A depository for John Dalton's personal artwork. Studio Artist, MSG, procedural art, WMF, digital painting, image processing, human vision, digital art, slit scan, photo mosaic, artistic software, video effects, computer painting, fractals, generative drawing, paint animation, halftoning, video effects, photo manipulation, modular visual synthesis, auto-rotoscoping, directed evolution, computational creativity, artificial intelligence, generative ai, style transfer, latent diffusion
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Random Auto-Testing
We've been running a lot of automated testing lately with large preset collections in gallery show mode in preparation for the studio artist 4 release. Gallery show can be configured to run endless variations of different source images and presets. This image randomly popped up this afternoon during some testing. Just before it uncovered a bug, so perhaps the imagery for told of what was to soon come.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Panorama Video Sketch
Here's another sketch that started as a video pan taken out the car window with a Flip camera while driving. That was then converted into a static panorama using the studio artist temporal scan tracker. I then used the new sketch ip ops to build the final sketch effect. The scan tracker artifacts add into the whole mood of the final sketch, taking what could be considered a disadvantage or defect when view in one light and turning it into an advantage in helping create the final mood of the piece. Brian Eno often talks about this kind of approach when he discusses some of his work, and it's a message i try to take to heart whenever possible.
The top image is the final sketch and i've included the original scan tracker output from the video pan below to help show off the overall process involved in creating something like this.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Scan Tracker Media Abstractions
Things start to get more interesting when you use video scan tracker panoramas as source inputs for more conventional Studio Artist treatments. I went through a phase a few months ago where i focused on using the vectorizer or graffiti photo mosaics as the secondary treatments. I've recently been exploring some of the new sketch effects on this kind of source material. The source for this color sketch effect was the scan tracker image from yesterdays post.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Scan Tracker Alternate Reality
I love how the Studio Artist temporal scan tracker can give you this strange composite viewpoint of an extended time period of reality. In some sense it captures the jumbled chaos of life as we experience it far better than a cleaned up straight panorama shot ever would. This started with Flip video taken out the car window while riding through Waimanalo, then processed via the v4 temporal scan tracker to generate the static panorama image that captures an extended period of time as you move left to right.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Masters of the Universe 3
Combination of some new vector sketch stuff on top of a paint synthesizer photo mosaic derived from using the vectorizer as the shape generator. The colorization comes from some new v4 image processing brush load settings.
I think the amazing power of Studio Artist really comes into play when you start combining together the different functional operation modes. V4 really lets them integrate much more with each other, like using the vectorizer to drive paint synth regionization for instance. And i'm using image processing brush load, but i don't think i've ever scratched the surface of what you could do with MSG brush loads when processing photo mosaics in the paint synthesizer, an exercise left for the view for the moment i guess until i get around to exploring it.
The image is from more shots of A G on the hot seat, as he well should be these days.
Labels:
paint synthesizer,
people,
photo mosaic,
political,
vectorizer
Monday, February 23, 2009
Graffiti Abstraction
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Watercolor w Saccade Vector Sketch
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Used Car Lot
Friday, February 20, 2009
Vector Sketch Experiments
Masters of the Universe, Part 1
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday the current global recession will "surely be the longest and deepest" since the 1930s. Greenspan, a proponent of self-regulation, said he was "deeply dismayed" when in August 2007 the premise that firms had the enlightened self interest to monitor their own risk exposure "failed."
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Colored Pencil Sketches
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Aloha Tower Night Shot
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Aloha Tower Slit Scan2
Aloha Tower Slit Scan
This is a slit scan panorama generated from a Flip video pan taken in the parking lot of the Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu. The giant power plant with the smoke stacks blocking the harbor view from the city on the right side reminds me of the Pink Floyd Animals cover picture, all it needs is the giant inflatable flying pig.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Honolulu Freeway Exit Sunset
This was taken on the H1 freeway ramp while headed towards Waikiki for dinner. The static panorama was generated from a flip video shot processed with the Studio Artist scan tracker.
This image in particular got me thinking about some new contrast adjustment controls i'd like to have access to, so hopefully i can find some time soon to add those to Studio Artist.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Keo's
Saturday, February 14, 2009
MSG Attractor Abstractions
Friday, February 13, 2009
MSG Petroglyph
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
More MSG Experiments
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Stroke Count Modulation
I resisted adding inverse stroke count modulation to Studio Artist for a long time, but now that it's there i'm realizing it's actually pretty useful. 2 examples from some oil paint experiments done with a single press of the action button using inverse stroke count modulation to adjust some of the paint parameters.
Monday, February 9, 2009
SpiralLateral Examples
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Color Sketch
Saturday, February 7, 2009
BW Noire Cartoon Look
Friday, February 6, 2009
More BW Sketch Weirdness
Thursday, February 5, 2009
BW Sketch Weirdness
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Geometric Abstraction
Monday, February 2, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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