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Abbiamo chiesto a Owen Ransen di spiegarci cosa sia repliGATOR. Qui sotto troverete le sue parole. Il nostro consiglio è di seguire il link alla repliGATOR Home Page e scaricare la versione demo. Ne vale la pena !
repliGATOR is a graphics idea generator.
I was asked by Marco Fichera to write and article about repliGATOR for
ComCube, but it is
Saturday morning, it has been a hard week, and what am I going to write?
Putting off for "later in the day" the writing of the article I was testing the latest
release of repliGATOR, and this testing magically gave me the idea for this article.
Here is the idea repliGATOR offered me:
(NB: I am not a Christian and I am certainly not a Catholic, but the image
seemed interesting.)
So how was this image idea created? And how long did it take to make? Well
it was created by importing a rendered image of a church into repliGATOR
and hitting F7 a few times. F7 is when you abandon all hope of control
(abandon hope all who enter here!) and let repliGATOR decide how
to change the image. If you hit F7 six times you will have an Image Idea
Sequence of seven images, the original plus six image ideas.
After three or four F7s repliGATOR has used a "Fallen Letters Object Xform"
to create an interesting image, and I decided to use this image as the
start of a new image idea sequence. So hitting the Internal Copy And Paste
icon the image idea is transferred to another sequence to be used as the
original.
Then I hit F7 a few times again, thus creating another
Image Idea Sequence. And one of the images produced was the one you
see above (reduced in size to speed up Internet access). The final image
(which I have called "TheWord" for biblical reasons) was created by
repliGATOR using the "Liquid Energy Object Xform".
What is interesting in the above sequence is that at no time did I have
to twiddle with sliders or adjust settings or search for special dialog
boxes. I did not even have an idea in mind.
- I chose an already existing original image (the church).
- I imported the image into repliGATOR.
- I hit F7 until I found interesting transformed new version of the original image.
- I used this transformed version as another "original" image.
- I hit F7 until I found another interesting new version (the one you see above).
- I saved the image as a JPG file.
The whole thing took less than two minutes.
The image looks "designed". It looks as if someone (a Christian biologist maybe?)
had the idea to make this effect and worked for hours on it using Corel Draw
or PaintShopPro. But no. No one "had" this idea. And it took two minutes, not
two hours.
repliGATOR is an graphics idea generator.
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