Some output from endless stress testing

 

I'm running Studio Artist V5.5 torture tests on 4 different machines here at the moment. If i notice something interesting popping up i press the Grab button in the new Gallery Show Toolbar.  

Gallery show in combination with the new generative features lets us stress test the application in ways that weren't previously possible when you were only working with sets of hand built presets.  Because let's face it, if you are hand building presets you are going to actively avoid problem parameter settings (perhaps sub-consciously, perhaps on purpose).  But some of the generative options are more than happy to pile them on.  Windows seems to be more sensitive than the mac to this kind of stuff.

MSG brush load (a particularly garish example show above) is a good example. My guess is that no one used this feature of the paint synthesizer unless they grabbed a hand built paint preset we made that used it.  But now you can just turn on one of the generative paint strategy options in gallery show that cranks out endless automatically generated variations of it.  And i do mean endless.

So this is generating live MSG modular image processing effects within each individual paint nib being applied to the canvas from the paint synthesizer.  And the fan starts to really pump on my imac as the processor is seriously put to work.  And our memory allocation and deallocation routines are seriously put through the ringer.