When you create abstract blends it is a interactive process where you can creatively respond to what you are seeing emerge from even subtle edits. Great fun!


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Here's how the image was generated: Overlaid on a rectangle with a four-color fill are two similar (but different) Xara multi-step blends superimposed over each other. Both use star-shaped vector objects with four-colour fills and repeating circular stained glass transparencies blended on an 's' curve. After their creations, the rear blend itself was given bleach transparency. The forward blend retained its original stained glass transparency. An exported jpg was processed in FotoSketcher v3 (free program) to create a 180-degree halftone. The halftone image was then imported back into the Xara document and overlaid on the original blends/background. The final image uses three superimposed copies of that halftone image, each with a different linear transparency. There are for instance both stained glass and bleached versions of the halftone image effecting specific partial areas of the underlying Xara blends/background.

Why would anyone do this? It is fun.