LAB#3015 Skybase

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Sorry if I made you feel bad for what I have said,

oh no no, I started it myself. It's not your fault, I was just interjecting to change the course of the forum post. The thing is, in the end it's just what it is.

To me those people are just really small and kinda not worth going after. You said how you emailed and got an angry response back. I've done similarly but with my copyrighted work. You usually get people being defensive, something along the lines of angry and afraid. That "how dare you!" type of reaction is common. But beyond the line it's really just about the law. Who made what basically. And the law never leaves gray areas out. It's basically yours if you made it. So whoever uses your publicized filter, renders it out, has the right to claim ownership over the image output. It's lawful and just, but ethically something that rustles my feathers.

I honestly find the emailing over copyrighted work irritating. It's important, but it's none of my business and my style. I hate reading people getting angry over my stuff even if it's my right to take them down. I hate the frustration it brings and it never ends happy because I'm just as upset as the other person is. No matter how black and white the law is it's almost as annoying to get an email that starts making silly claims. It takes away my time to make anything. It's why I chose to move on in most cases because it's just not worth my time.

It's how small and pathetic those people are. Those poor souls that have nothing much to hang onto than their delusional artistry and a false sense of creativity. All I hope is that those people grow out of that status and become a bit bigger. Sometimes people do, become great artists after stealing. It's again up to they themselves. Most people rather live the delusion.

I think we live in a time where we're confused about ownership and content aggregation. I feel we've become a bit afraid of the internet to some degree but I also think we've also been naive about it too.

Another shot.

RGB LAND has been restarted! Everyday, the tumblr auto posts 4 randomly generated images using FilterForge. Each image is chaotic, however, to some degree is designed to look the way it does. The images themselves are pointless as well as this whole project is really just intended to be endless and kinda mundane.

http://rgb-land.tumblr.com/

It's also a book now! Why? I don't know either. I just wanted to have a physical copy of this project. The book is $33.91, it's 456 pages long and it's 5x8inches printed on economy class paper. You can act like you're reading a giant novel, when you're flipping through colorful pages of vivid squiggles.

http://www.blurb.com/b/6935446-rgb-land

Just made a quick new filter that picks colors from an image and puts them into a pattern.

Post processing with GoogleNIK.

The color inputs are coming from my past artwork.

These were really fun to make!

I'm also looking for a more internal way of doing this. For example: I'm currently looking for a way to generate nice color schemes within FilterForge via some algorithm or maybe some sampled initial colors. Will keep you guys posted on that.

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Skybase wrote: Just made a quick new filter that picks colors from an image and puts them into a pattern

WOW!! this are very cool, beautiful and well done abstract images, and I personally love much all the tangled, complex and intrincated abstract textures, and it reminds me of your filter Circle Stained Glass Lite that I really love much

thanks for sharing this colorful and artistic examples

And this!

Good stuff!

The ladybug image looks a bit mediocre.

mmmm..breakfast is now complete...

Good and well done toasts, great model with toasted edges, it looks very realistic

There's a slight distortion on the edges since bread seems to get harder towards the edges.

Some results based on the huge color sample above.

RGB Land by the way has a new domain: http://rgbland.space/
Hopefully I can roll out RGB Land version 2.0 later in the year.

For those of you new to RGB Land. Basically it's a self-generating FilterForge filter that when you press the next variant button it generates a unpredictable random image that often is a bit messy. RGB Land has been going on for the last 2 or 3 years now I'm now able to run it full time with some tech. Currently RGB Land will post 5 random images a day. It's really an experiment so it's not really that practical of a filter. But the idea does work.

The 2.0 version intends to be a bit more pattern-generating instead of just random noise patterns with no direction. It'll basically be impossible to perfectly predict the out going pattern due to its random nature, but it'll be predictable unlike version 1.0.

Here's the same thing with a randomly chosen color scheme.

Just checked out the website. Very nice. It appeals to me on 2 levels:

Chaos
Impermanence

Thanks!

So the basic idea here is that the output is constantly random. There's no way of exactly knowing what's coming next and the intention of this is that when I run it through batch-renderer it'll always generate a new pattern with pre-defined parameters out of the blue.



That's a small gif demoing how it looks when I hit the next variant button.

Pattern Engine also generates a color scheme out of a lookup table of relatively large, contemporary designer-friendly colors. It's still a hit or a miss sometimes provided it does choose some really ugly colors once in a while, but the possibilities of it being able to generate a really nice scheme, that's conscious of modern design trends is a lot higher and consistent. In other words it's actually pretty good at randomly generating nice, new color schemes.



So the overall aspect of this project has been rolling pretty well. Since the time I said something like 30 I made even more patterns. They're mostly simple patterns anyway so they don't take forever to construct.

I'll be presenting this as basically the new future for RGBLand and hopefully it'll be interesting.

Glad it inspires you.

The basic idea of this filter is that it's really like a bunch of little filters in one. I was inspired by the fact that there are so many neat patterns available online for sale via websites such as ShutterStock, CreativeMarket, graphic river etc. They're great, but I just wanted to have a generator that basically does it all without any thought.

Each of those little filters have a specific output, but the controls are all rigged to produce a large variety of possible patterns. So in effect, there are almost no sliders, checkboxes, or anything to use for any form of control aside from the ones that I can't use image maps. (FF 6.0 promised a portion of that to change so my hope is that we'll have image-maps for every controller inputs, effectively eliminating even more controllers in favor of randomized image inputs.)

By the way, these are all straight out of FilterForge, so no other tools were used in producing all of these. As a designer myself, I'm just thrilled to see this thing working so well.

You could see schemes based on 2 colors, 3 colors and 5 colors. Some schemes are bars of colors, others are gradients. This helps the Pattern Engine to produce even more variants based off of a couple pre-defined colors.

It's kind of mesmerizing to see a deluge of similar patterns all at the same time, or in rapid animation. Each one by itself is just a little interesting, but somehow there's strength in numbers.

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It's kind of mesmerizing to see a deluge of similar patterns all at the same time, or in rapid animation. Each one by itself is just a little interesting, but somehow there's strength in numbers.

Once I get this filter running properly it'll be a picture-post a day sort of thing. So the output won't be rapid fire.

But it's really awesome seeing how 1 slider can make them all.