Power Station

Some ideas that look like coming from a delirium in the dreaming room, sometimes trigger new possibilities. Thanks for that tip Alex. Words to live by.

Another gallery show automatic generative image creation process experiment. Working with a custom folder of new MSG presets based around the new quilt pattern generator processors. And there are quite a few of them to choose form now. I hand edited the factory MSG presets we put together so that this custom folder of modified ones doesn't set any fixed background,  but just overlays the generated geometric patterns on top of the existing canvas. Which is from the previous gallery show cycle. Also using the usual auto mask and custom start and end cycle processing i've been using in all of these recent experiments.

FireDancer at Dusk

Trying to break out of my lazy patterns by using some new custom preset folders as a part of my nightly generative gallery show experiments. Lazyness being a problem for all of us i think in many ways. It's easy to stick with old patterns that work, rather than putting the effort into trying something new.

So this image was grabbed from the output stream of a mutate current factory preset folder. That factory preset category folder contained a set of new MSG presets i put together recently based on some of the different Quilt pattern generators processors we've been working to add to MSG. Those self-stacking auto-quilt geometric patterns were auto-masked based on mutating 'surprise me' mask effects based on the current source image.

The source imagery was randomly chosen from a folder of Shutterstock images we recently purchased. And i was flipping around different custom favorites folders for the start and end cycle processing. The end cycle was using a set of custom finishing presets. Things like contrast boost and auto-sharpening effects, usually multi-ocatve ones based on PASeqs. Not totally sure about the start cycle preset used for this specific image, but i think it was based on geometric transformations.

Like all of this recent post series of gallery show images, the actual image build up is a generative process that takes place over several different gallery show cycles. I really need to add auto mutation options to the start and end cycle processing. Although you can kind of get that now by using temporal generators if they are MSG presets. You choose uniform random as the TG for the parameters you want to self-mutate. So that's a cheater way to do it using existing features. Like so many things in Studio Artist, there is usually already a way to do if you  think about it a little bit, and are willing to put the time into make it happen. Put the time in means doing the TG modulation editing to the MSG processor parameters in this particular case.

Note to Self: Maybe we should have an automatic meta edit to do that kind of manual editing i described above as well (turn on TG modulation in all of the parameters in a MSG preset with a single command). Would have made setting this whole thing up way quicker.

Stacked Patterns 2

Another stacked pattern experiment. The stacking occurs by using multiple MSG processors that overlay patterns. A series of overlay processors in the processor chain of the MSG Editor creates a series of stacked patterns in the output image from the MSG preset.

Stacked Quilt Patterns

MSG preset that uses several quilt pattern processors to build a stacked pattern.

Color Quad Block 3

More experiments with the new color quad block MSG processors. I seem to always get the best results when using the tiling processors if i fix the repeat ratios for the different overlays.

Color Quad Block 2

Testing the new color quad block MSG processors and associated automatic random configuration commands. Note the cast shadow effects that are an integrated part of the associated MSG processors.

Quad Block 2

Another overlaid quad block tiling pattern experiment.

Sub-Nested Quilt Tiling

If you pay attention to the ratios when stacking quilt tiling patterns you can generate some really interesting patterning. This is using a 1-3-9 nesting grid for the 3 nine block overlays.

If you look closely, there's a slight issue with the region seams because the top overlay has a pen size of 0. Note to self that I should modify the controls to make it easy to default to region color and size of 1 if you don't want colored pattern edges.

Hexagonal Nine Block Quilt Tiling

Added a new NineBlock quilt pattern generator processor in MSG that allows for independent coloring of the center, corner, and side blocks. This randomly generated quilt pattern is using a hexagonal tiling grid.

Odd Ratio Nine Block Tiling

Trying some experiments using multiple MSG NineBlock quilt patterns with successive odd tiling ratios. Added the cast shadow option to the new processor as well.

Nine Block Quilt Tiling

Adding some new quilt patterning generators to MSG in Studio Artist. This one is based on a Nine Block algorithm for generating randomized circular symmetric tiling patterns.