Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI

flinkerflitzer 21 points 4 comments July 15, 2026
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Painterly is an application that "paints" input images stroke by stroke to produce digital paintings. GenAI is not used in any part of the production pipeline. There is a free demo available under Releases on the GitHub repo. Let me know what you think!

Discussion Highlights (2 comments)

verdverm

I'm curious about the greedy algorithm vs something like compressed sensing. Can you expand on the algo choice and how it works?

flinkerflitzer

Here is some footage of the program for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iWu4ArbD5Q

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