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X-Ray Vision

More structure decomposition experiments. I'm using custom built Paint Action Sequences to try out all of these different experiments. But it might be nice to provide a more central access point for this kind of thing.

Structure Decomposition 2

More experiments with working through the mechanics of some new structure decomposition approaches to creating automatic image abstraction effects.

I'm building custom Paint Action Sequences (PASeq) in Studio Artist to try out these different structure decomposition experiments.

Structure Decomposition

Trying some experiments with new approaches to building up structure decomposition in images to help create abstraction effects.

I tagged this structure analysis, but the algorithms used are very different than the ones used for previous images posted here with that tag. The new approach i'm pursuing is a work in progress.

Giorgio's Gallery in Hanapepe

Once you drive past the world famous Taro Chip factory chip factory we explored in yesterday's post, you'll turn left and hit Hanapepe's main street. And right in the center of it is Giorgio's Gallery. This was how it looked there at dusk as we kept searching for that famous swinging bridge.

Earlier in the day we toured the place. And met the man himself. And it's got quite a nice selection of awesome artwork for you to check out. I was really jazzed by one artist in particular, the industrial cityscapes of an artist named Dusit. Not something i would have expected to find hiding in a small gallery in Hanapepe on the island of Kauai. But then Hanapepe was full of surprises.

This photo above shows how the gallery looked earlier in the day when we went for our tour. It's really amazing, because the main street through town is really a straight line, but the rift in space and time apparently located somewhere near that famous swinging bridge apparently bends the fabric of time and space as you wander the streets of Hanapepe. So it bent the light coming into my camera. 

And there must be some kind of gravitational lens effects going on as well, because i swear i could see 2 different liquor stores that had the same artwork on the front of them, as seen in the photo above. Which looks exactly like the street scene that awaited me when i hoped out of our Alamo rental car and walked across the street to enter Giorgio's gallery.

Weasel Gift

And what could be better than a gift wrapped weasel. Rendered via structure analysis.

Beach View 2

More structure analysis at the beach.

Structure Analysis Visits the Beach

It's been a crazy, somewhat stressful week. Apple's WWDC announced a bunch of new programming api's on monday i needed to learn more about quickly. As well as a new version of OSX for Mac coming out later this year. And some other not so interesting distractions came up as well. So i missed posting for a day or 2. But now it's time to move on past all of that and get back to my daily art posts.

So i thought it would be fun to take Structure Analysis to the beach for some R and R for today's post. Structure Analysis being the arcane terminology i use for some exciting new approaches we are developing for abstracting visual imagery in Studio Artist.

To me, perceptual abstraction is very tightly involved in what visual artistic expression is really all about. Structure Analysis is just one of the many new visual abstraction tools available in Studio Artist.

Analyzing Structure

Running through some early tests of some of the new structure analysis code and thought this one was interesting. That's a clever way of saying i was too busy V5 coding to be very visually productive today, so i posted something old for my daily post instead (ha,ha). Maybe i should add a 'lazy' tag for posts like this.

I also had an interesting discussion today with an unnamed customer about what is Art. Art with a capital A i guess as opposed to a small a. I think we have very different definitions about what that word means. Maybe it's too loaded a term is one conclusion i came to.

I guess that somewhat heated interaction sucked up some of my valuable time, but i never consider interactions with my customers to be a waste of my time. It's actually a valuable use of my limited time. That's why i go out of my way to be unusually accessible to them.

I always thought of this as my daily art blog. But i wonder whether he would agree with that terminology? Or in fact be highly offended i dared to use the a word when referring to this blog. And i'm even using the small a, not the big A when i refer to my daily blog.

Maybe i should call it my daily Studio Artist generated visual imagery blog instead?

I hope we figuratively kissed and made up at the end of our discussion. But i don't think we're ever going to agree about what that dangerous a word means, let along that even more dangerous capital A word. Such is the strange world we live in. I do hope we can all learn to respect and appreciate each other during our short time spent together living in it.

Structure Analysis 3

Another structure analysis experiment. I really like what this algorithm does for rendering plants branches.

Structure Analysis 2

Another structure analysis experiment. Using the vectorizer.

Structure Analysis

Nailed it. My insight into a new way to do structure analysis is on the money. It's already leading to all kinds of interesting results. Incorporating it into v5 now. This should lead to some really nice paint presets that intelligently emulate manual painting of image structure.