More tips for liquid and organic 2D/3D shapes

[Wolfgang]

Ivan,

I downloadad your dino and noticed something strange. Maybe you know why this happens:

I select the dino
Feathering is set to "10,8pt"
I set feathering to "0pt" and back to "10,8pt" again.

Now the dino does not look like before, but blurred. Why is that ??

Wolfgang

[roman]

I didn't understand how you did it Ivan but now I got it. Profiles!!! Wolfgang slide the first slider to the left... ;-)))

Great technique Ivan!!!!

[Wolfgang]

Thanks Roman,

that did the trick!
I never would have thought of profiles in this case.
One of the new functions in X that never really got through to me ..

Wolfgang

[ivan louette]

I have shown that in my first post about blobby shapes. I use the below slider and turn it to -0,98 or sometimes -0,96 to keep some amount of antialiasing. Afterwards one may use the above slider and it modifies the width of the line. But I don't know how that prints because my printer is out this time.

Thanks for the additional infos for everybody.

Kind regards, and I am glad that will be useful!

ivan

[ivan louette]

One can easily obtain a very neat outside shape with soft transitions between textures inside.

1° group the non feathered shapes
2° add an hard feathering to the group (turning the below feather profile slider close to -1)
3° select each inner shape separately , texturize it and add some soft feathering to it.

Superposing several level of individual or group feathering don't cause any problem!

ivan

[ivan louette]

It's possible to create some kind of "articulation" which change interactively where the different shapes are joining toghether.
But in this case some minor bug may occur (one white background corresponding to the outline of the group, but it disappears while exporting to bitmap.)
Interesting to create plugged cables or articulated insects!

ivan

[roman]

That texture connecting technique could be especially seful when making panoramatic photos.

Roman

[Truroneil]

What a lot of great information! Thanks. Neil

[Ross Macintosh]

Thanks Ivan for all the great explorations.

I think the resulting dino design and your running women are *very* strong graphic designs. The running women look like they should be developed into a logo for a marathon or even the Olympics! It is brilliant. (It reminds me of Alexander Calder's mobiles and prints - I'm sure he would have loved the image too).

Regards, Ross

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[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on August 13, 2001 at 18:53.]

[ivan louette]

Ross, I didn't think to Calder and of course I didn't imaginate the structure of this technique would be so close to some of his ideas. Thanks for the link and the appreciation. For other things (colors but also structures and imagination) one of my great loves is Joan Mirò.

Kindly,

ivan