Saturday, April 24, 2021

Optical Flow Injection Modulation

 

Inaugural run paint animation test of the new injection modulation features in the Studio Artist V5.5 paint synthesizer.  Injection modulation is like bus routing in a DAW. In this particular example, i'm routing the optical flow angle to the direction of the paint, and the optical flow magnitude to the path length of the paint. World's simplest paint preset, use the Init QuickEdit and then the 2 manual edits i just said, and i switched it to straight lines rather than curved. And i'm clipping any paint strokes less than 20 pixels long, so they don't get painted.

I slopped down the world's simplest Vectorizer outline technique black overlay for the edging effect.  Then let it run.  You could of course finesse the presets to make this whole thing much more artistic. 

Which i took a quick stab at below, adding a 10%Mix fade to white and a SmartBlur action step to introduce some dissipation into the recursive processing over time. You put those at the beginning, before the painting. So they process the previous output canvas that is never erased.




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