Vectorizer Close Packed Circles

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Today’s post shows how to configure the vectorizer to generate a close packed circle representation of an image.

Close packed circle representations are sometimes referred to as apollonian gaskets. We’ve discussed how to create this kind of imagery here before in the context of working with MSG processors. Today we’ll show how to configure the Vectorizer Shape Technique to generate images composed of close packed circles.

The Vectorizer Generation control panels settings below show what you need to do to configure the Vectorizer to generate close packed circle abstractions. The key is to use the Shape option for the Main Technique, and the ClosePack Circle option for the Shape Type.

You can use any Shape Scan option you wish. The Shape Scan determines how the generated shapes will be arranged on the canvas, and are all a function of intelligently analyzing the source image. Most of them are going to lead to a more stylized circle arrangement that contains a lot of holes. This is due to the nature of the adaptive shape layout, which assumes you are using rectangles or ellipses for fills for many of the Shape Scan options.

The two Cellular options for the Shape Scan are going to give the densest set of close packed circles. We used the Cellular1 option for the Shape Scan parameter for generating the image shown at the top of the post.

I set the Canvas Render Option parameter in the Vectorizer Drawing control panel to Vector Antialias to generate smooth vector circles. I also set the Background Fill parameter to Black, so the close packed vector circles are drawn on top of a black background.

Here is the preset 6-29-11 closePackCircles1.vec

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Vectorizer Close Packed Circles

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