"John,
That would be really great. I spend lots of time searching through Paint Synth menus for a parameter that is causing a problem, or for a parameter that controls what I want to do. I also end up switching back and forth…"
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Avoiding black brush strokes
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I'm generating image stream movies consisting of seemingly random brush strokes that eventually paint a recognizable image on a black background. The source image contains a significant amount of…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael OBannon May 12.
Torn edges
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I'm looking for a way to create edges in the SA image that look like torn paper. A movie brush might be able to do this, but I don't see a way to create continuity of the torn margin. I'm not…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by John Dalton Synthetik Software Jul 23, 2012.
New features
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John,Some of the new features you are showing on Happy Island Music look really nice. Are these new combinations of operations in the current version of SA, or operations in a future…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by John Dalton Synthetik Software Oct 26, 2011.
Daily Effects
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John, I notice that there haven't been any new Daily Effects for awhile. I've been using these postings to push myself to learn more about SA's features. I hope there will be more at some time in…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by John Dalton Synthetik Software Aug 31, 2011.
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"We've been playing around with an experimental 'get info' dialog for the paint synthesizer that reports on things like active modulators, active inhibitors, etc. Useful as an aid to help diagnose parameter interactions."
Michael OBannon replied to Michael OBannon's discussion Avoiding black brush strokes"Thanks for the offer, John. I found an earlier version of my preset that did not have the problem, and modified it. That usually works for me. I often cannot unravel interactions between parameters well enough to debug…"
"If you want to post one of our source frame images as well as the paint preset you are trying to use i can take a look at them both."
Michael OBannon replied to Michael OBannon's discussion Avoiding black brush strokes"John,
Thanks for the quick reply. Your suggestion of using the Lum Range control would be the best approach for this design. I was not aware of this parameter's actual function. When I set the range to high luminance values…"
"Another approach would be to select out the background. You could use normal selection masking of course, but then black paint strokes that painted into the active selection area would paint. But you can also use the selection buffer to just…"
"You can use the Lum Range controls (Lum = luminance) in the Path Start control panel of the paint synthesizer to restrict path start locations to specific luminance ranges in the source image. So you could use those controls to restrict the black…"
Michael OBannon posted a discussionAvoiding black brush strokes
I'm generating image stream movies consisting of seemingly random brush strokes that eventually paint a recognizable image on a black background. The source image contains a significant amount of black space, so some of the brush stokes are assigned the color black and paint over earlier brush strokes. I'd like to avoid that. Is there a way to prevent the brush from using a particular color (black in this case) or color range?From some of the tutorials, it looks like I could create a color…See More
Michael OBannon commented on Bernard Bunner's photo
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"John,
Please do a tutorial on this effect when you have a chance. I'm really interested in experimenting with it using video. I hope it has some "temporal continuity"! ;-)
Best regards,
Michael"
Michael OBannon commented on Bernard Bunner's photo
Cubisme
"John,
Thanks for the explanation of use of the Temporal Displace effect. After a few hours of experimentation, I think I finally have it working with single frames. I'd like to extend it to generating movies.
Is there a way to…"
Bernard Bunner replied to Michael OBannon's discussion MSG Documentation in the group MSG"If one is interested by the details of the Processors, I made a listing of them where you see inputs, outputs, mod inputs, etc.
Example : You can see that a Generator processors have no input, but only output, etc."
Michael OBannon replied to Chris Northcross's discussion Creating Video Artifacts/Noise effects in Studio Artist."I'd really be interested in a capability for producing "glitch"-style output from SA, too. In the past, I've processed a video with an SA effect, then abruptly cut back and forth between the original and the SA version in…"
"I'd like to see us move to using popup controls for some msg parameters. Like the Area Type parameter you mentioned. Since it selects from a small set of kernel options. So seeing those options in text in a popup control would make the editing…"
Michael OBannon replied to Michael OBannon's discussion MSG Documentation in the group MSG"John,
Thanks very much for the explanation and the resources. This information is a great help!
I would be happy to be one of those who uses directed evolution for all my needs. What I am finding is that some of the evolved MSG presets…"
"There is documentation for the RGBMinMaxRangeArea processor in the doc/msgprocessor folder (inside of the main Studio Artist 4 folder).
RGB_MinMaxRangeArea
Processes a color image with a spatial area nonlinear minmax range…"
Michael OBannon added a discussion to the group MSGMSG Documentation
John,Is there a single location where we can go to find out what each MSG operator does and how their parameters work?I've been trying to eliminate some rectangular artifacts from a MSG preset. (They are artifacts for me, at least. For someone else they might be a desired effect.) It was really difficult to know where to start looking in the MSG chain, so I simply started at the top and worked my way down. After an hour or so, I found an operator that had a strong influence on the effect…See More
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Bernard Bunner commented on Bernard Bunner's photo
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"Another idea : if you don't like letters, you can only use symbols like +,;-/%&'() etc, and this gives a handpainting style like this :
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"What i'm doing to generate this particular image is to spatially modulate between 2 different abstract procedural images. So i built a MSG preset that generates one color abstract image in the R Out, G Out, B Out image channels. And a second…"
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"My definition of procedural art is that the imagery is generated by algorithms or mathematical formulas. As opposed to something like manual painting. Where a person directly builds up an image by manually laying down a series of marks. Or digital…"
Mark Gould commented on John Dalton Synthetik Software's photohh14a
"John, if you don't mind my asking - what is your understand of procedural art or drawing as distinct from other functionality in Studio Artist. I'm writing a series of articles on generative art and there does seem to be a definition of…"
"I've very interested in adding additional functionality for this kind of thing. So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions about new or improved things they would like to see associated with generating visual possibilities, feel free to speak…"
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