Hi xiangz, Thanks for making a nice Go app.

A few suggestions or feature requests:

• Add an option to adjust the gaps between adjacent stones. Either as pixels, or as a percentage of the diameter of the stones;
• Add random rotation of the shell stones, so that all the grains are not exactly at the same angle;
• Add a few different grain patterns, because in real life each shell stone is unique in the universe.

Thanks.

Good suggestions. Item 1, 2 are easy to implement, and I will add them to todo list.
As to item 3, currently the default stone images were contributed by one user, it maybe difficult for me to get different grain patters. Anyway, I'll try. And now, you can supply custom images(blackstone01.png, whitestone01.png, blackstone02.png, whitestone02.png, etc), and I will add support of different patterns, if there are images named as blackstone01-1.png, blackstone01-2.png, etc.

By the way, if anyone have good copyright free stone images or board images to share(best personally created from pictures of real board and stones), please tell me.
If you have nice looking physical board and stones, you can also send me the pictures directly.

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Hi xiangz, I have nice-looking boards and shell stones.
I've provided photos to two other Go programs before.
I'm happy to take some new photos for you.

Ed, do you also have a nice Kaya board that has no grid on the back side? I am working on a high resolution goban file in different sizes (9x9/13/13/19/19) which I want to make available for free so ppl can have it printed on PVC in print shops … I’d be very happy. Currently I only have tiny samples which I had to upscale, doesn’t look nice (and is not the correct thing to do as any media person will know).

I could even place fine print (i.e. unobtrusive) credit on a side if you want, though I assume this would violate your esthetic feeling

Meanwhile, here’s my current 19x19 file (for now only JPG but will share as PDF when final), it’s too blurry for my taste, and I think the wood is too dark, and I was too lazy to fumble with curves and tone distributions when perhaps I could get a better Kaya background …

Curious … greetings,

Tom

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Thank you, please email the photos to easygo361 at gmail.

Hi Bonobo, I have two shinkaya boards; I don't have any kaya boards, sorry.
Also, the bottom sides of the two boards don't look particularly spectacular,
but I can still take some photos so you can decide for yourself.

I happen to have such a board (Well, it's 4-piece, so perhaps not very nice; also since the back side is the one always against table surface, there is some scratching and dirt on that side). I can try to take pictures if you want, although both my photographic skills and equipment are below par. PM if needed.

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Hi Bonobo, here's the bottom side of one of the shinkaya boards. As you can see,
it's really not particularly spectacular. Not to mention the curvature of the edges
from the lens. I doubt this is of any use to you. ( 3,072 x 2,304 )

Hi xiangz, I already emailed you 7 photos. I include them here in this thread, too.

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Thank you nevertheless, I’ll just have to look and try whether I can make something of it, and I’ll notify you if and when I have done so

Greetings, Tom

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Hi Ed, can I (try to, for now.. Getting them to work may be hard (I hope not!) use them for the tsumegos/diagrams I create for the NGA? So far I've been using jgoboard's assets (with permission to ignore the NC clause.)

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Hi RBerenguel, yes, have fun!

I have cut 12 or 13 white stones already, and made the test with just one (since changing white stones does not need to touch the code to choose white stones... Now I'd need to add another flag to tell the program how many textures for B and for W use ) Here's the result (which is far, far nicer than before!)

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Okay, wasn't that much hassle to add diff number of image handling.

This requires files black%02ds.png and same for white (that is, black01s.png, black02s.png, etc) Image with 14 whites and 3 blacks. Since in Ed's files there are way more white and black images, the final result can look somewhat better, yet. Also the black images I used could look slightly better if I corrected the black. But so far, pretty neat. Still using jgoboard's board, which is a fine looking grain.

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