Enter the Void - Experiments in Contouring

[amoore]

You're right about using your yin yang image for a dinner service. It would be stunning.

It might also make a knockout wall hanging with the purple sections done in velvet and the lavender section in satin. Or matte fabrics for everything except the blue swirls which could pick up the light brilliantly if stitched in a thread with a high sheen.

Allison

[ivan louette]

Hi Ross,

here are the steps

1° create a circle (on base of a quick shape polygon converted to shapes, with 6 sides or more, otherwise your shape will divide into four quarters if beveled up to the center)

2° add a round internal bevel (at the first step, don't bevel it up to the center)

3° select the central part and apply maximum feathering to it

4° select the bevel part (Ctrl+Click) and do the same

5° bevel up to the center

6° go to the bitmap gallery and select your image with alpha channel (here my "void" excentred blend)

7° while selecting your beveled circle and the thumbnail of your image, click on "fill" in the bitmap gallery

8° adjust the size of your filling to your beveled object (with left arrow key if it is too big)

9° put your object on a dark background

10° for the atmospheric halo, superpose a light blue circle slightly more wide, add it a bleach transparency (about 70 or 80% here), and adjust its feathering

Et voilÃ* !!!

Regards,

ivan

n.b. to create void effects, blends are perhaps less dangerous ??

[This message was edited by ivan louette on January 16, 2001 at 01:15 PM.]

[Ross Macintosh]

Thanks for the tutorial Ivan. I will try it.
Your image is even more beautiful and interesting in the larger size.

Allison - How about the ying/yang as a hubcap design suited to marketing cars to the zen-crowd?

Regards, Ross

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[Erik Heyninck]

I thought I was playing with promising young Sara?!
Mark aka theKeeper calls this the most stable version...said he couldn't make it crash. Well, I can do it this technique, and without the mentioned xar file and without shadows or transparancies.

[amoore]

Now you're on to something!

Your wife could be the only woman in Nova Scotia to have a coat that matches both her plates and her hubcaps. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]