Blend

**molucca** · 11 August 2009, 10:32 PM

It only seems like a ball of snakes.

Left is the map fill without texture, and the right with a blank white texture. If I used a black image for the texture, the fill would disappear.

Rich

**molucca** · 12 August 2009, 02:48 PM

An image stroke used for variable with feathering in erase blending.

Rich

**ginger44** · 14 August 2009, 08:59 PM

ball of snakes - did you uncover a undocumented feature ;-)

the effects are actually fascinating

**molucca** · 14 August 2009, 09:12 PM

I discovered an unknown capability. Of course, it wasn't documented either.

Basically, this was the ability to use transparent reflection maps.

Other things are just my ideas pn how to use things.

Rich

**molucca** · 15 August 2009, 03:16 PM

A fringe in erase blending. A fringe is a positive emboss and go to the outside of an object. The opacity of the object is affected by the shade of the bottom row of pixels in the fringe image. In this case, I needed to choose a fringe that had a black row at the bottom to erase the center as well as the fringe.

Rich

**ginger44** · 18 August 2009, 08:31 PM

That worked well, had a good look at the large ver.

**molucca** · 19 August 2009, 04:21 PM

Two fringes. You can only recolor with one color. Making a fringe is like making a linear tile. Both fringes were the same dimensions, and match each other when applied to two separate objects.

The fill in a negative emboss with a third object, and was made using a Xara /EC4K map.

Rich