Projects

The repo atlas, trimmed down to the projects that still have a point and the families that actually belong together.

This section is the public workbench for the GameCult GitHub org. Some repos are live systems. Some are research bursts that still smell faintly of ozone. Some are support machinery for the support machinery. The point is not to pretend every public repository deserves the same amount of ceremony. The point is to make the shape of the work legible without building a second museum for our own breadcrumbs.

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repixelizer

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repixelizer is a solver-heavy attempt to take art that merely looks pixelated and make it behave like real pixel art. Not just smaller. Not just blurrier. Not just filtered until the crimes become harder to prosecute. The repo is a long, public knife fight with lattice inference, adjacency, edge metrics, tile graphs, relaxation, refinement, and the small matter of whether the whole approach actually deserves to exist.

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Started

21 Apr 2026

Last Public Push

01 May 2026

Stack

Python / optimization tooling

Status

Active experiment

Founding Idea

The founding idea is one of those sentences that sounds deranged until you look at the output and realize the repo has a point: what if you could fit source pixels onto something that actually behaves like hand-authored pixel art instead of settling for diffusion, blur, and vibes?

Trajectory

The history reads like an optimization binge with a conscience. It starts cleanly enough with CLI scaffolding and documentation, then barrels through corpus benchmarks, lattice refinement, edge concentration metrics, phase reranking, line-aware energy, relaxation tuning, source guidance, benchmark corruption, and finally a full detour into tile-graph reconstruction modes. By late April the repo also has hosted queue work, GUI error handling, queue pressure logging, and the operational signs of a thing that escaped the lab and demanded a service wrapper.

That arc is part breakthrough, part cautionary tale, which frankly makes it more useful. The repo does not just record what worked. It records what obsessive iteration looks like when the underlying problem keeps refusing to become polite.

Ambition

The ambition is still excellent: restore coherence to pseudo-pixel art instead of just preserving its jaggies. But the public history also makes one other ambition visible by accident: figure out which parts of the machine actually deserve to survive. That is the healthier question, and the repo has started asking it.

History Tells On Itself

  • 2026-04-21 Bootstrap the repixelizer CLI project
  • 2026-04-22 Improve lattice inference with source evidence
  • 2026-04-22 Add line-aware refinement energy
  • 2026-04-22 Add experimental tile graph reconstruction mode
  • 2026-04-23 Document tile-graph algorithm map
  • 2026-04-29 Log hosted queue and job pressure
  • 2026-05-01 Log Repixelizer job actors for ops summaries

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