Color Block Rendition Style

  Recently on the Studio Artist User Forum there’s been a number of user art posts that showcase various blocky abstraction effects. This post details a different approach you can use to build this kind of effect style, as shown above. The idea is to build a stylized blocky abstraction of the source image that…

Swap Evolving New MSG Presets

  The following MSG preset example shown was created by using the Evolution Editor to evolve new MSG presets. I started with the MSG background preset used in the yesterdays post. Directed evolution is a powerful approach to building procedural art and new processing effects. You can work with directed evolution in the Evolution Editor…

Soft Abstraction Effect

  The following imageshows a soft abstraction effect I was recently playing around with. We used the output of this effect in yesterday’s post on tiling as our initial starting canvas. Today’s post will detail how I created this particular soft abstraction effect. It’s created with a combination of the paint synthesizer and some interactive…

Two Vectorizer Tricks

  The following image is a fun abstraction effect you can create that utilizes the vectorizer and an image operation effect working in conjunction with one another to create the final abstraction. In this post we’ll take a look at how this effect was generated with a 4 step paint action sequence (PASeq)  And we’ll…