Picture to People 3D libraries are already able to make a correct mapping of some kinds of 3D objects that can not be represented by a implicit or explicit equation (usually equations make calculations and representations simpler).The more important is the normal vectors directions are calculated correctly. Sometimes a big problem with 3D models is that it's hard to know when you are inside or outside a complex object.
Above you can see a 3D object drew with its normals.
Since until now P2P deals very few with the "Z-axis", I needed to start a new sub-project for the core libraries. Basically there is nothing ready for this, so I will need to make all the low level 3D libraries from scratch.
I'm projecting this engine very carefully, since I wanna make it very clean and extensible. Possibly I will base it in some ray-tracing algorithm variation, but I'm still considering other alternatives like radiosity. In fact, probably it will be a merge of several techniques.
For now the main practical goal is to make a 3D text renderer able to generate awesome results. Since I already started a draft of some low level 3D libraries, above you can see a 3D letter in wire-frame already made with Picture to People.
Despite this blog is not the official P2P blog anymore, it's not finished.
First I have cleaned it a little. It was a mess. Since we put things in a blog step by step, sometimes we don't realize how "Frankenstein" it's getting.
Soon I will publish here what I'm planning for Picture to People site concerning layout, development, tools, etc.
I have just published the first post in the new Picture to People project's blog.
It will be simpler and lighter than this one. All relevant news and announcements about Picture to People will be posted there from now on.
I will keep this blog for more unofficial and personal (related to graphics) posts.
The new P2P blog is here: http://www.picturetopeople.org/blog/blog.html.
By the way, I will just start the new informal style of this blog desiring a happy new year for all my readers. All the best for all of you in 2009.
I intend to create a blog inside Picture to People site. I wanna get things together concerning Picture to People project.
I will make a cleaner, simplier blog in a style very similar to the site. When it get ready, of course I will move my entrecard to the new blog.
Anyway, probably I will keep this blog here for historical reasons. Maybe I decide to copy some posts from here to the new blog too.
Since Picture to People site was released kind of 2 weeks ago, I have been focused in increasing the roll of photo effects.Despite I have put there a lot of useful tool that are not effects (like reduce, enlargement, mirror, crop, square, etc), there are several new artistic effects too. Several ones you usually can't get with few clicks in (paid or not) graphic softwares.
Beside all development involving Computer Graphics, now I need to spend a lot of time maintaining and developing the site. Anyway, always I can, I will show here some new effect from Picture to People site.
Above you can see an example of an effect generated in Photo Effects / Carved section of Picture to People site.
Since EC admin now lets a EC user transfer up to 25,000 EC credits per week, Picture to People project has just started a contest involving reviews.
To get 1,000 EC credits:
- write a good review of Picture to People SITE (not this blog) as a post in your blog;
- at least 50 words;
-post date can't be in the past;
-you can not delete the post in future;
To get 2,000 EC credits:
- write a good review of Picture to People SITE (not this blog) as a post in your blog;
- at least 100 words;
- post date can't be in the past;
- you can not delete the post in future;
- your text must show your readers you really know Picture to People site; you should to talk about some positive experience using the free graphics effects there;
I suggest you send your review by email for checking. Send it to: leocda@gmail.com. The answer (approval or not) will be send by email too. If your review is approved, you will get your 1,000 or 2,000 EC credits until 24h after the review is online.
In my opinion, this task is very easy, because Picture to People site is free and offers a lot of professional Computer Graphics effects. It's not hard tell something good about it.
Good luck.
When I decided to create the Picture to People online branch, my intention concerning photo manipulation was release my effects that are hard to get in most of (even paid) graphic softwares. They can be very useful even for professional designers, mainly the effect groups: Cartoonization, Drawing, Mosaic, Painting, Pencil and Sketch.
Now the site is online and I get users feedback everyday. A lot of them have been asking for simple traditional photo editing tools, like Reduction, Grayscale, Contrast, Crop, Flip, etc. I'm working to meet their wishes and needs, so the number of this kind of utility is increasing fast in the site.
Beside this, Picture to People site has getting a good amount of photo effects very useful for the digital photo user with average skills, like Color Improvement, Dithering, Liquify, Makeup, Pastel and so.
Anyway, the roll of photo, text or pattern effects will keep increasing fast.
A lot of people is still in doubt about the pattern effects of Picture to People site. In fact, it's very simple to use, as everything there.
It's a generalization of the engine that makes the text effects. For Picture to People a "pattern" is a black shape in a white background, no matter how it looks like. You upload your image (pattern) and it will be a guide (a "directional field" in a math sense) when rendering the effect you have chosen.
Picture to people site will no refuse a non black and white image when doing a pattern effect; in this case, the input image will be made black and white internally. Beside this, usually your pattern doesn't need have a good resolution or be free of jagging. A lot of effects are immune to these problems and can accept very low quality patterns.
If you use the "closure" option, the renderizer will be cloistered by your pattern shape. In this case, you can choose freely the background color you want.
Above you see a pattern in very poor quality. After you see the result of applying an effect without closure and finally you see the same effect using closure with a soft purple as background.
The effects roll is increasing fast. For now I'm improving the list of photo effects.
Anyway, I will not talk about that in this post. I wanna tell you Picture to People site has just got very nice structural updates:
- now you can upload photos until 1200x1200 pixels and until 200 KB;
- now the result texts can have until 1200x600 pixels;
It's a really good increase comparing to the old sizes allowed.
