A personal collection of ideas, programming and shiny stuff
These are some notes on things I learned while researching the topic of watercolor simulation for a project I worked on. Due to the nature of the project I can’t provide specifics or any source code this time, but I think the basics of the problem make for an interesting topic to write about. Image Read More …
The very talented guys at Lanczos.tv used a tweaked version of my grower plugin as the basis for some really impressive effects in their production syfy – helix. The underlying mesh structure was used as a starting point to emit particles and give it that very organic appearance. Fantastic work form this studio, check out Read More …
At the end of writing my post on Stippling and Blue Noise, I left it wondering how would this apply if we wanted to use colors. Just to recapitulate, the idea of stippling is to generate a reproduction of an image by halftoning, making use of fixed-size points distributed on a plane. The points need Read More …
Happy New Year! Just a quick post to write about the ongoing migration to GitHub and source code revamping I’m currently carrying out. Since the beginning of this sketchbook it’s been my intention to provide with the source code of the projects with the hope that anyone finds it valuable as a complement for the Read More …
It’s been a while since the last post, and the truth is I’ve spent most of my spare time lately devoted to my photography. Back however to more technical matters, one of the topics I find fascinating is NPR techniques, and particularly Stippling as an interesting example of them. I’ve been reading about it for Read More …