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Livio
Borghi, art and nature working together |
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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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Ken
Karstens' musing on fractals, generative art and Repligator. |
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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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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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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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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
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. |
About
Owen Ransen