The Swami

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

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Yup; still having some fun with Salience's Voronoi stipper in combo with dynamic source masks.

Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 1:36 am **(#2)**

Great voronoi images at the moment lylejk!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Thanks, Skinnyhouse.

Fran6 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 6:09 am **(#4)**

I like this too, there are infinite findings to do. Thank you for sharing your experiments. :clap

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Why not an engraved version using the dynamic source mask. I did re-apply the regular background since the swirling wasn't to my liking.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 3/sizes/o/

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:48 am **(#6)**

Amazing work! I really wish I knew how you are doing these. For some reason I just don't understand.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Again, I used G'MIC's Euclidean to Polar (default settings) followed by a modified version of Halftone shapes (circle preset; I modified this preset to allow me to go down to a radius of 5 since 10 is just too low of a resolution; actually chose a radius of 6 for this result). I then to the inverse (Polar to Euclidean) operation and ran G'MIC's Pen preset to turn the halftone dots into lines.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:26 am **(#8)**

Cool one Lyle :bigthup

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:52 am **(#9)**

Here is my experimentation on what you've listed, with minor differences.
I hope you don't mind that I used the Swami image.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Thanks for the comments, Sallyanne. Nice coloring work, Greg.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Sep 23, 2017 1:19 pm **(#11)**

Thank You Lyle, I couldn't have done it without your ideas!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

I call this one, "A View Above the Swami's Plantation" lol

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PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sun Sep 24, 2017 1:47 pm **(#13)**

Sweet!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Still experimenting. This time I just used good ol' Whirl and Pinch (distort/recover) and another with opposite direction (and only ran G'MIC's Pen on one of the layers set to darken) for this result. I did Grain Merge that layer with the original and then ran G'MIC's Stamp preset for the final result.

dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Sep 24, 2017 11:14 pm **(#15)**

This last one is really very nice, I like it.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Thanks, Diego. If you can figure out a way to smooth out the dither dots, you can possibly just use GIMP's Distort>Newsprint preset instead of G'MIC.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Mon Sep 25, 2017 4:29 pm **(#17)**

Beautifully done! I love the detail and contrast.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Thanks, Greg.

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:23 am **(#19)**

I love the last one. It looks kind of like a print from an engraving, or the kind of pen and ink illustrations you used to get in childrens books.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12518

Thanks, Erisian. Still an experiment in process. Not like seams created in a majority of renders using the technique that I've been using at this time. May have to try some other methods, but only if I have some time. Way too busy today (to include working my part-time job; just finished my 40 hour full time weekend shift last night). Anyway, you all have a great day.