matched set
Added a few minor tweaks to the “dial” subprogram, but the main thing I added was a batch of 80 or so photos that I shot over the past two weekends specifically for the purpose of feeding back in to these programs. The photographic process (though I called it cheating earlier) is helping me learn what patterns I am looking for in a composition, and also what details work best with the programs. I am taking lots of notes for an upcoming attempt at generating compositions from scratch.
Previously, my photos were formal studies with lots of straight flat lines; however, the conversion to vector really seems to produce the most interesting results when fed a photographic source with a balance of hard and soft transition areas (more curves and especially more gradients). The new photos reflect that– in fact, quite a few were shot on an old manual lens from the ’80s (Nikkor AI-S f2 85mm, if you must know… one of my dad’s castoffs), and are thus a tad out of focus (I am rusty with the manual focus thing). Blurry and grainy are not bad things in this context.
Subject matter? Closeups, mostly. Details of Park Slope storefronts, ripped subway posters, bicycle gears, sidewalks. The usual urban detritus bits and pieces I capture on walks around town. These two came out on consecutive runs, and I like them as a matched set. I have very little to complain about on either one.
dial049 and dial050
