Early Morning Launch

Early morning balloon launch in southern Australia. I started with a video pan and then processed that video footage with the Studio Artist 4 temporal scan tracker to generate the panorama image.

Young Brothers Kahului

Cargo container getting ready to be unloaded at Young Brothers in Kahului.

Scenic Kahului

A scenic shot taken in Kahului in the industrial wharf area. This started with a video pan that was then processed into a static image using the Studio Artist 4 scan tracker.

Harbor Temporal Axis Twist

This started with some moving boats shot with a video camera on the Aloha Tower dock in Honolulu harbor. The time axis of the video sequence was then rotated 90 degrees using the Studio Artist 4 temporal ip ops. You can see the boat movement encapsulated in the static output image.

Honolulu Tugboat

Tugboat passing by the Aloha Tower dock in Honolulu harbor. This started with some video footage of the moving boat that was then processed with some Studio Artist 4 temporal image processing to encapsulate the boat motion over time in a single photo.

Matson Containers

Barge carrying Matson containers out of Honolulu harbor. This started with a video pan that was then processed with the Studio Artist 4 temporal scan tracker to make the static panorama image. The video pan was taken on the dock at Aloha Tower.

Graffiti Wave

Graffiti movie brush rendition of a surfing wave. I think this came from some gallery show testing.

Random Mutate Gallery Show 2

More output from gallery show testing in Studio Artist 4.02.

Random Mutate Gallery Show

More gallery show testing, this time using the random mutate vectorizer options.

MSG Attractor Painting

Grayscale painting generated from a MSG attractor using the MSG path start option in the Studio Artist 4 paint synthesizer.

Paint Evolution

This fell out of some experiments with live paint synthesizer evolution using some of the new Studio Artist 4.02 features.

Turbulence

More gallery show output from Studio Artist 4.02 testing.

Color Wash

Abstract color wash image generated during a gallery show run while testing Studio Artist 4.02.

Vectorizer Head Abstraction

Another example of some output from a random vectorizer gallery show run using Studio Artist 4.02. This one also has a fractal like characteristic associated with the facial features, but different than yesterday's post. This one is cool because i'm not sure i could even figure out how to manually program this particular effect, but i was able to generate it using the gallery show features.

Vectorizer Fractal Head

Another vectorizer image generated from the new shape technique features i added to Studio Artist 4.02. This one is pretty cool because it ended up being a kind of vector fractal image. This was actually generated during a random vectorizer gallery show run.

Vector Abstraction 2

Some more tests using the new vectorizer shape technique options recently added to Studio Artist 4.

Block Heads 2

Another variation on the block head theme. This one was generated with some interactive warp post processing from an image generated by the Studio Artist 4 vectorizer shape technique.

Block Heads

Grabbed this from some Studio Artist 4 gallery show testing as it flashed by.

Paper and Canvas Simulation 2

Another example of a canvas texture simulation generated by using the new high level paint synthesizer macro edit commands in Studio Artist 4. Macro edits are cool because you don't need to get under the hood of the paint synthesizer to dramatically change the way a paint preset works. Obviously there are limits to single button editing like this 'add canvas texture' macro edit command, but it's a great way to quickly perform paint edits that you can later fine tune with the more detailed paint synthesizer editing controls if you wish. And of course if you don't want to get under the hood it does give you a lot of power to customize.

Paper and Canvas Simulation

Every few months someone seems to bring up a desire to simulate painting on a textured canvas or paper in Studio Artist. Of course there's a lot of different ways to do it, but sometimes it can be tricky to edit any arbitrary paint synthesizer preset to incorporate paper texturing without getting under the hood of the paint synthesizer. So i've recently been adding some new macro edit commands that let you perform high level edits on any paint synthesizer preset to add paper or canvas texturing.

Lunch at Nikos 2

Another temporal scan track panorama of the boat harbor taken outside of Nikos on Oahu. This started with a video pan that was then processed in Studio Artist 4 to get a static image.

Lunch at Nikos

Lunch at Nikos down by Honolulu harbor after our adventures in Wahiawa. The best and cheapest fish lunch you can find on Oahu, they're right next to the fish auction pier. Plus you can eat outside with a view of all the boats. Some of the coolest places on Oahu are actually pretty gnarly and industrial, as opposed to the typical postcard tourist destinations.

This started with a video pan taken from our table by the dock, that was then processed with the Studio Artist 4 temporal scan tracker into a static panorama image. That was then processed with the vectorizer to get the final image.

Adventures In Wahiawa 4

More processed video footage taken from our quest to find a cargo container filled with poison gas in Wahiawa. This started with a video sequence taken out the window of the moving car as we passed a series of ramshackle pawn shops and liquor stores that was then processed with the Studio Artist 4 temporal scan tracker to build a compressed panorama view of moving down the storefronts.

Adventures In Wahiawa 3

Our search for a cargo container filled with poison gas in Wahiawa continues. This whole series is from source video taken out the window of the moving car as we cruised Wahiawa looking for aloha exterminators.

Vector Scribbler 3

More experiments with vector output from the Studio Artist 4 paint synthesizer. The nice thing about vector paint abstraction is that you can scale the resulting output to your hearts content.

Gallery Show Vectorizer Mutation

I grabbed this image while running a Studio Artist 4 vectorizer mutation gallery show. The source image is a shot from the olympics. Gallery Show continues to amaze me, so much potential and un-explored territory lurking in there.

Vector Abstraction

More ideas for expanding the range of effects that can be generated by the Studio Artist 4 vectorizer's shape technique.

Lissajous Screening

Someone asked me about generating Guilloche patterns in Studio Artist. After thinking about it a little bit i realized you can use a MSG processor as the pattern generator, and then have that drive the paint synthesizer to draw in the patterning. You can also modify the paint synthesizer settings to build screening algorithms based on the patterning. I'm using a lissajous generator for this particular example.

Simple New Vectorizer Ideas

I've been playing around with adding some new vectorizer features in Studio Artist 4. This is a new simple option in the Shape technqiue that can be quite effective in some situations.

Adventures In Wahiawa 2

More video shots taken out the car window while going to our rendezvous with a cargo container filled with poison gas in Wahiawa.

Adventures In Wahiawa

Processed source video frame taken out the car window while driving in Wahiawa to have wooden marimba's placed in poison gas to kill termites that were eating them.

PASeq Mutation 3

Another example of an effect created by mutating an existing PASeq. The original effect is very different, so PASeq mutation really opens up a whole new world of automatic effect generation.