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What version of Studio Artist do you own?: the latest

How do you use Studio Artist?: Way too much of my Studio Artist use is in Xcode and Metrowerks building and testing it.

However, I do a lot of work with digital graffitti databases as a source for art mapping photo mosaics. I used to do a ton of work using news imagery as source material for painting and custom treatments with the Texture Synthesizer based on the original custom photoshop plug-in called Wack i wrote in the 90's.

I also like to work with MSG Evolver to explore creating procedural abstract artwork. There's a definite knack to how you work the evolution controls to get good results with directed evolution. Hopefully this can be hidden from naive users in the future. I also think we're starting to cross a really interesting threshold in this area as the number of MSG processors increases and the evolution engine gets more sophisticated and i think this part of Studio Artist has a lot of unexplored potential.

I'm also very interested in simulations of traditional lithography and printmaking techniques. What i've come to realize over time is that a lot of these techniques have a particular visual aesthetic appearance that was actually caused by some technical limitation of the reproduction media the original artists were working in and was caused by what they needed to do to get around that limitation. It's a really good example of taking a weakness of a particular technique and turning it into a strength. And you see this all the time in the various printmaking technologies.

And i also create a lot of cover artwork for audio cds using Studio Artist. Supersizer is definitely a lifesaver for this kind of work so i'm a big user of that particular Studio Artist feature.

About Me:: John Dalton is the president of Synthetik Software and the creator of Studio Artist. When not busy programming he can be found creating digital art and music. Synthetik Software Incorporated is dedicated to creating innovative intelligent creative tools for visual artists and video professionals. Visit the main Synthetik site at www.synthetik.com to learn more about Studio Artist and MSG Evolver as well as explore additional image and movie galleries, tutorials, user forum, on-line store, news, and press releases. If you have studio artist news or tips you would like to share email it to studioartistnews at synthetik.com .

Website:: http://www.synthetik.com

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I've started a personal blog at studioartist.tumblr.com that aggregates some of my other blogs as well as chronicles what i'm up to for those who might be curious.

One of those aggregation sources is my daily art blog at happyislandmusic.blogspot.com. All of the images posted there were created with Studio Artist and often showcase the latest development features.

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Most Abstract Festival in the World

Thought people might be interested in this so i'm passing the information along.

The second edition of Punto y Raya (Dot & Line), which has earned the title of "most abstract festival in the world", will take place from November 25th to 29th 2009 at ARTS SANTA MÒNICA (Barcelona), with no entry fee.

the trailer is here.

The Opening Ceremony will take place on November 25th at 8.00 pm with the c… Continue

Posted on November 7, 2009 at 7:40am —

Visualizing Spatial Frequency

The concept of spatial frequency has come up several times here on the Studio Artist user forum. And i know that many of you have difficulty conceptualizing spatial frequency. So i wanted to post this picture which i think gets across the concept in an easy to visualize way.

The bottom… Continue

Posted on May 6, 2009 at 11:43am —

High Speed Paint Ball Explosion

This is a cool photo by Alan Sailer on Flickr. I love the look of it. It got me thinking that maybe you could create artificial version of this sort of thing in Studio Artist using displacement warping effe… Continue

Posted on March 25, 2009 at 11:10am — 5 Comments

Visualization as Art

I've been noticing more and more art projects that seem to be about taking a real world information stream and visualizing it in some way as a means to generate an artistic abstract image. Here's an example of what i mean:

"Building a More Meaningul Existence" by Daniel Everett… Continue

Posted on March 11, 2009 at 2:21pm —

The Printed Picture

I recently picked up a copy of Richard Benson's new book 'The Printed Picture'. It's a rather through journey through the history of the various techniques and technologies used for printing throughout human history. Over the years of Studio Artist development i've tried to… Continue

Posted on March 5, 2009 at 1:16pm —

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At 9:03am on October 25, 2009, John McKie said…: Thanks for your information. I will definetly follow up with tech support@synthetik.com

At 6:49pm on February 23, 2009, Tony Bouttell said…: You're the President of Synthetik, you are the creator of Studio Artist. You also program, create digital art and music and video. Do you have any spare time at all?

At 7:05am on February 16, 2009, Jim C. said…: Hi! My hard drive crashed, but I hesitate putting SA on my new HD because version 3.5 is ppc, not universal binary. Should I wait for version 4.0 and is 4.0 going to be Universal binary? Or is there a patch for 3.5 to make it intelmac friendly? I really want to make the best use out of the intel mac horsepower. Thanks! - Jim C.

At 12:02pm on October 14, 2008, Phyllis Stewart said…: I got a new Mac and have 3.5 on my old Mac. I can't find the number to install 3.5 again. I have a number for 3.0, but lost the upgrade number for 3.5. What should I do?

Phyllis Stewart
pstewart@innographx.com

At 11:50pm on August 23, 2008, ct1904 said…: my system crashed... took my version 3.52 with it... i have the original 3.5 disk/CD... how can i get the upgrade back to 3.52? BTW - I have a new iMac... 3mhz/750gb hard drive...4gb RAM

cheers -

peter
southpacific.peter@gmail.com

At 2:23pm on May 9, 2008, Lorenzo Amaduzzi said…: Next days I will try new uploads. Thanks,
Lorenzo Amaduzzi, Italy

At 9:41pm on November 1, 2007, Paul Perlow said…: Thanks, John... That's part of the overall plan. My goal is to complete 200 images (I am halfway there now) and then edit them down for a gallery show. And then a book. I may even have enough imagery to complete 300 images with Studio Artist. I have been looking into self publishing using print on demand. The publishers give very little in return. Hopefully after the show and book I will have the courage to learn and create an animated film using SA and the imagery. I have been reading up on the history of Coney Island and it's a great mirror reflecting just how far down our world has sunken creatively and in other ways. I have never been so commited to anything before. Working with SA is such a pleasure and a great source of creative freedom. I keep trying new things and am slowly getting the feel for a small part of the software. Lately using the bezier curves to create masks has been the new toy I have been playing with. At first I hated it compared to illustrator. Now I feel it is more fluid and a fun challenge.

At 2:53pm on September 17, 2007, NeoPhyte_Rep said…: Are you aware of the Association of Personal Computer User Groups, http://www.apcug.net/ ? You can look up local user groups on that site. They would probably like a demonstration of Studio Artist.

At 2:59pm on August 31, 2007, NewJack Rasputin said…: hi John,
i noticed you talking to frank N saying.....
"I tend to focus on coming up with ways to abstract 2D form and watching this makes me think that having some effects that abstract motion itself might be useful for things like dance applications."

I had been thinking how interesting it would be to have "look-ahead/behind" based filters, auto-region selection & vector grabbing. It would be similar to the technique used in video compression - calculating and filtering differences in the pixel state for every frame - and then comparing it to preceding and following frames. I'm sure you can imagine one million ways to have fun with this. Then your modular synth would have an envelope follower/multi-band delay! (or something..)