Request - digital watercolor engine
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hi all mates.
first please take a look at this:
http://art-yeganegi.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-refined-watercolor-technique.html
....after a looong conversation and discussion here (on SCF) I made some fast and resonable steps to achieve an watercolor render out of sketchup+photoshop....steps are easy now... and needs no strange knowledge of photoshop/sketchup...so I thought maybe if I share the steps, there maybe some artist/coders to make a NPR tool inside Sketchup that makes watercolor-like renders..out of sketchup with no extra need to photoshop... so It would be nice if some masters pay attention to this.
majid -
I'm interested for sure. Do you have something posted about the process already? Does it take place inside SU entirely? Or are you looking for someone to make a template exporter of sorts, with a series of images that get plugged easily into Photoshop or something? This has been an interest of mine since before I could write rubies, so let's see what you've got!
Chris
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it is a combination of SU+PS 2 image exported from SU and then some tricks over them in PS... I hope it is possible inside SU
(Chris I PMed you 
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We'll see if its possible inside of SU. SU does not do image manipulation. But perhaps there could be some sort of PS line commands to run a batch filter on the images or something that could make it work so the user never has to open Photoshop. But I have no experience there, but I am interested in looking into it,
Chris
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If you want to manipulate bitmap images from Ruby you should look at ImageMagick and a Ruby interface to it. A quick search on RubyForge found two interfaces to the command-line IM tools (which is the way I would go, for SU) and two wrappers for the IM library itself.
I'm familiar with IM, but I have no experience with using it from Ruby either in- or outside of the SU Ruby environment. I'd be glad to help you test/experiment with stuff, though (but only in Windows
).Hope that helps
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Ok mates
it is very appreciated...that you are interested in.
I am dreaming a tool that works inside SU, don't know is it possible or not? but waiting suggestions. -
It doesn't work like that. We need to know what your method is to determine if it is doable inside Ruby. ImageMagik lets you do some image editing through a programming interface, but its not nearly as versatile as photoshop or gimp. I think its a better solution, because its free to distribute, so it would be easy to wrap it all up into a script. But we need to know if your process is something that IM could handle... So what exactly needs to be accomplished?
Chris
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dear mates ...I havn't poblished the process yet...so if you are interested to do a co-work plz email me at : majid - ye ga negi (at) yah... com so that i could share you the process
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