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How
to use cloud art to make book covers |
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How
to merge images with a WEB page background |
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How
to blur the edges of an image |
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Strange
emotions when filtering from left to right! |
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Under
the hood, how anti-aliasing is done |
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Why
I prefer my old Sony digicam to my new HP |
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From
Gliftic V5 to Gliftex V6 What is in a name? |
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A
conversation about Gliftic . What a certain "AL"
would like to see next. |
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Ken
Karstens' musing on fractals, generative art and Repligator. |
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Gliftic
History and Future How Gliftic came about, Generative Art, and
what is in store for the future?. |
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How
to conserve your digital images. Tips on keeping your important
images images intact. |
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16,000,000
colors is not enough! You think you have true color whith you
latest graphics card and LCD monitor, but you haven't! |
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How
to blur only the edges of an image This article shows you how
to quickly mix your original image with a blurred version only near
the edges. (A "blurred vignette" effect.) |
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Claude
Monet and the Windows XP shutdown dialog This
article shows how the Windows XP interface designers got it horribly
wrong. They confused art with engineering. |
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How
to make photos from disaster zones in your back yard This
article shows you how to add dark threatening clouds and flood water
to a photograph. Another
example of combined effects. |
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MegaPixels
and Inches explained! This short simple article will help you
understand Digicam MegaPixels, as well as why more is not always
better!
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How
to choose the image file format for your needs. PNG? JPG? GIF?
What is all this stuff?
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DPI
and PPI explained. A
quick explanation of what Pixels Per Inch and Dots Per Inch really
means. |
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Hiding
those pixels! How to increase apparent resolution of your images
using a low down trick! |
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A
review of Visual Explanations by E. R. Tufte As Mr. Tufte would
probably say "Kill the frills and get to the point!". |
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Celtic
Art books (and complaints about indiscipline in the modern application
of knotwork panels!)
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George
Haite - Victorian Textile Designer.
George Haite was one of the most important pattern designers of the
"old school" during Queen Victoria's ascension.
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Arcimboldo.
Arcimboldo was ignored for 400 years until the some of the Surrealists
recognised his genius and adopted him as the "father of Surrealism".
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Digital
Character Design and Painting
by Don Seegmiller. This book teaches the fundamentals of character
design, and the skills, tools and techniques needed to master digital
painting.. |
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How
to grow fresh air (improve your office environment!) This book
should be required reading for anyone who works for long periods in
a room with computers... |
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Review
of "Vision And Art" by Margaret Livingstone. This book
is about the physics and biology of seeing, and how artists have (sometimes
unknowingly) exploited quirks in our visual system...
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Stereo
Image Making with your Digicam.
Have you seen those plastic 3D viewers? When you look into the viewer
you see images in 3D. This article explains how you can get the same
effect with your own photos! |
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GUI
Design - some high level ideas this
article gives a very quick summary of just some of the more interesting
ideas of Alan Cooper (the "father of Visual Basic" |
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Genetic
Art and Natural Color Schemes. With the cheap computers, and
cheap digital cameras it is possible to store and retrieve color
schemes which you find around you....
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More
on Natural Color Schemes. Sometimes it is hard to come up with
a color scheme for our WEB pages or art and craft works, but nature
gives us a head start if we want to observe it... |
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How
to make "natural" quality buttons and icons. Maybe you
have seen those icons and buttons which seem to pack in a huge amount
of visual data in a single 32 by 32 pixel square... |
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Ramon
Llull, A Generative Priest Llull wrote on love, war, alchemy,
religion. He invented a mechanical way of combining words, thus ideas...and
maybe graphical ideas...? |
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A
possible future for computer aided idea generation. Adrian
Ward says "Programming is no less an artform than painting is a technical
process". I agree |
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The
Golden Section and the Golden Spiral have long been used in architecture
and painting as "ideal proportions". The center of the Golden
Spiral is sometimes called the "eye of God"... |
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The
Generative Art 2000 conference
is an amazing mix of graphical, textual, musical, traditional, futuristic
presentations about art which has been created "generatively"... |
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A
Sleepy British Clock in Venice Italy. |
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How
to view point lists without AutoCAD |
