Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Bring and Brag => Topic started by: the other anonymous on July 03, 2005, 01:55:25 PM

Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: the other anonymous on July 03, 2005, 01:55:25 PM
All Apostles are remembered in some sense, forgotten in some sense, never known in some sense, remembered and forgotten in some sense, remembered and never known in some sense, forgotten and never known in some sense, and remembered and forgotten and never known in some sense.

http://tinypic.com/6p511d.png
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Malaul on July 03, 2005, 02:06:08 PM
ooooooooo
tghats NICE
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.) on July 04, 2005, 02:27:42 PM
Was that run through potrace? Fantastic. :)
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on July 04, 2005, 07:03:24 PM
Very nice, I need to figure out how to do that so I can make actual art.
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: the other anonymous on July 06, 2005, 08:02:43 AM
Oh cool! Positive feedback! And people want to know how I did it.

Yep, potrace. First, I compared all of the versions of the image I had and chose the one with the most detail. Then I doubled the image's size, played with the contrast a little, and then got tedious.

PSP3 lets you zoom in real close (I prefer around 8:1) and have two colors on the mouse (left-click and right-click). So, for two or three days, I changed each pixel to black or white, occasionally potracing to see if the results were any good.

And I did that to each and every line and curve in the image.

The results aren't perfect though. I changed a few highlights that weren't tracing that well, and added a disc to the crest. The discs aren't as round as I'd like them either, but by the time I noticed it I was sick of looking at Syadasti and said "good enough."
Title: Gorgeous!
Post by: eL sTiKo on July 06, 2005, 12:19:47 PM
Mind if we put it in a forthcoming book?
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: the other anonymous on July 07, 2005, 05:00:08 AM
Quote from: eL sTiKoMind if we put it in a forthcoming book?

It's public domain. There's only one piece of advice on asking permission to use a public domain work:

Talking to yourself is okay -- but if you answer yourself, you have a problem. ;)
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on July 07, 2005, 05:35:36 AM
He's full of shit!





There's nothing wrong with answering yourself.
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: DJRubberducky on July 07, 2005, 02:56:36 PM
Agreed!  It's when you have to ask yourself to repeat yourself to yourself that you have a problem!
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Shibboleet The Annihilator on July 07, 2005, 06:20:31 PM
A hearing problem maybe.
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Fizzwitz Glorypoop on July 07, 2005, 10:32:53 PM
Link's not working.  :cry:
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: the other anonymous on July 08, 2005, 05:09:13 AM
Quote from: Fizzwitz GlorypoopLink's not working.  :cry:

Works for me ???
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Bella on July 08, 2005, 05:10:38 AM
Works for me, too.
That's very nice work, btw.
Title: Sri Syadasti: The Forgotten Apostle
Post by: Anonymous on July 10, 2005, 09:04:54 PM
Yeah, it works for me now.