drawing in a diamond” approach: By drawing an isometric map using “drawing in a … Read more
LibGDX is one of the best engines I’ve ever used, works on almost all platforms, and performs twice as fast as cocos2d-x in most tests I’ve done. You can use any JVM language you like. Here’s a 13 part tutorial in Java, and here’s a bunch using jruby. There’s a good skeletal animation tool that … Read more