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Studio notes / Stage 2

Engineer.

Algorithms are designed, combined, and parameterised into reusable effect sequences — each one a building block in a personal visual toolkit.

Work with the image
A working study

Your image and decisions continue through these four pages.

Study 01384 × 384 px
Preparing the study…
Current result

Stage 2 / 04

Decide how the image can change.

An emboss kernel turns brightness changes into relief. Atkinson dithering translates tone into dots. Swapping their order changes what the second operation receives.

A repeatable sequence02 operations
EmbossAtkinson

Change a value or reverse the order. The study rebuilds from its source; later cashier experiments start again.

Developing the image…

Return to the whole study

Available Building Blocks

The lab provides a set of interactive tools — each encapsulating a class of image processing algorithms. These tools are the vocabulary; effect chains are the sentences.

Kernel LibraryBrowse and apply convolution kernels with live previewsNoise FunctionsGenerate Perlin, Value, Worley noise with parameter controlsDithering LabApply Floyd-Steinberg, Bayer, and other dithering techniquesColor Theory LabGenerate color harmonies and extract palettes from imagesFractal ExplorerInteractive Mandelbrot and Julia set generation with zoomPattern GeneratorCreate procedural patterns with symmetry and fractals
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Effect Chains

An effect chain is a series of operations on an image, where each step works on the result of the previous one. The same operations in a different order give a different image.

Texture Pipeline

  1. Source Image
  2. Perlin Noise
  3. Sobel Edge
  4. Floyd-Steinberg
  5. Index Color
  6. Output

Fractal Pipeline

  1. Mandelbrot
  2. Color Map
  3. Gaussian Blur
  4. Bayer Dither
  5. Invert
  6. Output

Glitch Pipeline

  1. Source Image
  2. Pixel Sort
  3. Channel Offset
  4. CRT Scanline
  5. Posterize
  6. Output