I started with a factory paint preset that uses a MSG preset internal to the paint synthesizer. Because the paint synthesizer preset is doing it’s drawing based on a MSG preset embedded inside of the paint synthesizer, I can use all of the various Evolution Editor features we have discussed here in the past to…
An interesting discussion came up on the Studio Artist User Forum the other day, which concerned how to access a particular image stream I used in a post example. I gave a brief explanation as a reply to the user forum post, but we’ll explore this aspect of MSG editing more detail in this post.
The image above is a piece of procedural art generated from a directed evolution session that started with the MSG preset configuration we built in yesterday’s post. We’ll take a look at the process I followed to create this image, and reflect on the nature of hand built design vs directed random mutation and evolution…
Today’s post will explore another MSG processor that generates abstract shapes, where the shape positioning is modulated by an input stream. We’ll show how you can stack multiple instances of the 3C Abstract 5 Grid Mod CP processor to build up spatially variant abstract image complexity.
All of the different abstract images in this post were generated by working with Swap evolution in the Evolution Editor starting from the MSG preset we built in yesterday’s post. So we’re working with a fixed IO (input-output) routing configuration for all of the different effects. And the number of processors in the MSG effect…