New Animated Voronoi - Giger

new techniques:

-masks for facet floating
-contruct geometric configurations like rotating point cycles
-color/lens attributes of facets

Sorry for bad video quality, Youtube limits the maximal resolution, in PAL 720x576 they look a bit better.

Animated Dripping Mirrors

Thanks to Freddie for animation support and Giger for artwork!

Liquid Rotation

An interesting effect comes with combining a rotation mask and an algorithm for deforming rectangles to any polygonal form.

Muse

New Design

I have been experimenting with merging Voronoi diagrams and photo crops. It is analogous to the original cubism algorithm, but with irregular polygon shapes.

My inspiration are Picasso and George Braque, but it is a long way until there.

Berlin Berlin

I have finished my PhD applying campaign. I got offers from five different universities in the Netherlands and Germany , and decided to go to Berlin. The research group is great, the city also attracts me. Now i am looking for a cool appartment there, stay tuned for updates.

I have worked on new rotation angle masks for cubism and the results are here.
I also plan on reading on L-systems and grammars for computer graphics and fractals, an interesting new tehnique might come out.

Giger

Back from Switzerland, more inspiration for cyberpunk Giger remakes after Rave Street Love Parade Zurich

More Rain and the Beginning of Fun

It has been raining the last 2 days, which kept me at home. I checked this online label Thinner with lots of free minimal music, suggested to me by Cefo , also known as 032 on the lastfm community. He has great taste for music and has really opened me for great stuff like Andrew Pekler and Alva Noto and Jan Jelinek. By the way, the last fm service functions really and has managed to suggest me already some of these artists based on my previous choices, but it is still better to get introduced to new music by a good friend.

I also played with this funny flickr interface, it is a nice game.

I am relaxing now, but I think the next few days will be exciting. This weekend I will be at Bodensee and then in Zurich, next weekends I will jump with a parachute, it will be great. Also the Weiterstadt filmfestival will begin and I plan on going there, it was great last year.

The sleep I got the last few days will be quite useful :-)

Some rainy days

The raining season in Darmstadt is in full swing, so it is the ideal time to sit at home and work on the computer. I have been busy working implementing some geographical map features for fwcrawler, which proved to be relatively easier than i thought. The idea is to put users and artists to their countries of origin in the world map. I will be able to put it online in several days. I have used some pretty advanced stuff from wordnet to be able to create a small geographical database with countries, cities and counties. Some bugs remain, for example the database considers James to be a river in the USA, and not a personal name, and Twin a city in the USA, and not a family relation, but this will be fixed and running in no time.

Besides, I have sorted out some of my old stuff and made some new images. Enjoy.

Multi Cube Layers

I have been trying to combine cubes of different granularity. It seems easy for now to create several cubist images with different cube size with Java and than combine them as layers with different blending in Photoshop. This has the advantage that one can adjust the myriad of Photoshop filters available and see the final result.

More Cubism and Photomosaics

The latest images, experiments with techniques, shapes,texture

Cube Me

Photo mosaics can be funny. A large "me" made of thousands of small "mini me's" :-)

Dirk's birthday

TOnight was Dirk's birthday, a good friend of mine who studies design. We had a nice party with old friends from Darmstadt.
I got inspired to do a cubist portrait of Dirk, but I did not have a photo of him with quality good enough to print, so I could not bring him the present in time.( i was also totally tired today, first several hours of final diplomthesis revisions and then 3 hours of aerobics and volleyball)

But maybe some other time. At least I got ideas for a cool new modification of cubism with classical photomocaics software
The result is here, Dirk liked the idead to make a photo collage of him in cubist style. I will give myself some time to make something really good, the first result is here

Cubism Improvements

I improved my algorithm in 2 small ways:
-automatic blurring of region borders
-more flexible window cropping

Cubism Caricatures

I have played some more with my Java cubism algorithm.
It can be summed in several steps:
-create a hexagonal grid
-split the hexagons in 3 parallelograms to simulate 3d cubes
-assugn to each hexagon a cut from the original photo image
-calculate the cut size according to the image content of the photo, e.g. eyes are an important visual element and should be repeated more
-from each quadratic cut get three deformed subshapes to create 3d cube illusion

In this way, a single input picture gives illusion of multiple angles, eyes become facetous, etc. , all one needs is my java program, an input photo, and a mask with important regions. One may manually choose eyes, or use a computer vision algorithm to do this automatically, or use any other image to superimpose, e,g, the photo of a famous person works nicely with a caricature of the same person :-)

I wondered wheteher it may be interesting to create a photo gallery of caricatures of politicians with my algoritm

Giger Li Revisited

Neo - Cubism