beautiful 21st century plaids reflecting the Scottish origin of Rev. Erik Hansen
--- Wilhelm Sanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added a gallery of images to my website > <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia> (scroll down > on the left and select > "Pattern Art"). > > The images are examples created with my > "Pattern Toolkit" built with > Metacard/Revolution (for some reason it is > impossible to build a > standalone of this stack in the Revolution IDE, > but it is possible in > the leaner alternative Metacard IDE). > > I intend to offer the toolkit as a free > download in the middle of > November. The GUI of this up to now very > personal tool needs first to be > cleaned up and organised, as there are more > than 100 different functions > and algorithms to create basic color patterns > and to transform them into > various secondary and tertiary patterns by > means of different kinds of > overlays, shifting, rotating, creating > multi-directional color > transitions (gradients), using vertical and > horizontal flips and > (partial) mirrors etc.. > > The toolkit is a further development of an > older tool that used small > fields as color units (compare my stack > <www.sanke.org/Software/RevTestStacks.zip> > which is also attached to > Bugzilla 2217; see also my comments on page > "Tools and Samples for > Development" on my website concerning the so > far unresolved difficulties > for the Rev IDE). > > The new toolkit now uses backcolors of chars in > a 120x160 matrix > (instead of the former 5400 fields) to achieve > a satisfactory resolution > that enables the user to enlarge the finally > saved image. You can try > out this for yourself after downloading the > real-size JPEG images. > > > To navigate to the individual images click on > the thumbs.- > > As usual, there remains the question of the > intentions and the > usefulness of such a tool. I think a number of > answers are possible. > > In my experience it is a very creative tool, > maybe mainly useless, but > somehow fascinating as I find myself spending > long hours experimenting > with ever changing patterns. > > Regards, > > Wilhelm Sanke > <www.sanke.org/MetaMedia> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
