SpeedSix.Brush   (Discreet Box3)



PURPOSE

Creates an artistic impression of an image based on one of several styles of paint application. The input image is recreated by reproducing it using several brush texture images, laid down at positions and densities, and in colours, sizes and orientations determined by the selected style and by features detected in the input image.

brusha.jpg brushb.jpg



INPUT CLIPS

brushH1.jpg Example : Painting

 1: Painting : What you want to paint a picture of! From the example image above, it is a portrait.

brushH2.jpg Example : Canvas

 2: Canvas : The canvas or paper on which to paint. Start off with a piece of white paper to hel you see what is gonig on.

brushH3.jpg Example : Matte

 3: Matte : Painting can be restricted to this area. If the Red component of this image is NOT black, then a brush will be applied to the canvas.

brushH4.jpg Example : Control

 4: Control : The gradients within this image control the direction of the brush. Usually the image to be painted is a natural choice.



Brush   CONTROL PAGE

Style  (List Box  Options: Felt tip | Splat | Water | Stipple | Pencil | Pastel | Chalk | Splodge | Oil | Cubic, Default: Chalk)
The style setting will give a 'base level' starting point for each style of painting
Brush  (List Box  Options: Felt tip | Splat | Water | Stipple | Pencil | Pastel | Chalk | Splodge | Oil | Cubic, Default: Chalk)
Brush style for the painting. The default setting uses a matching brush but you can use a 'chalk' mark in a 'cubist' painting if you wish.
Influence  (Number  Min: 0.0, Max: 100.00, Default: 0.0)
     Controls the extent to which the painting is biased towards the (Colour). Set this to zero to prevent any bias.

BoxCol  (Colour Box  Default: R: 65535, G: 65535, B: 65535, A: 65535)
     You can choose to give the painting a bias towards this colour (see Influence). Choose a bright colour for a full range of tones.

Min Brush Size  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 100, Default: 5)
Max Brush Size  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 100, Default: 10)
Brush Sizes  (Number  Min: 3, Max: 100, Default: 21)
     These control the range of brush sizes available for painting with. The three brushes are reproduced internally in a range of sizes, with different sizes being used for each painting level - generally, smaller sizes with higher levels.

Start Angle  (Number  Min: -360.0, Max: 360.00, Default: -180.0)
End Angle  (Number  Min: -360.0, Max: 360.00, Default: 180.0)
Angles  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 90, Default: 16)
     These control the range of brush orientations that will be used. Internally, the brushes used for a painting are reproduced at a number of rotations. The orientation used during painting depends on the gradients in the brush orientation control image. Given a wide enough latitude in angles (set by this control) the brushes can be made to follow features in the image being painted.

Use Random  (Checkbox  Default: Off)
Off: continuity between output frames in a clip will be maximised. The total effect should be reproducible from frame to frame, given that no parameters change with time. Turning Random off will also effect the behaviour of the style dependent Factor 3, which in random mode normally adds a roughness to the medium we are painting on.
On: a random selection of brush strokes will take place and there will be no continuity between frames. Factor 3 will also change in behaviour.

Quantity  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 20, Default: 1)
     How much paint to use. The higher the value the more strokes applied....and slower.

Colour steps  (Number  Min: 1.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 100.0)
     Reduce the numbers of colours in the image to be painted - flatten it out.

Detailing  (Number  Min: 0.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 4.0)
     Smoothing out the detail to create interesting gradients.

Reset Style  (Pushbutton)
     Set the currently selected style defaults.

Demos  (List Box  Options: Water1 | Water2 | Water3 | Water4 | Oil1 | Oil2 | Oil3 | Oil4 | Chalk1 | Chalk2 | Chalk3 | Chalk4 | FeltTip1 | FeltTip2, Default: Water1)
Select a preset to get you going.
More Demos  (List Box  Options: Pastel1 | Pastel2 | Pencil1 | Pencil2 | Pencil3 | Pencil4 | Splat1 | Splat2 | Stipple1 | Stipple2 | Splodge1 | Splode2 | Cubic1 | Cubic2, Default: Pastel1)
Select a preset to get you going.


Tweaks   CONTROL PAGE

Reverse Bias  (Checkbox  Default: Off)
     Reverse brush ordering of sizes

Max Levels  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 10, Default: 7)
     How many layers of paint to be applied.

Start Level  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 10, Default: 1)
     Start painting at level x, skipping the larger brushes

End Level  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 10, Default: 7)
     End painting at level x, skipping the smaller brushes

Skip Level  (Number  Min: 1, Max: 20, Default: 1)
     Skip intermediary levels.

Start Factor 1  (Number  Min: 0.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 0.5)
     Paint thickness possibly, depending on the style selected.

Start Factor 2  (Number  Min: 0.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 0.0)
     Paint dryness possibly, depending on the style selected.

Start Factor 3  (Number  Min: 0.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 0.0)
     Paint quality possibly, depending on the style selected.

Use Matte  (Checkbox  Default: Off)
     Turn on to activate the matte clip to limit where a mark is made.

Invert Matte  (Checkbox  Default: Off)
     Reverse the application of Black to White

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