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How to use cloud art to make book covers
How to merge images with a WEB page background
How to blur the edges of an image
Strange emotions when filtering from left to right!
Under the hood, how anti-aliasing is done
Why I prefer my old Sony digicam to my new HP
From Gliftic V5 to Gliftex V6 What is in a name?
Tickle Graphics Icon
A conversation about Gliftic . What a certain "AL" would like to see next.
Ken Karsten
Ken Karstens' musing on fractals, generative art and Repligator.
The Gliftic Story
Gliftic History and Future How Gliftic came about, Generative Art, and what is in store for the future?.
How to conserve your digital images. Tips on keeping your important images images intact.
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!
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.)
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.
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.

MegaPixels and Inches explained! This short simple article will help you understand Digicam MegaPixels, as well as why more is not always better!

How to choose the image file format for your needs. PNG? JPG? GIF? What is all this stuff?

DPI and PPI explained. A quick explanation of what Pixels Per Inch and Dots Per Inch really means.
Hiding those pixels! How to increase apparent resolution of your images using a low down trick!
A review of Visual Explanations by E. R. Tufte As Mr. Tufte would probably say "Kill the frills and get to the point!".

Celtic Art books (and complaints about indiscipline in the modern application of knotwork panels!)

George Haite - Victorian Textile Designer. George Haite was one of the most important pattern designers of the "old school" during Queen Victoria's ascension.

Arcimboldo. Arcimboldo was ignored for 400 years until the some of the Surrealists recognised his genius and adopted him as the "father of Surrealism".
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..
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...
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...
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!
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"

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....

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...
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...
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...?
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
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"...
The Generative Art 2000 conference is an amazing mix of graphical, textual, musical, traditional, futuristic presentations about art which has been created "generatively"...
A Sleepy British Clock in Venice Italy.
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