Jazz Celebration

Stack filtering experiment using a folder of various old jazz poster art images. Stack filtering is the terminology for using temporal image operation effects to process a 'stack' of different images. The temporal ip op effects assume the stack of images are sequential frames in a movie, and the temporal processing pulls out all kinds of interesting visual effects as a result of using a stack of random images for input as opposed to normal sequential video frames for the time based temporal processing effects

Cool Cat

This gallery show stream output image i selected from a recent nightly gallery show run was automatically generated from a randomized folder of jazz poster imagery. Using additional mutating adaptive source masking. Now let's all visualize San Francisco's Fillmore district together.

The Quickstep

Is it a new dance. Or an old one. And how fast is that step anyway. Created using a generative gallery show technique. Not using self adaptive source masking. But we are using self randomizing image operation effects with randomized compositing. And possibly source feedback from the previous output image, based on a coin flip. And i just can't seem to get enough of those jazz poster images when we aren't feeding back the previous output into the source area. Or is it just laziness. Those jazz posters? Moving to a new set of imagery for tonights experiments. Kind of topical, so watch out. What surprises await us?

Jazz Rocker

He's rocking out. To a generative fully automated image synthesis process. Using a self randomizing image operation gallery show technique that only generates vector output. With a randomized gallery show source option. So it might be a randomly chosen image from that jazz poster image folder i've been over mining recently, or the previous gallery show output cycle. And a random wet wash paint preset for the start cycle processing, because it's raining here, so it only seemed appropriate.

The MD

Is he a good doctor? Or a bad doctor? No one knows. He seems to be playing around with symmetry. Perhaps using it like a crutch for some strange art related disease. Is he a DJ? Working the turntables. Or is he using automated gallery show processing. Perhaps using that self randomizing image operation technique, the one that forces vector output only.

Happy Sunday

Some days you just feel like dancing. Went for a sunday drive, had brunch, saw some cool local art.

Yet another generative processing gallery show mid stream grab. Random recycling of the previous gallery show cycle output back into the source image. Back to using auto-masking generated off of the source image. Working with the jazz poster art folder i've been playing around with lately. Using the randomized image operation vector output only gallery show technique.

Playing a Sad Song

This guy has obviously been reading the news too much these days. Because he's playing a real sad song.

Gallery show stream grab. Back to my jazz poster imagery (lazy), and surprise me auto masking (even more lazy). Random vectorizer technique. It also randomly feeds the gallery show output back into the source area. Which is great for those of you into severe abstraction. Because a world of severe abstraction awaits you there if you dare to enter it.

Be Free

A song for Ferguson. A song about injustice. A song about America.

Working the Bass Line

Gallery show mid stream image grab taken while processing some old jazz poster art images using randomized dynamic regionize paint synthesizer presets.

The Jazz Singer

Literally Al Jolson was the source image.  Although it may not be apparent at first. The magic of Studio Artist abstraction in action. Chosen at random by gallery show as it was working automatically to create a stream of effected imagery. Based on my particular gallery show preference settings.

Working with a random factory paint preset technique that forces a randomized dynamic regionization edit onto the randomly chosen factory paint preset. Not using any auto masking in this particular recent set of gallery show experiments. It seemed like it was becoming too much of a crutch. I need to really expand the range of potential masking effects available in that gallery show feature. As usual, there is so much more one could do as you start to pay attention to the range of possibilities. So many ideas, so little time.

Hip Hop Don

Another gallery show screen grab during testing. Finally nailed a bug we uncovered in an obscure corner of the vectorizer with this run.

Ad Man at the Jazz Club

This made me think of Don Draper sitting in a jazz club after a hard day drinking at the office. Once again, another gallery show run generative process image. I think i'll be breaking out of the gallery show ghetto i've been stuck in here soon, since there are some pressing hatching features that should be examined via custom programming in the current Studio Artist User Forum Challenge project.

So this particular image was generated using a new gallery show source preference that flips a coin between loading a new random source image from a specified folder, or loading the current last gallery show canvas image as the new source image. So it's somewhat generative, but can randomly reset itself as well.

Using the random vectorizer gallery show technique. And a favorites category filled with custom geometric transformation presets as the start cycle processing. Mutated auto-masking generated from the current source image was turned on to the Surprise Me setting. And random palette and source memories were turned on. Random compositing was not turned on.

Singing the Blues

More of my blue phase i guess i've been going through lately. Another gallery show experiment using old jazz poster art and randomly mutating presets.

The Endgame

There has been a lot in the news lately about the development of robotics. Eventually leading to what some refer to as the singularity. Here we see 2 two of our robot overlords peering back into the past from beyond the singularity. Or maybe they are just playing jazz, since this is another one of my gallery show experiments based on old jazz poster source imagery being run through self mutating gallery show techniques to create a generative image synthesis process.

Flow in Motion

This is actually an image taken from the jazz series i've been working with recently using gallery show to process a collection of jazz art posters. Not that you would ever know that if i didn't bring it up, unlike a lot of the other images in that series.
Like everything in that series, the final presented image builds up during a multi-stage process over several consecutive gallery show cycles. My custom water wash presets that i used for start cycle processing should be especially apparent in this particular image if you look closely.

Let's Dance

Put on your red shoes and dance the jazz blues. More gallery show experiments using generative processing and random compositing working with a folder of random old jazz poster imagery. Not getting to the level of imagery i was able to get to with using the old soviet propaganda poster imagery, but it's still early on in this particular experiment.

I lost a ton of really cool stuff last night because i forgot to run on the gallery show write enable flag for the open movie stream. So i'm going to add something to gallery show preferences that will just automatically make the image stream saving work if you have it turned on. You need to do 2 manual steps right now to turn it on, so it's a little too easy to mess that up, as i discovered last night.

Jazz Man

Paris does love their jazz. Working gallery show processing a folder of old jazz poster art. Using the random vectorizer technique with the new random composite feature turned on. And intelligent mutated source masking.

Blue

My mood for the evening i guess. More generative art experiments using some of the new gallery show features.

Night in Harlem

Jazz is alive somewhere. More experiments with custom generative art processes built in gallery show. We're trying to add some innovative new features to really push the boundaries of what you can potentially achieve with gallery show even further in Studio Artist V5.

Sometimes people bring up legitimate criticism about possibly getting lost or distracted with all of the functionality available in large monolithic programs (like Studio Artist). But then when you start using something like gallery show that allows you to utilize all of that diverse functionality in new autonomous ways, the synergistic capabilities of all of that diverse functionality working together to create custom generative visual effects opens vast and endless new vistas for exploration of what creating digital art could really be all about.

We've barely begun to explore or even understand everything this one small part of Studio Artist is capable of achieving. Begin your own unique journey and find out for yourself.