Playground 060820
3d Models as Paint Brushes, Plus Glazes Checkered Wrasse by fishzombie on TurboSquid You may have heard of TurboSquid, maybe smiled to …
Playground (ended 2021)
Inward with the Droste Spiral
Andriyko Podilnyk on unsplash.com. https://unsplash.com/photos/WjJmdcpA4Eg Inward with the Droste Spiral The photo above by Andriyko Podilnyk looks up a fancy stairwell. …
Playground – Layered Shapes
Layered Shapes I’ve started working with another meaning-bearing aspect of image-joinery, the silhouette. Even with plain metal cookie cutters you can tell an Abraham Lincoln …
Using Photoshop Paintbucket Tool and Patterns
Two photos from unsplash.com. Church by ioana-cristiana-gT-b_BSE81I-unsplash. Ship by dylan-shaw-30Oov5eaSso-unsplash. Using Photoshop Paintbucket Tool and Patterns to Make Abstractions from Photos In today's …
LuxDraw by Norbyte
LuxDraw by Norbyte Couple of months back I bought the app LuxDraw from Norbyte. It offered to let me draw overall patterns. I’m a …
Including a Motif
Including a Motif Every once in awhile I come across an image -- you can see it in the first image here, 4 …
Blue Light
Blue Light Started playing with this photo of a blue light along with other textures.com and Unsplash images that were in a folder.
The App Girih
The App Girih This isn’t the feature I’d planned but I have yet again (again again again…) had my Apple password go incognito. Twenty-some …
Tile Photos FX, puzzle-cut mode
Tile Photos FX, puzzle-cut mode First I got the idea to use the software to make my own Tangrams set. So I started with …
The App Scale: Beautiful Fractals
The App Scale: Beautiful Fractals I downloaded for free from the Apple App Store a lovely nicely-featured little app for Fractals. Michael Fogleman [ https://www.michaelfogleman.com/ ] …
Torso Incognito
Torso Incognito Hereby hangs a tale. A decade ago I downloaded a file, The Venus of Cnidos. Maybe she was an Aphrodite? I was …
3-D Materials
3-D Materials I enjoy mining files designed for 3D software and then using them in 2D digital images. The “wrong” way.
Photoshop Grids
Photoshop Grids Awhile ago I inadvertently turned on Photoshop’s preference for placing a grid over every new file. Some areas had a tighter mesh than …
Cutting Up Art with the App Tiles FX
Cutting Up Art with the App Tiles FX Last Playground I was playing with equations from Graphing Calculator and seeing how Apple Motion might …
Motion 03: More Complex
Playground 081020 This is the third collection of video tries in Apple’s Motion. I like how I’m progressing. But today I downloaded something small …
Motion 02: Stacked Math Movies
Stacked math movies Last Playground I was playing with equations from Graphing Calculator and seeing how Apple Motion might put them into animations. Today …
Motion 01: Visual Math and Video Dance
Visual Math and Video Dance I’ve recently returned to two old favorites -- the math visualization program Graphing Calculator and the video effects editor Apple …
Interference Effects
Interference Effects moire [moiré] n. an independent usually shimmering pattern seen when two geometrically regular patterns (such as two sets of parallel lines or two …
Years of Trying 3D Effects
Years of Trying 3D Effects I've been trying to connect with 3d capabilities since some time in the '90s. Here's a smattering of examples over …
All in a Day’s Work
I want to share some of my new adventures with the 3d scans that were done of me at SIGGRAPH this month. Because I want to …