Using Gallery Show to Preview an IP OP Effect

The following image gallery below off a few random Smart Blur effects generated by using Studio Artist’s new Gallery Show features to randomly mutate new image operation effects in real time. This particular Gallery Show feature is very useful for previewing the range of potential different artistic styles that any given image operation effects can…

Paint Stroke Orientation

  This post discussed how to work with the path angle control panel in the Studio Artist’s paint synthesizer mode to adjust the orientation of the paint path relative to the orientation of the source image. Depending on whether the automatic painting attempts to follow the orientation of the source or draw perpendicular to it,…

Abstract Generative Animation Using Time Particles and Water Wash Effects

  The image below is a frame capture from an abstract generative paint animation. The animation is based on the movement of time particles over the course of the animation. The paint time particles are part of a more complicated DualMode Paint preset that also incorporates locally adaptive displacement modulation. The water wash paint preset…

Directed Evolution of Simple MSG Vector Shapes

  In a previous post we showed how to build a simple MSG preset that stacked a 3C Abstract11 CP processor to overlay simple arrow-like vector shapes to build an abstract procedural image. In this post we will expand on what we built on by hand, using the Evolution Editor and directed evolution to build…