Make this in FF? - Digital Circlism - Artwork with hundreds of circles

Artist Makes Celebrity Portraits from Thousands of Circles

I have found this by chance and have thought that this is curious and original and a different way of making designs, and want to share it here.



[QUOTE]Using a sharp round brush in Photoshop CS4, he applies thousands of circles on a black background, until he creates a colorful, realistic portrait.

You might think he uses some kind of automated process to apply every circle, but that’s actually the most remarkable thing about Ben Heine – he adds every one of the circles individually. Each circle has a different color, a different tone and a different size, which makes creating a single one of these artworks very time consuming.

Could there be an automated process to apply every circle in the same way thanks to Filter Forge?

This could be done probably using the different shadings of lights and shadows and colors hues, but what is difficult here is to make the circles in variable size according to this shadows and light so you can get the effect right.

I sometime ago made this thread

Jelly beans art making with a Filter Forge filter would be possible?

And then after Mongoose King made this well done, amazing and awesome filter

Jelly Bean Art by Mongoose King





In this one it could be changed the jelly beans for circles BUT the main thing in the artworks shown above is the VARIABLE SIZE of the circles, so this way would not work.

Then I made this other thread

Would be possible to make a dots variation scale for Picture Dots ?

And Inujima made this wonderful and well done filter (available in this thread)



BUT This are simple dots arrangement and variable size only in one way

The I asked for this

How would you make this variable dots pattern in FF?



This shows much better the variable size of circles and dots and not in a uniform way as shown by Inujima

And nobody until now has been able to make this variable dots pattern possible

[QUOTE]Uberzev wrote:

Would need to be a custom script... [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Skybase wrote:

Ooo we need an iterator for something like this. We tried the bomber in the past if you recall. Basically we fed the previous output the chance param of another bomber. This becomes inefficient after xnum of bombers. But it worked to its degree.

But honestly the bomber method wasn't that great in the end.[/QUOTE]

So now I wonder if this would be possible to make this kind of things and make the suggestion if anyone expert in FF would like to try to make this.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE TO SHOW WHAT IS NEEDED

The way of distributing the variable circles according to the detail amount and lights and shadows looks in some way like fractals.

Yes Skybase, I agree with you, the iterators is something that is really needed.

Here's my guess: probably won't happen soon. But we never know.

I mean when you actually think about what iterators can do it's a very sophisticated feature. The idea of "Loops" is simple, but then you gotta think "well how does a program like this handle looping?" For example we can have something called nested loops where you nest a loop within a loop to create more complex stuff.

Code
start random program set up a couple variables or via defined globals for (variable range between x and y):   if x < y   for (variables a and y):      add a square to the scene   elif some other thing get out of loop when conditions met

So that's a awful example of nesting loops but the idea is you have a loop within a loop. So in FitlerForge you would have a set of operations that do something (i.e. translate) and then how about if we nest another set that does something different, (i.e. rotate) You nest a translate in a rotate command with 50% blend, then you go back up to the first level (the very top most level of your Filter hierarchy) which you then can see a resulting image iterate via translation and rotate to which ever direction you set it at. Then it's a matter of being sensible about what variables you choose to distribute the shapes or images or whatever around.

Interms of actually doing stuff like the examples, that's some insane load of work to do it via nodes. Pretty sure it would be darn slow but become a bit more doable if certain loop functionalities happen. But there's no guarantee that these functions will go any deeper. Any nodey-program has this problem with limited functionality and the fact that it needs to be pre-written by somebody designates the issue of limited customizable stuff. Unless you're a company like Native Instruments and decides to implement CORE (C++ equivalent) programming. It becomes VERY difficult to understand and / or learn at that point for anybody, even professionals.

Personally, the moment FilterForge adds any form of looping functionality, you suddenly get a completely different program. It would be AMAZING and insane to see a program already capable of mass loads of complex stuff to produce even more than other programs can.

Ok I'm done saying things.

You're basically peering into the digital-art speciality genre involving a lot of skill, understanding of code, programming, and art. It becomes very difficult to find commercial programs specifically able to produce you results. Studio Artist just happens to have weird functionalities which is why it's darn amazing. In the end however, the best thing to do is just hard code it yourself from scratch.

... you know SpaceRay, it's been months the original thread began. Personally, I've kinda tried hinting you to try achieving the effect yourself, or at least just wait patiently for it especially if you're going to ask somebody else to do the job for you. See, some people were nice enough to even take their time and try it and post results.

I honestly feel disappointed at these threads. I understand your lack of technical knowledge, I get it since the time you began making these threads. I get it. But given all this time, you could have least made your first steps in achieving a goal. You could have done something or did more research into methodology. But instead you basically did nothing to help yourself and others. It's almost getting to a point where you're bumping to see if somebody's going to do the work for you.

I'm also upset when you wrote this: "Would be very good and lovely idea to make a filter with fractal circle packing or some kind of hyperbolic tiling (or mixing both) that could be used to fill selections in photoshop." Yeah it'd be lovely, but you asked this 5 or 6 times across multiple threads on different occasions. You make it sound as if this forum is your personal filter factory where you can ask all you want and you get what you want eventually. Now I'm sure you don't intend it like that but because you keep asking and asking that it just starts sounding like that.

I'm also sick of reposts, recaps, repetitive threads, and substance-less posts. It happens once in a while but it's happening too often now. I don't mean to rub the blame but most of them have been sadly your threads. And look, when you make posts with massive recaps and quotes they end up becoming part of the search so when I search, I often hit your posts so often that I can't ignore them. I want to see the original post, not your recap or quotes, they're not very helpful to me.

Look, I've said enough. I wanna keep a nice positive attitude and bring the best of anything. I like being nice and I want to continue my efforts but I couldn't just stand it anymore given like 5 or 6 of these bottomless threads appearing once again. I really hope you don't take me the wrong way and I hope nobody sincerely does. I honestly hate making "in your face" posts like this... it really upsets myself doing it. And personally, it sucks.

Parameters can be altered to determine where each circle appears... pretty neat actually.