that it's Illustrator's trace function and we just like these pics anyway? :o
(crand_.-~stupid ascii thing~-._,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 16:57,
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Well
I've played with livetrace and it's lots of fun, but this isn't it. My pics are done by hand in photoshop, this one included. They're not produced automagically in any way. My observations of the results from livetrace are that they're only superficially similar to the results of the techniques I've used here. Livetrace results are not at all structurally based, they're about following colour-value contours, which are not always the best guide to form, and they're not the way humans get their primary shape and form information. While you can deform livetrace results to change things up, the output will always be based upon a type of differentiation which is only a secondary guide to form in human vision. That's why livetrace pics are so often obviously machine-made. For really humanistic results I think you have to be guided by eye and vector by hand.
Edit: hold on, I'll put a page together that puts this into some kind of context.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 17:16,
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I must salvage the toblerone afore the pikeys get their hands on it.
(Chickenhawkis no longer Arkwright.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:58,
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Hehehe!
Love the last line
(Puromycinis still licking windows,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:59,
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pff
Although it is quite possible he was carrying a cargo of Swiss cuckoo clocks, most are made in Germany. The cuckoo clock is often wrongly associated with Switzerland, as in the movie The Third Man. In the USA, this error is probably due to a story by Mark Twain in which the hero depicts the Swiss town of Lucerne as the home of cuckoo clocks.
(BloopFri 16 Jul, 22:10,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 14:08,
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I love that line from The Third Man
""Switzerland have hundreds of years of peace and what was their gift to the world? The Cuckoo Clock."
(Chickenhawkis no longer Arkwright.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 14:12,
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heheheh
is that what sink plungers looked like in oldeen tymes?
(BloopFri 16 Jul, 22:10,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 14:06,
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heres to anyone feeling a little hungover today
(Rattleheadall time with the gay, forever touching,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:29,
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SICK FILTH!
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:29,
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B&!
(Kobahttp://sexycooladventures.blogspot.com/,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:34,
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CR&
(MrPineapple.co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:45,
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BL& S8
(Kobahttp://sexycooladventures.blogspot.com/,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:46,
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that you?
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:29,
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no,
my twin
(Rattleheadall time with the gay, forever touching,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:30,
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(Duke Otterbyyou pre-verts,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:24,
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what if there were robots?
(crand_.-~stupid ascii thing~-._,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:27,
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then it would be sexy robot fantasy
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:27,
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*desires*
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:28,
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ahhh yeah
Hookerbot 2000
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:30,
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it goes around saying 'INPUT INPUT'
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:31,
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must be looking for a suitable dongle
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:48,
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aliens?
(crand_.-~stupid ascii thing~-._,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:29,
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sexy alien robots
:D
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:30,
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space ships?
(crand_.-~stupid ascii thing~-._,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:33,
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space ships with tits!
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:47,
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big weapons that shoot lasers?
(crand_.-~stupid ascii thing~-._,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:52,
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it would be sci-fi fantasy
to early for steampunk
(Duke Otterbyyou pre-verts,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:30,
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fantasy
decent science fiction really only comes in book format though.
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:27,
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A remix of one from last night
...and does anyone know where I can download simple 3d models for free? I just want simple shapes such as spheres right now. Pretty much everything I've turned up on the Google has been a waste of time.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:17,
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(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:26,
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you see noise, i see stochasticity.
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:29,
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well you would
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:30,
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Aren't simple geometric shapes like spheres built in to most programs?
(Paper 'n PencilThirst is excellent, even better than I hoped,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:26,
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Not photoshop.
I thought CS3 came with some sample models but I can't find them.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:38,
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Isn't there a way of rendering some 3D shapes in photoshop?
I can't remember how, but it maps the layer onto a sphere or cuboid.
I know I've done it, but I just don't remember what the option was. I think it was under the filters options or something.
(MrPineapple.co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:43,
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Yes but you need a 3d object to apply the layer on to.
(Paper 'n PencilThirst is excellent, even better than I hoped,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:45,
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Nonono, it generates the object too.
I know it USED to be in photoshop, but I've not found it because I've not been looking for it. It was used in PS7, so I can't imagine it disappearing so soon.
(MrPineapple.co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:48,
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I reckon you're thinking of the "3d transform" filter
which works by deforming the layer's contents so that it appears to wrap onto a 3d shape. Once you apply the transformation, that's that, it's a flat 2d render, not an object. Ashally the 3d transform filter is longer installed with CS3, although it's still tucked away in the extras and you can install it yourself if you want. CS3 though has true 3d model handling capability, so that you can rotate, scale, reposition, relight, and texture an imported 3d object in space without transforming it to a flat layer at any point.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:55,
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Aha, that must be what I was thinking of.
It was a pretty shitty feature really, but I couldn't remember it flattening the render.
(MrPineapple.co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:56,
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CS3 included the capability to import 3d models in a variety of formats
and to rotate and light them. But it doesn't include the capability to create 3d models from scratch, at least not as far as I can make out.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:46,
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Ah, I see.
Hmm, Cockweasle got some new Bryce models from Tahkcalb, they might be able to help.
(MrPineapple.co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:51,
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They're all Hitlers.
They aren't spherical at all.
(mofaha┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 14:57,
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I want your clothes, your boots and your moto...Awww shit!
(Paper 'n PencilThirst is excellent, even better than I hoped,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:07,
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That bad, eh....
(Paper 'n PencilThirst is excellent, even better than I hoped,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:24,
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vespa!
I want a vespa now
for vespa related adventures
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:27,
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hahah
(k3b/-\bPeace man.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:30,
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out of the way,I AM DOUGLAS QUAID!!!
(Rattleheadall time with the gay, forever touching,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:57,
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(riverghostservicing your mum since,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:11,
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hehe!
never use a sunbed while wearing a balaclava
(BloopFri 16 Jul, 22:10,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:28,
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my pc
blew up 6 months ago hence no posts, I have managed to rescue my hard drive, but the rest is cobbled together, Im not sure on the moniter colours is it that bad?
(floored_geniusa product of the jesus christ superstore.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:34,
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Your monitor must be bad!
It's black and white!:P
(riverghostservicing your mum since,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:38,
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I see
you haven`t lost your hummus
(floored_geniusa product of the jesus christ superstore.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:40,
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and you your soup
(riverghostservicing your mum since,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:45,
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heh heh
is happy toast still producing the good stuff ? its been months since I have been here
(floored_geniusa product of the jesus christ superstore.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:50,
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Yeah
I'm guessing you haven't heard about The Wrong Door?
(riverghostservicing your mum since,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 13:12,
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sorry had to work
wrong door yes mr and mrs wheatly read about that which promted me to rebuild pc (which is not my forte)
(floored_geniusa product of the jesus christ superstore.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 14:31,
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I am sorry for your loss.
It's not that bad, I'd go for something like this.
(BloopFri 16 Jul, 22:10,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:41,
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ahh
I see the difference now, thanks for that will strive to do better next time
(floored_geniusa product of the jesus christ superstore.,
Sat 27 Sep 2008, 12:43,
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