DualMode Paint MSG KaliedoSpiro Procedural Animation

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Today’s post continues our examination of some new DualMode Paint presets In Studio Artist. Today we’ll look at how to procedurally animate a MSG effect used as the Dual Op for a DualMode Paint preset by attaching temporal generators to editable MSG parameters.

The specific DualMode Paint preset we’ll be examining in today’s post is in the Run Loop Action : KaliedoSpiros category and is called KaliedoSpiro1. It combines dynamic paint particle painting with a MSG kaleidoscope DualOp effect, and is designed to be run in loop action to generate dynamic procedural animation.

This is an old post referencing older presets. Please see this movie tutorial to see the new Studio Artist 5 presets https://synthetik.com/dual-paint-feature/

The 2nd gallery image above shows the Editor control panel for the DualMode Paint preset, with the DualOp parameter set to MSG. The DualMode Paint preset will interleave a live MSG image processing effect into the live painting generated by the DualMOde Paint preset.

One thing to keep in mind is that typically for this kind of DualMode Paint effect, you want to make sure that your MSG preset is configured to process the current layer as opposed to the source image. You set this in the Editor control panel when in MSG operation mode (3rd gallery image above). Note that the Ip Source parameter there is set to Current Layer. The whole point of this kind of DualMode Paint preset is that the MSG based image processing effect is recursively processing the current layer you are painting into. If you used the Source Image as the input to the MSG processing effect, then all you would see would be brief paint flashes overlaid with a kaleidoscope rendition of the source image, as opposed to the dynamic paint animaiton effect you see when you run this DualMode Paint preset.

The 4th gallery image above shows the simple IO (input-output) connections for the 1 processor MSG preset used to generate the kaleidoscopic image processing effect. The MSG effect is based on a single 3CKaleido processor. Note that the IO (input-output) connections are the same as yesterday’s single MSG processor example. The 3 color input streams for the MSG effect (R Src, G Src, B Src) are connected to the 3 input Ports for the 3CKaleido processor (In R, In G, In B). And the 3 color output streams for the MSG effect (R Out, G Out, B Out) are connected to the 3 output ports for the 3CKaleido processor.

The 5th gallery image above shows the Parameter editing tab for the selected 3CKaleido processor. Note that 3 temporal generators (TG) are attached to the H In Phase and V In Phase editable parameters. A procedural noise TG is attached to the Horizontal In Phase parameter, and a sin wave TG is attached to the Vertical In Phase parameter. Both of these temporal generators are time based oscillators that modulate the value of the attached editable parameters over time in an animation.

When you use a MSG preset in a DualMode Paint preset, the MSG effect is time advanced 1 frame for each DualOp interleaved processing cycle. So the temporal generators act to procedurally modulate the MSG processing effect as the DualMode Paint preset paints in real time. This procedural modulation helps to create the visual complexity and movement seen in the dynamic paint animation generated by the live painting DualMode Paint preset.

Note that unlike the DualMode Paint examples discussed over the last 2 day’s posts, we are not doing any manual mouse or pen based interaction. All we do is start loop action and watch the effect procedurally self animate. Remember, a DualMode Paint effect is a combination of a paint synthesizer preset and an image processing effect (MSG in this case) working together to create the finished DualMode Paint visual effect. The paint synthesizer part of this preset is very similar to the one used in yesterday’s example. It’s based on Particle Paint Pen Mode painting vector bezier path derived paint strokes in a spiral path shape.

There are a lot of dual paint mode presets to play around with in the Dual Paint Module in Studio Artist.

A simple paint animation example of this DualMode Paint preset running in loop action is available to view here. The combination of the dynamic paint particles and the procedurally animated MSG kaleidoscopic image processing effect work together to generate an endless stream of continuously varying paint animation.

Categories: Dual Mode Painting, MSG

DualMode Paint MSG KaliedoSpiro Procedural Animation

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