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Organic Complexity and Modulated Kaleidoscopic Effects
Organic patterns in nature are oftentimes balance symmetry making an symmetry breaking. The interaction of the 2 opposing symmetry making and breaking forces give organic patterns a visual complexity missing in artificial images that have pure mathematical symmetry. There are a number of different MSG processors that use internal modulation to make and break geometric symmetry transformation. Today we’ll take a look at a simple modulated kaleidoscopic source processing effect.
DualMode Paint Kaleidoscopic Effects
See the full gallery on Posterous DualMode Paint operation mode lets you build dynamic paint effects that combine live painting with an interleaved live image processing effect. Today’s post will explore some of the new KaleidoSpiroEvolver DualMode Paint presets. You can use these amazing presets to quickly generate kaleidoscopic paintings, or to generate live paint animation effects.
Self-Animating Kaleidoscopic Effect
We’ll finish up our recent discussions of kaleidoscopic effects you can create in Studio Artist today by showing how to use a temporal generator to create a self-animating kaleidoscopic animation. The particular approach we will take in this example also creates a self-looping animation sequence. The image above is a single frame capture from the 200 frame self-looping kaleidoscopic animation we will create.
Breaking Symmetry in Kaleidoscopic Effects
We’ve recently been discussing different approaches to building kaleidoscopic effects in Studio Artist. Two days ago we discussed symmetry vs breaking symmetry, and how breaking symmetry can lead to more organic looking effects that still maintain some of the perceptual trigger aspects introduced by symmetry in visual imagery. Today’s post will continue this discussion by exploring some of the modulatable kaleidoscopic effects available via MSG processors. Modulation being used as a way to break symmetry in a kaleidoscopic (or other geometric warp) effect.
Alternative Kaleidoscopic Effects
Studio Artist provides a wide range of different and unique kaleidoscopic effects that extend beyond the limited range of typical kaleidoscopic effects seen in other digital effects programs. The image above shows off an inverse kaleidoscopic effect (something unique to Studio Artist). This post will take a look at some of the other kaleidoscopic effects you can create in Studio Artist 4 that go beyond the norm.
Recursive IO Routing and Kaleidoscopic MSG Effects
Today’s post continues our discussion yesterday on kaleidoscopic effects. The image above shows a MSG kaleidoscopic effect using recursive IO routing as opposed to the non-recursive IO routing we discussed in yesterday’s post on how to build a simple traditional kaleidoscopic effect. Note that the kaleidoscopic symmetry has been broken in some visually interesting ways. We’ll explore recursive vs non recursive IO routing in MSG effects as well as the notion of symmetry vs breaking symmetry in today’s post.
Two Different Approaches to Building Kaleidoscopic Effects
The screen shot above shows 2 different approaches you can take to build kaleidoscopic effects in Studio Artist 4. The Interactive Warp operation mode provides a large number of different Kaleidoscopic effects that can be interactively manipulated in real time. The MSG operation mode also provides a vast range of different kaleidoscopic preset effects as well as the means to build your own custom and unique variations on these kinds of effects.
