Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths

…just wanted to share this for people interested in mathematical art…another superb making-of by the best shader coder on the planet:

Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths

The shader/shadercode itself can be found here

It won the 4 KByte Exe-Graphics compo on this years Revision demo party. Don’t try to view this on RISC OS or a computer with a super old graphics card ;-)

The instruction video is even more bloody amazing than the result itself.

Huh…

High school mathematics? I was never able to create a winter wonderland and girl with maths. Must be doing something wrong with my life.

But, yes. WTactualF. All of that from a pile of scary looking equations? Kind of makes you doubt reality. Maybe we’re all just formulae?

I was never able to create a winter wonderland and girl with maths. Must be doing something wrong with my life.

Ah, yes, and good at mathematical programming would you have practiced to be if you could create a “hard light”¹ anime girl?

All of that from a pile of scary looking equations? Kind of makes you doubt reality. Maybe we’re all just formulae?

So how simple is the equation for Trump? :)

Much thinking

¹ Mixing a bit of Red Dwarf in there for you.

The instruction video is even more bloody amazing than the result itself.

I agree. The picture itself I dislike. What is with the huge glassy eyes? The absence of wrinkles? The commerrcial overtones swamp the human ones. There have been dozens of artists and draughtsmen with their own styles whose efforts I would find more attractive. There appears to be a whole industry of animation whose productions plumb the depths of kitsch. Now software that could reproduce the style of an artist, that I would like to see.

Now software that could reproduce the style of an artist, that I would like to see.

I remember software that could reproduce the style of a composer – JS Bach IIRC – so why not?

I see that our new user 8905 has absorbed the idea that this forum is nothing to do with computers or RISC OS in their very first posting and is already better at it than we are!

To reproduce a style, is quite different from the act of creating

Some people do things “in the style of” for fun, as well as their own compositions.

e.g. Probably not the version of the Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby that most people would know.

…regarding the style, I mean it’s of course a matter of taste, but when you know that he worked for about 5 years for Pixar you’ll get why it looks like it looks. According the his webpage he was (citation) in charge of building the procedural sets for the films, doing the dressing, modeling and shading in the shots as well as creating the software/algorithms and architecture needed to do so, including the low level development.

I really like that he shares his knowledge and writes tons of articles on his webpage (here)