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On the closure of the User Forum : An open letter to John Dalton
Hi John I have no idea what you are going through. However the impact you have made not to continue with the user forum and your desire keep it as a permanent feature as promised in the past is a big shock. It also betrays the faith and love we have shown in you and Studio Artist. Bluntly spoken, it sucks. That you have chosen to follow this direction in silence, allowing no compassion or understanding on our part is a betrayal of the deepest level. What is going on? This is not the John…
Read more…Interdimensional Coincidence Control
Hi everyone, I am glad the site is still here! Here is a new short video I made. All made in Studio Artist, several separate videos with alpha channels, then combined in layers with the music in Blender. A lot of MSG running through brushes, with several of the brush Path Starts being controlled by the MSG Scan Generator in the Generator part of the Path Start in the Paint Synthesizer. Also some MSG running through a brush, then making a video of that with an alpha channel, then making that a…
Read more…Whats going on with this site?
Has anyone else gotten a warning about this site disappearing? An email form just popped up, asking me to contract the owner and leave a message to let them know that they may loose their "network"Did Synthetik forget to pay it's bills, or is something else going on?I think 8 months is more than enough vacation time. Is anyone at Synthetik doing any development work at all?
Read more…Adding shapes to MSG SRC 3C Abstract CG or 3C Abstract CP or
Both these two SRCs have # Shape parameters.Does anyone here use these two parameters?I'm wondering if there is any way to control the parameters of the shapes themselves. size, angles, location etc.I've made some interesting composition, and would love to know how to make changes like, 'Rotate this shape' or move this shape etc. Thank!
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I tried to contact Charis by commenting on his page, but have not received a reply yet. Can you message members directly (to their profile emails)?
He is based in Greece so depending upon where you are there might be a time differential of which to be aware.
We spoke on the phone a few days ago. You said you would try to "hack" some presets to give me a starting point for creating such a look and post on the forums? Did you find time to do this?
Thanks,
John
Creating a circle brush nib for painting is pretty simple. You just use a path length of 1 and a simple default computational source brush.
Many presets use a paint fill setup fill from set to the paint color, and the fill to set to the canvas with a blend, so that will draw the source nib with solid color in the center and smoothly blending to the canvas at the edges. You want hard edges, so you might want to use the Fill Option set to 'from', which just uses the fill from setting and will give a hard edge to the circle. The reinitialize paint synthesizer macro edit (an edit menu in 3.5, accessed via the paint synth macro edits help viewer link in v4) will give you a hard edged fill from paint preset, so you could just run that and then set the path length in the path shape control panel to 1.
If you setup your paint preset for tiling, then you could run multiple passes with different sized circular brushes to build concentric circles. You could modify the paint coloring in the paint Color Source control panel for the the subsequent passes, using opponent or offset colorings to build the different color concentric circles.
The preset i posted recently or interactively building photo mosaics on variable sized grids shows how to work with the tiling parameters. So you'd use a similar approach but work with variable sized solid color circles instead.
Or as i mentioned before, you could build a movie brush of variably colored concentric circle images and then use the photo mosaic preset i just mentioned with that concentric circle movie brush as opposed to the graffiti movie brush it uses.
By varying the max brush size in the bush modulation control panel you can change the sizing and run multiple passes if you want. Hand painting at smaller sizes in specific areas is a good way to build up detail.
You can also adjust the Path Application Spacing if you want to shrink down the tiling spacing. Again, judicious usage of adjusting this parameter while doing some interactive drawing in specific detail areas is how you could artistically fine tune your final image, which i'm not doing here.
This preset could easily be modified so it generated a colored ring with a see through center.
The generation of the coloring variation on subsequent passes is actually pretty interesting and may be somewhat mysterious to beginning users, it's a function of how i'm working with the Dither Fill Option in the Paint Fill Setup control panel.
Tiling Circles1.zip