Show HN: Rust ↦ WASM, K-Means Color Quantization Crate for Image-to-Pixel-Art

10 months ago

Pixel-art converter available at https://gametorch.app/image-to-pixel-art
Free, no sign-up required, runs entirely in the browser
Uses Rust → WebAssembly to convert images to low-color pixel-art
Features include K-means palette extraction, transparency handling, and down-sampling
Public API allows for palette specification and returns PNG-encoded bytes
Requires Rust nightly or stable (≥ 1.70) and wasm-pack for compilation
Can compile directly via Cargo with specific backend flags
Output includes WebAssembly binary and JavaScript wrapper
Example usage provided for integrating into web projects
Project released under MIT license, developed quickly with o3

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