pai-converter

Pixel Art Image Converter

Pixel Art Image is a image format created just as a test, and because I had nothing better to do. Fun fact: this was a shower thought.

It is horribly implemented, but takes a smaller file size than PNG for most images it was designed for (Pixel Art)

Size Comparison

Name	Size	PAI Size	PNG Size
Bassalt	16x16	712 bytes	3370 bytes
Block	16x16	50 bytes	131 bytes
Smiley	16x16	219 bytes	410 bytes
Brick	32x32	78 bytes	184 bytes
Tree	64x64	355 bytes	740 bytes

Installation

# Using NPM:
npm i pai-converter

# Using Yarn:
yarn add pai-converter

Getting Started

Import the package:

import { toPaiImage, paiToImage } from 'pai-converter';

Now you can save convert images to and from PAI and PNG!

Convert to PAI from PNG:

import { toPaiImage } from 'pai-converter';

toPaiImage('smiley.png', {
	seperators: { pixel: '@', line: '&', size: ':', multiLine: 'x' },
	quality: 11,
	writeToFile: true,
	fileName: 'smiley.pai',
});

Convert to PNG from PAI:

import { paiToImage } from 'pai-converter';

paiToImage('smiley.pai', 'smiley-converted.png');

Closing Note

• I'm not going to document the rest of this unless there is actually a want, but it is created in Typescript and therefor has types and interfaces :)