Here's my entry.
As the compo rules says
"You only need to look through the list of photoshop filters for inspiration!" and so I did, I found median filter interesting and searched for more information on how it's done. You can find more info
here and
here.During my tests, a bug turned into feature once more, instead of using a color buffer I used a grayscale buffer combined with color buffer to produce some sort of "painted image effect" which looked interesting to me so it was added here as an option.
The program will ask (console window) for how much passes the filter will run, which could be from 1 to 20, of course with more passes, more time it will take to render. Type "y" or "n" if you want to see the painter mode or normal median filter mode.
The program will only load
BITMAP images, to load a new image just drag and drop a .bmp file on the executable file or type: "Median_Filter your_image.bmp"