I like black and white but I'll go with the color one.

good tutorial, wow, what a lot of work to do it by hand, but the results are awesome.

Long time no see Kit.

I guess i don't know how to control where the triangles take place
here's a bad photo of me then polygon arted by hand

then the same photo by using triangulator

I also like by hand more because you are not restricted to triangles (sometimes i like to use four sided polygon to add some variation like in above image for the eyebrows,neck,and lips i used plenty of four sided polygons)

Have you guys seen this one of Marilyn Monroe? (I found this on the internet)

I really like the 3D effect created here especially around the chin and side of the face area. it looks like it's popping right out of the page. cool
here's the large version

The small triangle mole on her face reminds me of what i did for bruce lee's nipple (also a small polygon to show detail)

I never thought of doing components separately, that's a great idea I might have to try that. Thanks for telling me that.

This is sort of a desperate request to anyone out there who's an expert at Javascript(I know some javascript but I am nowhere near expert) and understands Triangulator App.
If possible this would be great.
1) To change Triangulator App to a Polygonize App which lets the user click on points (in order) to define a polygon of 3 or more edges then closes the polygon by clicking on the first point.

2) Then if possible, to add an option that defaults to gradient like how it's working now or if solid color is selected it'll use the solid color which is an average color of 3x3 or 2x2 pixel area that is in the middle of the polygon.

I also noticed that after adding about 20 or 30 points in triangulator app, the program slows down I am guessing because of the automated triangulation. I think with polygons manually defined by user, it might be faster since it just has to follow click instructions and not automate any triangulation. And not restricted to triangles, users can get more creative with their polygons.

If you are the expert, please do it, or if you know anyone who can do it please let them know. It'll be great for people who want to do polygon art.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can get this going.

Or if you know the creator of triangulator app, let me know so i can contact him/her and make a request

sharing my first try at polygon art (by hand) (on deviant art)
I like the face and the cloth on the forearms.
Not very happy with the chest area, looks like there's a big bump or a beach ball there, i was too into the triangles and did not think that it would create such a beach ball effect

It is still very good and keeps her mysterious look.

polygon zipped folder
I have altered the code (not very good, but it works) of triangulator app.
Now if you click 3 points and then click on the first point it closes off the triangle.
If you click on 4 points (in order, counter clockwise or clockwise) then click on first point it closes off the 4 sided polygon.
If you click on 5 points (in order, counter clockwise or clockwise), it automatically closes off the 5 sided polygon. Because I wanted the maximum to be 5 sided.
After drawing a polygon, you go on the next one. You can not edited created polygons.
And now it uses solid color instead of gradient (well it's a gradient but from the same color to the same color so it's solid).
I think it's a total hack as I am not very experienced with javascript.
Here are some images to demonstrate that it lets you manually creates 3, 4 and 5 sided polygons.

I changed the code a bit to leave vertices behind so that you can select them again. But don't try to move vertices, it will mess up the polygons in strange ways. Just simply click on them.
polygon with vertices left behind
After about 20 polygons or so the app slows down tremendously.
With the below image it was so slow, i had to export it 7 portions and then composed them later.
I didn't think GIMP could open .svg files, but apparently it does (GIMP is awesome).

One BIG problem remains. Speed.
After about 20 polygons or so (it's a guess) but basically as you add more vertices/polygons the app slows down tremendously to the point where you can click a number vertices and wait like 3 seconds or more before you see the polygon appear.
Too bad i am not experienced enough to figure out what is slowing it down so much. If anyone has a clue how to speed it up, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.

There's a bug, it's exporting 4 pixels to the right and grabbing average color 4 pixels to the right.
I only found this out when i was exporting different parts and they kept moving to the right and showing 4 pixel space. (You can see this spacing when you look at the car above at the edge between two doors and around the hood of car, that's the 4 pixel spacing).
So this version fixes that 4 pixels.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z3w8f03zv23gf11/polygon_4pixel.zip
This version also makes the outline of polygons to have width of .5 to get rid of the blank outlines so polygons will now meet at the edges and not leave any blank space.
This version will also grab average color of a 4x4 area instead of previously 6x6 area (of the average point of polygon points).

Elephant polygon art using the altered code.
And I dropped shawdow on parts such as body, then legs, then ears, then head and trunk to make it pop out a bit

K1TesseraEna
you're welcome, i was glad that i was able to alter it.
However i am not good enough to alter it so that you can move the vertices around and the polygons would change (the ability to edit). However i found that once i drew a polygon there was no need to edit so
Over 100? I am running it in firefox browser on windows 8.
What browser are you using? (edit: I just remembered you posted in the beginning saying you used Chrome, maybe I'll test it on Chrome and see if it's faster).

Edit: Just tried it in in Chrome, it's much faster and doesn't seem to slow down after 20 polygons Great!
But for some reason things don't start working unless I start off by clicking on "Delete all vertices".
Also, If i zoom in more than 100 percent, the work is not displayed at all (including vertices and polygons) and zoom back out to 100 percent or less than the work is displayed. In firefox i can zoom in maximum until it doesn't let you zoom anymore. Each browser has its advantages/disadvantages i guess. I might have to start using Chrome to get the speed that i want.

Such a beautiful apple found here by conbagui.
Must polygonize it
I was able to do this in one go with no slow down by using Chrome browser.