So, let me ask about this ... Still Art PASeq Scripts > Non-Rep Generative and Abstract > Evolver
I can't figure out when using this particular script where it's picking up the colours from to generate a final product. It sometimes seems that it does use some of the general base colours in the image. Other times, the background/base image seems to have nothing at all to do with the final colours that start being filled in in the first steps.
I've tried using my own work as backgrounds, images from unsplash, simple geometric patterns I've created (even as simple as a single blue stripe on white), etc and I have yet to see a consistent pattern to the colours that are generated.
Can someone provide me feedback about what I'm seeing? Thanks.
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I should have mentioned that I'd prefer that the script picked up the colours off the canvas to use. That way I can block in a bunch of colours on a canvas and use the script to transform solid shapes of colours into a Gerhard Richter type final art that this script seems to do.
I modified the Evolver PAseq preset so it generates a color palette from the current canvas, and then uses that for the coloring for the 2 autopaint action steps. So i turned off palette save for those 2 autopaint action steps. The last 2 watershed sketch ip op action steps were also saving a color palette in the paseq, so i turned that off for those 2 steps.
I attached the modified PASeq preset below for you.
Note that this PASeq preset will use whatever the current # of colors is for the color palette. So you can manually set that if you want before running it ( Edit : Palette : Gen Algorithm : Set # Colors menu command).
We should probably make that recordable as a PASeq action step (its not right now).
Evolver1-ColorFromCanvas
OK, lets take a look at the PASeq.
The first AutoPaint action step is using the RGB 2nd match Color Palette option for the Color Mode in the Paint Color Source control panel. And a 48 Randomize using Cycle RGB.
So, it's choosing the 2nd closest color in the source color palette. And the source color palette is saved as a part of the paint preset stored in the action step.
Cycle randomization options can also introduce some significant color shifts, since really light colors could get randomized to dark ones, and vice versa.
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The second AutoPaint action step also uses a similar set of Paint Color Source control panel settings as described above.
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I hope the coloring makes more sense now. If you edit the source color palette part of the 2 AutoPaint action steps, you could change the coloring. Or you can auto-generate color palettes from your images if you want to use the colorings in specific images.
Absolutely lovely, and a perfect explanation, thanks!