I all,
I agree with Dave that Wilhelm probably never intended to make a
political statement about Bush with his picture. Overhere in Europe it
is totally OK to make fun of people, whether we respect them or not.
In fact, I started this thread because I get a lot of requests from
guys who want to have a caricature of themselves. Most of them because
they have seen my self portret at http://terryv.hyves.nl/fotos/100011903//i8yH/
I hope this helps to settle it for Chipp (and others that felt
offended) and that it avoids stirring up a discussion on politics etc.
It is just a cultural thing; a difference between US culture and the
more egalitarian European approach. It doesn't have much to do with
(dis)respecting others, although I can imagine it felt like that.
To bring this back to the topic, I am very curious, Wilhelm, how you
did this with RunRev. Could you please mail me an example stack to use
the imagedata toolkit? Alternatively, where can I find more info? (I
use the beta of 2.9).
Thanks in advance.
Terry
Op 19 dec 2007, om 16:52 heeft Wilhelm Sanke het volgende geschreven:
In my reply of Nov 29 to thread "Any suggestions on how to "onion
skinning"?" I had mentioned some new features of my upcoming release
of
the "Imagedata Toolkit" - among them
"copying - and enlarging or shrinking - and pasting oval or
rectangular
portions of an image into the same or another image with variable
fringe
and/or overall blending into the basic image)."
I applied this to a photo of a not unknown public figure, the result
can
be inspected here:
<http://www.sanke.org/Software/SmilingBush.jpg>.
To achieve this I used a number of steps, in which about two of Ken's
five steps are applied, but most of which follow a different sequence
and are of another nature.
The basis for the "copying - and enlarging or shrinking - and pasting
oval or rectangular portions of an image" are rects, ovals, and
polygons in the form of images with transparent fringes of different
sizes.
I use a rectangular or oval graphic as a selection tool that can be
resized and dragged across the photo to select a portion of it (This
selection tool is similar to that used in my "seamless tiles 2"
stack).
The underlying image - the partially tranparent basic template - is
then
adjusted in location and size to the selected portion of the photo.
At the same time an already existing empty image "newimage" is also
set
to the selected portion of the image.
The imagedata of the selected portion of the photo are then read
into
the "newimage", and the alphadata of the template are applied to the
"newimage".
You can then enlarge or shrink "newimage" or leave it as it is and
drag it to any place on the photo. You can also flip "newimage".
Next step is to integrate the image- and alphadata of "newimage" into
the photo, either once or several times at different places. This
integration can be applied with variable levels of blending, in
addition to the transparent fringe of the template that ensures
optimal
blending into the photo.
If an enlarged portion of "newimage" should have been dragged to a
position where it overlaps the rect of the photo, the overlapping
parts
of "newimage" are then cut off in the process of integration.-
For "SmilingBush" I have only used a single oval template. The star -
taken from the left side - on his forehead - is partially blended. One
of the flags - taken from his lapel - has been flipped.-
I hope I do not cause trouble with this attempt of a caricature - as
it
happens in other parts of the world. Bush is indeed a known public
figure and as such often the object of caricatures.
Best regards,
Wilhelm Sanke
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