dark waters

 

the roadway to progression

 

the anticipation journey

 

genesis of a new beginning

Whispie

 

Took the adaptive color palette brush load thing from the previous photo mosaic post, edited it so it uses the procedural background texture instead of an image folder brush as the brush load source, turned on brush load EBM, and knocked off a quick paint animation with it.

Geodesic Anti-Alias Solid Brush

 

A few abstract experiments using the new Geodesic Anti-alias Solid Brush Type in Studio Artist pre_V6.

fixed color min max experiments 6

 

Working with gradient brush load where the fixed color local variance statistics are angle modulated by the path direction.

I was curious about using EBM features for this kind of thing, so i tried a similar experiment with no EBM above and EBM turned on below.  This particular paint effect effect loses something with the additional EBM tightness i think.  But as always, turning on EBM immediately gets rid of temporal flicker.

time particle animation from manual painting

 

Simple example of manually drawing a single autodraw interactive paint stroke that has time particles activated, and then animating that original paint stroke in a paint action sequence via automatic movement over time via the embedded time particles.  I get the feeling that most Studio Artist users are unaware you can do things like this with the existing program.

smart contrast dripper

 

attractor reactor experiments 5

 

attractor reactor experiments 4

 

Flat Region Colorize Ip Op effect has a vector render option now.  Used with self-reacting time particles.

attractor reactor 3

 

Similar approach to the last post using time particle movement base on key-framed bezier paths derived from adjacent edges.  These 2 are working with painting the particle trajectory while also using dynamic shapes.  The dynamic shapes are used with paint synthesizer brush load processing that has a EBM based flavor to the associated brush load processing.

attractor reactor 2

 

I'm using a set of key-framed bezier anchor points auto-generated from adjacent edge locations as attractors for time particle movement over time.  Swarm repulsion is turned on, and the paths are being drawn with vector paint to the next closest time particle at that frame.

attractor reactor

Experiment using key-framed embedded bezier paths that act as attractors for paint synthesizer time particles.

time particle shape dynamics test

Inaugural test run of a new kind of time particle shape dynamics.  You can see the slight bug up at the top i need to deal with.  But the basic idea works.

Quick test of shape dynamics in an EBM vector paint preset.

 

reactive particles

 

burblers

 

close pack experiments 6

 

transformer 6

 

transformer 3

 

Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) single path optimization paint animation.  Above is run on every frame.  Below is bezier embedded with 10 key-frames.  There is an issue when you try to build a TSP single path off of the internal bezier path start positions associated with interpolation of really small bezier paths in a PASeq.  Has to do with the raster path interpolation part of how that works when the raster path length is 1.  We really need to support single points in our bezier path frame to pull off a real fix for this.  I added a hack to pre_V6 to improve it (after wasting most of the day figuring out the issue), but you can still see some artifacts in the animation below associated with it.