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You might discover that puns are like limericks: once you come up with one, the rest tumble out and it's hard to put the lid back on the bottle.
"Brownian motion"... a dancing leprechaun, a junior girl scout, a dessert falling to the floor,....
"Raining cats and dogs"... that dog on the throne at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean was a reigning dog, herding cats with saddles and bridles would be reining cats, arresting dogs for being off-leash and taking them to court would be arraigning dogs,....
Even simple words often have multiple meanings: a hand of cards, hand of applause, hand-over and over-hand, a 15-hand horse, a handsome offer,....
One of the fractal patterns is called "flame", so there is old flame, flaming drunk, flamed out, flames of love, and a whole bunch more puns with burn, fire, coal, ember,....
Photography is also full of punning potential. Camera means chamber or room. Film over one's eyes? Solutions? Washing and rinsing and bleaching and burning and dodging,....
About this time, you are wondering how I managed to reach my late 50s without being strangled?
;^)
Thread: January Challenge : SYMMETRY | Forum: Challenge Arena
Attached Link: February Challenge LINK
Thank you everybody!I've started a new thread quickly so that we can pounce on it like cats with yarn. :)
I hope that visualizing puns will lighten the winter month and get some involvement from other forums.
Carolly
Thread: January Challenge : SYMMETRY | Forum: Challenge Arena
OK, I got it down to 5, but each has something special going for it. It might be a small field, but a good one!
Babuci - Free Spirit 3pt.
Not just for the rich color, but the concept of auras and being more than a physical earth-bound shell. It is spring, and time to emerge.
Gunsan - Twins 2pt.
There are 17 placements in symmetry, using rotation, translation, mirroring, etc.. I liked the inversion of playing cards, because many of my role-playing characters have secret identities that mirror personas and skills. This is very confidant work.
Alhak - Gorge 1 pt.
Getting perfect reflections is hard. It usually involves rising with the sun before the wind or hungry fish get the surface ruffling. That is a place I'd want to linger.
Special mention to Kort for his railroad Tracks... I like the textural depth. And kudos to Gunsan for Red... that is amazingly rich and I feel like I could fall into it.
Thread: January Challenge : SYMMETRY | Forum: Challenge Arena
Attached Link: wheeling horses
I wanted to animate this (technically it would be kinematics rather than animation), but couldn't find the animation gallery that would allow such things... needed to check size limits. I *thought* we had an animation gallery. Anyway, it is an older image, made with Poser 4 and a single spotlight. It would have been amusing to see what the modern lights would have been able to do with it.You'll just have to imagine them wheeling around like a carousel with the dual movement. Symmetrically, of course.
The full image is in my gallery.
Thread: January Challenge : SYMMETRY | Forum: Challenge Arena
Attached Link: Snowflake - Cirrus
When I think of SYMMETRY, my first thoughts are of snowflakes, growing outward crystal by crystalline limb.OK, I probably have a reputation for drifts of them following me around. A few years back I gave a bunch to people who had commented in a thread in this Forum. And the last 2 years I've given out packages of them for the FaerieWylde 13 Days of Solstice. If you want those packages, just email me.
I need to get back to doing cut-paper flakes again. Those aren't perfectly regular, but they're charming.
Meanwhile, here is a flake in a spiffy new texture.
The full-sized version is in the Gallery. Hmm... need a thumbnail. It has been too long since I've added images to the Gallery. sigh
Thread: December challenge - TRAVEL | Forum: Challenge Arena
I should have nipped in a couple of days ago, and reeeeeeally wish that I'd seen the diptyche/triptyche challenge. sigh. The holidays are extremely busy, and everything takes so much longer with a migraine. Oh, well. I can at least vote.
gunsan - tropical island (in the other thread) - 3 pts.
TwoPynts - airport reflections - 2 pts.
gunsan - crossings - 1 pt.
Thread: July/August Challenge Theme - CHAOS | Forum: Challenge Arena
Great! I got it down to 7 that I thought represented "chaos" as opposed to "order" (total disoganization, no apparent pattern, no attempt to prettify or modulate or control the outcome): entries by nexxus, dragonsgate, robyn's "recycle" fractal, jstro's email poetry, gunsan's "little peek", and babuci's pile of feathers... and couldn't decide from there. sigh. My mind tends towards pattern and symmetry, so it is as awkward judging randomness as it is creating it.
We did have a slew of wonderful entries, and it was fun to get back into challenge mode. The Chaotic Clock was gorgeous and whimsical, so I can hardly wait to see what next challenge brings us. :)
Carolly
Thread: how to achieve chaos :) | Forum: Challenge Arena
You are all certainly welcome!
This was a good exercise in memory for me (working to combat brain-shrinkage).
BTW, for the curious, I used "plastic wrap" on an art nouveau seahorse stencil. It went from dry and crisp to luminously wet and shimmering.
Combine that filter with another that adds noisiness, such as film grain, and you can get snow drfts or powdered sugar for a plum cake. :) It is horribly hard to spray paint randomly (either mouse or pen will reflect the mechanics of the hand), but filters go by pure math.
Spherize and other distortions work well for science fiction illos, where you need to show an effect such as gravity waves or hyperspace or magnetism or magic by how the field affects the background. Heat shimmers distort the area behind the road, so we don't need to touch the asphalt to know that it is hot... the brain translates for us. When we see other distorted areas, we can feel the effect.
I did a game screen showing two black holes colliding (the director said something about mating zygotes, so it got changed), but had to show massive distortions of the extremely chaotic starfield. Black holes don't just sit there, they rotate. I get motion-sick on carnival rides, so it was easy to imagine complex movement, but how to show it? Play with the distortion filters! :) Whether the Enterprise is falling into a time warp or the demon is being sent back to the Elemental Plane of Fire, if the universe is being ruptured, a bit of distortion will convey that information without taking the focus from your main character.
Thread: July/August Challenge Theme - CHAOS | Forum: Challenge Arena
Thread: July/August Challenge Theme - CHAOS | Forum: Challenge Arena
Attached Link: playing with chaos
Last night I put up a mini-tut demonstrating how to turn an innocuous photograph of a quiet brown rock into wild and chaotic disruption of pixelated space. True photographers might be outraged, but some photographs are more useful as stepping stones (pun intended).I wouldn't feel quite right entering that gallery image into this contest, even though it truly fits the theme (and I'm certain that the missing ebots of the first comments followed the mysql butterfly into the ether). However, the thread might help inspire someone who hasn't yet created something. THIS is a great excuse to play with the bolder filters.
It was hard to concentrate (I'm a migrained-out dyslexic who can't touch-type), and the headache is hitting back today, so if there are any typos left, please ignore them. I hope the sense of adventure and experimentation came through and perhaps a few more people will post entries.
Carolly
Thread: how to achieve chaos :) | Forum: Challenge Arena
So I made a duplicate image, with layers, and changed the blur to a zooming radial blur, zooming various amounts on each layer and blending the result. This was much better. It helped pull the focus towards the butterfly. However, even though frozen in a moving field, there was minimal zoom at the center, and certainly not enough to call attention to the golden butterfly lost in that golden haze.
Time for another layer! This one was slipped betwwen the butterfly and the background. I made a gradient from black to transparent, and centered a radial gradient fill behind the butterfly. It worked like an inverse spotlight to direct the eyes. :) Next steps were to change blending mode and lessen the opacity so that it was quietly there, adding depth, increasing tonal richness, focusing the viewer's eyes, but not calling attention to itself.
Finished image in the gallery has a narrow and discreet frame, making the scene appear more vast.
And at some point between tweaks and before upload, there is the realization that this isn't a photograph anymore.
Thread: how to achieve chaos :) | Forum: Challenge Arena
We can use this to pull the butterfly into prominence.
First, I cut out the butterfly and put it on a separate layer so it would be isolated from the experimental reatments.
I duplicated the rest of the field and tried using a circular motion blur (roughly centered on the butterfly) to give the effect of flapping wings. There were 2-3 layers with different amounts of blur, all blended together. This softened the lines, and staggered them.
Thread: how to achieve chaos :) | Forum: Challenge Arena
It is starting to display potential. The colors are rich against a dark ground. It is alien, but warm. Viewer reaction should be curiosity and not adversion. Color carries so much emotional quality, that in an abstract work they become even more critical to communication.
However, it was time to stop playing with sliders and move pixels around. Cloning and cut and paste made that brick irregular enough to lessen its eye-snagging habit. Fixing the butterfly wing took subtlety, because I didn't want it to look neatly hand-drawn and it had to match the other linework. I borrowed lines from all over and blended them. There were other areas that got nudged into shadow or lines that gained in importance. Some stray bits got cleaned up, but only if they were too distracting. Remember randomness! Chaos is not tidy.
The composition is more interesting now. It still lacks a clear focus, but the silhouette is stronger.
Thread: how to achieve chaos :) | Forum: Challenge Arena
Filters and layer styles and blending modes are a lot of fun to play with. When I stumble over something neat, I try to remember the effect. Like a wizard with a grimoire or a chef with a recipe file, it helps to make a few notes of surprising successes or disasters to be avoided.
It also helps to create duplicate layers. Not only does this preserve your image, but you can use blending modes rather than simply "fade" the effect. Selective blending gives more control over various factors. Layers can vary in opacity as well.
Many of the filters are workhorses. For example, I use "render > clouds" as a base for glass or parchment or anything but clouds. But... when to use "artistic > plastic wrap" or "distort > spherize" or "stylize > glowing edges"? Sometimes nothing else will yield the desired effect... and if you want non-linear lines, they might as well glow in the dark, too!
I boosted the contrast a bit more, and tried glowing edges at various strengths, degrees of smoothness, and line width.
I'm recreating something I did many moons ago, but this is close enough for the tutorial. Besides illuminating any edges based upon threshold numbers, this filter also changes the colors. It can get quite wild, but this has some pretty blues and golds. The pink will need to go, however.
The composition needs tweaking. The butterfly is missing part of a wing, and that horizontal brick is far too regular and distracting.
Thread: how to achieve chaos :) | Forum: Challenge Arena
Also we can get a fresh perspective when flipping an image. If I'm too involved, I'll check it in a mirror or something to see how it balances. Like walking around a chessboard: it helps yield a sense of dynamics, strengths, weaknesses.
Adjusting curves is normally better than adjusting contrast, but in this case, I wanted bold contrasts to clear out noise.
OK, the butterfly is there, but the eyes go to the brightest spot. Since chaos is non-linear, I have to be especially aware of the line tracked by the eyes. I want viewer's eyes to loop out and come back to the butterfly, repeatedly. Fixing the focal point will come later, but it will require a few steps.
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Thread: January Challenge : SYMMETRY | Forum: Challenge Arena