ANN: ColorPattern Toolkit - Additions and Changes

[Wilhelm Sanke]

Version 2.0 of the "ColorPattern Toolkit" has been uploaded today 
(<http://www.sanke.org/Software/PatternToolkitWin.zip> and 
<http://www.sanke.org/Software/PatternToolkitMacOS.sit>)

Gallery "Pattern Art Three" shows some of the results of the new 
functions (page "Pattern Art Three" of <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>)

A stack "Slideshow-FGZ" has been added 
(<http://www.sanke.org/Software/slideshowFGZ.zip> as a separate stack 
for the Windows and included in the Mac version) to provide the 
possibility of viewing a series of compressed HTMLtext files when this 
option of saving images has been chosen; the other options are saving 
the images as JPG and PNG files, which can of course be viewed with any 
kind of image viewers including my stack "Slideshow Light" 
(<http://www.sanke.org/Software/DiaShow.zip>, which is a slideshow stack 
developed in 2001, but adapted to changes to the later engines up to today.

50 examples of compressed HTMLtext-images are included in the 
SlideshowFGZ.zip file, which could also be used with the "Colorpattern 
Toolkit" for further experimenting.

About 20 functions have been added in version 2.0 - mostly hidden inside 
various pull-down buttons -, among them some options for improved color 
variation, diagonal mirrors and overlays, added picture frames, and a 
function "refractions" creating sequences of decreased-size instances of 
an image.
Among the images where "refractions" was additionally applied are 
pictures "MetalFramework", "ComputerLab", "GlowingTown", "Hallway", 
"PseudoFractals", "SuccessiveWindows" which can be inspected on page 
"Pattern Art Three" of my website (<http://www.sanke.org/PatternArt3>).

One of the new functions I find very convenient for experimenting is 
"duplicate colors" (the button above the top of the image field). It 
gets its label from the fact that it simply duplicates the three color 
values again and again; using the right mousebutton reverses the 
process. Thus, different colors and patterns emerge with subsequent 
clicks until - after the 8th repeated run of the script - the start 
image appears again.
If you combine the use of this button with the two adjacent buttons 
"rotate colors" and "complementary colors" you get 42 different 
instances of one basic HTMLtext file which may be of course of very 
different esthetic values.

There are only few changes to the Help File so far, but it may be useful 
to read.


Best regards,

Wilhelm Sanke
<www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>