firstdefence Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 A slight distraction but I believe in using whatever medium gives you the results you need to achieve. There is a nifty little app called Context Free it requires learning a bit of code but even I can learn it so it's definitely not hard to get to grips with. The patterns and animations it can generate are neat. It's multi-platform and your creations can be exported as PNG or SVG. https://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/view.php?id=2913 Alfred 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 5 hours ago, firstdefence said: Adding any filter into the mix will ultimately rasterise the artwork. Worth remembering, because I hadn't. I'll be working with shapes for now, but the conversation is still interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 4 hours ago, iconoclast said: . . . Expand the Stroke, so it will be scaled with the transformation anyway. What I want is the opposite, usually. Keep a consistent 2px or whatever width, regardless of scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 3 hours ago, firstdefence said: A slight distraction but I believe in using whatever medium gives you the results you need to achieve. Back when I used to have to produce results, that's how I worked. These days, the process is what has value to me, and the result gets posted to Instagram and mostly forgotten. With Photoshop, I used to do some pretty cool things with svg text and JavaScript. Eager for the day we can use Python with Designer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 13, 2022 Staff Share Posted June 13, 2022 Hi @spinhead, I believe what you are looking for is a Blend Tool, which allows you to start with a shape (any shape) and blend it into another completely different along a defined number of steps and using different profiles (to define how the gap changes between the instances of the blend). Depending on the implementation, it may also let you attach or follow a specified path. Unfortunately this is not available in Affinity apps although has been requested quite a few times. You may want to add your voice to the existing feature request threads if this is indeed what you are trying to achieve. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 24 minutes ago, MEB said: I believe what you are looking for is a Blend Tool Cool function, but not what I'm looking for. A blend tool fills in. What I do is make a change (or changes) and extend them to see where they go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 2 hours ago, spinhead said: With Photoshop, I used to do some pretty cool things with svg text and JavaScript. Eager for the day we can use Python with Designer Apparently there is a suggestion that the scripting language would be JavaScript. No time frame as to when just a "working on it" comment. NotMyFault 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 Just now, Old Bruce said: Apparently there is a suggestion that the scripting language would be JavaScript. There may be a reason that's what Adobe uses. (Or maybe not.) JavaScript is my kryptonite. Maybe I'll create a Py/js transmogrifier thingy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, spinhead said: Cool function, but not what I'm looking for. A blend tool fills in. What I do is make a change (or changes) and extend them to see where they go. Maybe a Morphing Tool is what you are looking for. It blends images from one to another using keypoints you can set in both, the source and the target image. It is a combination of blending and warping. I had a Freeware Tool for it years ago that worked pretty well - also to morph in animations. Unfortunately I forgot its name. GIMP also had a function like that in its animation Plugin GAP (GIMP Animation Package). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 4 minutes ago, spinhead said: Maybe I'll create a Py/js transmogrifier thingy. I'd like one of those, I have a cardboard box ready to hold it. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 12 minutes ago, iconoclast said: using keypoints you can set in both, the source and the target image. The point is, I don't want to specify the target image. The artistic process here is to create small changes and watch them propagate toward some unknown result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 12 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I'd like one of those, I have a cardboard box ready to hold it. This being Opposite Day, I'll have that ready Real Soon . . . Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Do you have a link to your instagram that we can take a gander at, might help us understand the ununderstanbleness of this post 🤪 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javiersc Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 maybe the manipulation at the end give you more control of the work and content cool.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconoclast Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, spinhead said: The point is, I don't want to specify the target image. The artistic process here is to create small changes and watch them propagate toward some unknown result. Probably fractal generators like Apophysis, Wonderworld Wonderland and Mandel Bulber (3D) would be interesting for you. Not for this project, but for aesthetic art with unknown results. You may possibly also find a generator for your certain project. I'm not sure. Maybe take a look at the fractal stuff you find e.g. on SourceForge.net. Also GIMP has at least a Flame Generator, an IFS-Fractal-Generator and a Fractal Explorer on board (menu "Filter" > "Render" > "Fractal"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 For the moment, I'm perfectly happy with the fairly minor limitation regarding curves. My IG feed is private but here are a few examples. All three came from playing with a single curve, resized/reshaped in ways the work to power-dup curves. firstdefence, thomaso, SureWeb and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Starting to get a sense of what you do now, in particular, I like the last one. I use another app called Excentro I think would take your fancy... iconoclast and javiersc 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 13, 2022 Staff Share Posted June 13, 2022 7 hours ago, spinhead said: Cool function, but not what I'm looking for. A blend tool fills in. What I do is make a change (or changes) and extend them to see where they go. Thanks for clarifying @spinhead. In that case you may want to try combining symbols and power duplicate which allows to apply transforms at both object and nodes level. Here's a simple example only transforming objects: power_duplicate_and_symbols.mov iconoclast, firstdefence and Old Bruce 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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