Musing : Confusing : Deluding

I bought CS4 Production Premium the other day. I haven’t had much time to play with it, but I did download a few Flaming Pear plugins and make this desktop background for myself. I designed it for my laptop, so the 1440×900 is the original, and the 1600×1200 is just scaled up (non-uniformly) from that.

Download 1440×900 or 1600×1200.

This is a white Cosmos flower that I photographed shortly before I left home for Cornell. I used this image as my desktop background for a while and liked it, so I made a few standard sizes should anyone else want to do the same.

Desktop-sized images: 1600×1200, 1024×768, 1440×900.

The 1440×900 one (with MacBook Pro screens in mind) has been cropped slightly to fit the wider ratio. A similar-size image with all the original data is available as 1440×1080.

I’ve modified the Context Free “weighting demo” to be more colorful. Basically, I set saturation to 1.0 and made each branch add a bit to the hue (starting at 0, for red). Not big code changes, but I think this version produces much more attractive images.

I adjusted the whitespace to make a little more sense, and switched to using all verbose commands for clarity.

Download the cfdg, or copy:

startshape SEED1

background {
    brightness -1
}

rule SEED1 {
    SQUARE{}
    SEED1 {
        y 1.2 size 0.99 rotate 1.5
        brightness 0.03 hue 0 saturation 1.0
    }
}

rule SEED1 0.05 {
    SEED1 { flip 90 }
}

rule SEED1 0.05 {
    SQUARE{}
    SEED1 {
        y 1.2 rotate 1.5 size 0.99 flip 90
        hue 10 brightness -0.5
    }
    SEED1 {
        x 1.2 y 1.2 rotate -60 size 0.6
        brightness -0.5
    }
    SEED1 {
        x -1.2 y 1.2 rotate 60 flip 90 size 0.5
        hue 10 brightness -0.5
    }
}