March 2014 Giveaway - Wisps of Smoke and Steam

[Gare]

I couldn't say I was able to keep 100% of the spirit of your original work, handrawn, but this PNG attached does indeed repeat seamlessly.

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My Best,

Gary

[handrawn]

s'ok - it's good

[the thing that is is never the thing described - to paraphrase Gurdjieff]

[SCALEBACK666]

I'm having some of that.
Just found Chaoscope downloaded it.

[Gare]

I have a suggestion for you, Scaleback: the fastest way to get to a point where you want to render and export smokey-type equations, begin with the Polynomial C preset that comes with the download. Then take a whack at modifying the Lorenze-84 preset. The values change dramatically if you adjust something even to a 1/1,000 of a value, so the sliders aren't a heck of a lot of help. Type integers in the value fields and show use the results when you're designed a chaotic masterpiece.

-g

[SCALEBACK666]

I have a suggestion for you, Scaleback: the fastest way to get to a point where you want to render and export smokey-type equations, begin with the Polynomial C preset that comes with the download. Then take a whack at modifying the Lorenze-84 preset. The values change dramatically if you adjust something even to a 1/1,000 of a value, so the sliders aren't a heck of a lot of help. Type integers in the value fields and show use the results when you're designed a chaotic masterpiece.

-g

Bit of a problem, I STILL can't upload. But I've been seeing what can be done.

[handrawn]

plankton...

{lorenz-84]

[Rik]

That's pretty cool stuff, Steve.

[handrawn]

from which we get with some work in xara something vaguely art-deco

lady with parasol [but sadly no bicycle]

chaoscope is a great program Rik - especially if art is aproched from the point of view of discovery rather than imitation....

[Gare]

I'm very pleased that some of the content this month has generated so many views! Especially for a "Giveaway Of The Month" thread.

Because this is the Xara Xone thread and not an off-topic or other software thing, I feel obliged to bind Chaoscope just a little to Xara for a moment here:

• Experiment with the controls for any given equation, be it Polynomial, Lorenze, whatever. You'll see that if you choose to Render the equation as a gas, or a liquid, or a solid, you'll get different options on the View Palette. Also, I use the Gas Render option a lot and this produces a gradient at the bottom, making the transition in the image go from a background to foreground color. If you render a white on black picture and want to use it in Xara, you need to assign the picture Bleach Transparency mode to drop out the black background, and the converse it true when you have a black piece of art against white. There are also some presets you can access by right-clicking over the gradient strip.

It's important that you let the render finish to get the most refined image, but once the statusa line at the bottom of the UI tells you the render is completed, you can adjust the gamma and contrast on the View menu before exporting and you'll see that you get very different results. And save your "seed file" because the Opern Sorce people who made this program saw no sense in flashing you an attention box about saving!



I did a little Contone adjustment to the imported file here, and have attached the file if anyone would like to see the steps I've listed above in action.




My Best,

Gary

[wizard509]

The only smoked fish I ever tried was salmon.

After that, I went back to pipe smoking.


-g

The trouble smoking fish is which end do you light.