Nice... I like! Judy http://revined.blogspot.com
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Wilhelm Sanke <[email protected]>wrote: > I have uploaded a Kaleidoscope Gallery - about 30 images on 5 cards - to > > <http://www.sanke.org/Software/KaleidoscopeGallery.zip>. > > While putting the examples together using a number of differing techniques, > the working stack suddenly became totally corrupt the day before yesterday, > this having been preceded by rather frequent crashes described in bug report > 7812. > > After having been notified that bug # 7812 has now been fixed with Rev > version 3.5-RC1, I had used my stack with that new version (and > alternatively with 3.0-gm3), and soon after having opened the stack with > both versions the "corruption" occured. There is not even a "backup" stack > anywhere on my harddisk, one of those preceded by a "tilde" (~), to which I > was referred to by the Rev error dialog. > > I opened the remnants of the corrupt stack with a text editor and saw that > about 20 scripts had completely disappeared, meaning that about a week's > work was lost. I am in the course of reconstructing the scripts, there are > no special problems involved, but it takes some time. > > Before the corruption, apart from the crashes a number of weird things had > happened, among them > > - A simple "flip horizontal" script refused to stop (no repeat loops were > involved here) and went on forever. > > - A number of buttons in a supporting stack - one from which I wanted to > import some relevant scripts - were being deleted, presumably because they > were incompatible with the # 7812 problem.- > > I will describe the procedures used to create the kaleidoscopic images in > greater detail later. They will be part of my announced "Gradientology" > stack. For the time being I mention a few general principles here: > > - The main principle to create kaleidoscopic images is to apply mirrors, > especially "diagonal" mirrors, but in conjunction with non-diagonal mirrors. > There are a number of such mirrors in my "Imagedata Toolkit" stack (< > http://www.sanke.org/Software/ImageDataToolkitPreview3.zip>) > > - Another element involves using snapshots of rotated images and to > super-impose their imagedata. > > - Then modifying the imagedata by changing the colors can be an essential > element (e.g. "duplicating colors" in my "Imagedata Toolkit" stack and > elsewhere). > > - Skewing, stretching, and resizing are other useful techniques. > > A short description of the main steps in one approach: > > 1. I create an image that contains a number of squares with bi-directional > gradients (again: see the "Imagedata Toolkit") > > 2. The image is "skewed" by a chosen factor > > 3. A "triangle" is chosen from anywhere in the image. > > 4. This triangle is positioned four times at the top, right, bottom, and > left side of the image > > 5. This image created so far is rotated by an angle of 45 and superimposed > with the original image, thus producing an octagonally mirrored > kaleidoscope. > > 6. If you repeat this latter process with an angle of 22.5 you get a > sixteenfold kaleidoscope.-- > > Enjoy the examples of the gallery. > > IMHO I think that Revolution has a much greater potential to create > kaleidoscopic images than an number of programs and results I found with > Google searches on the net. > > Best regards, > > Wilhelm Sanke > <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia> > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
