A cobbled together script to create focused (cropped and upscaled) timelapses of the r/place event. Based on 2023 event.

• Graphical cropping - Pick the area from the full canvas.
• Auto-timestamp - Start from when your area appeared in the event.
• Calculates closest scalable 16:9 (or 9:16) resolution.
• Pixel-by-Pixel upscale - Through imagemagicks convert -filter point resize.

• cobbled together tools with no solid end user in mind.
• when the image-processing started - if you want to abort, kill the terminal.

Have a directory with the raw images in the resolution 3000x2000. Raw files can be obtained here place-atlas-2023-scraped-canvas which has to be processed.

• First unpack the files
  • either with this oneliner: for file in *tar; do dir=$(basename "$file" .tar); mkdir "$dir"; tar -xvf "$file" -C "$dir" ; done
  • or with the mini-script unpacker.sh
• Then run the montage_all.sh script, takes quite a while (need to test, seems slow).

• ffmpeg
• imagemagick
• python3

• Get the script and requirements file.
• Create a python virtual environment
  • python3 -m venv venv
• Activate virtual environment
  • source venv/bin/activate
• Install required packages
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
• Edit the script and set your directory of raw images
  • Example: raw_images = "ALL/"