Caricature challenge

[Terry Vogelaar]

I all,

I agree with Dave that Wilhelm probably never intended to make a  
political statement about Bush with his picture. Overhere in Europe it  
is totally OK to make fun of people, whether we respect them or not.  
In fact, I started this thread because I get a lot of requests from  
guys who want to have a caricature of themselves. Most of them because  
they have seen my self portret at http://terryv.hyves.nl/fotos/100011903//i8yH/

I hope this helps to settle it for Chipp (and others that felt  
offended) and that it avoids stirring up a discussion on politics etc.  
It is just a cultural thing; a difference between US culture and the  
more egalitarian European approach. It doesn't have much to do with  
(dis)respecting others, although I can imagine it felt like that.

To bring this back to the topic, I am very curious, Wilhelm, how you  
did this with RunRev. Could you please mail me an example stack to use  
the imagedata toolkit? Alternatively, where can I find more info? (I  
use the beta of 2.9).

Thanks in advance.

Terry

Op 19 dec 2007, om 16:52 heeft Wilhelm Sanke het volgende geschreven:

> In my reply of Nov 29 to thread "Any suggestions on how to "onion
> skinning"?" I had mentioned some new features of my upcoming release  
> of
> the "Imagedata Toolkit" - among them
>
> "copying - and enlarging or shrinking - and pasting oval or  
> rectangular
> portions of an image into the same or another image with variable  
> fringe
> and/or overall blending into the basic image)."
>
> I applied this to a photo of a not unknown public figure, the result  
> can
> be inspected here:
>
> <http://www.sanke.org/Software/SmilingBush.jpg>.
>
> To achieve this I used a number of steps, in which about two of Ken's
> five steps are applied, but most of which follow a  different sequence
> and are of another  nature.
>
> The basis for the "copying - and enlarging or shrinking - and pasting
> oval or rectangular portions of an image"  are rects, ovals, and
> polygons in the form of images with transparent fringes of different  
> sizes.
>
> I use a rectangular or oval graphic as a selection tool that can be
> resized and dragged  across the photo to select a portion of it (This
> selection tool is similar to that used in my "seamless tiles 2"  
> stack).
> The underlying image - the partially tranparent basic template - is  
> then
> adjusted in location  and size  to the selected portion of  the photo.
> At the same time an already existing empty image "newimage" is  also  
> set
> to  the selected portion of the image.
> The imagedata of  the selected portion  of the photo are then read   
> into
> the "newimage", and the alphadata of the template are applied to the
> "newimage".
>
> You can then enlarge or shrink  "newimage" or leave  it as it  is and
> drag it to any place  on the photo. You can  also flip "newimage".
>
> Next step is to integrate the image- and alphadata of "newimage" into
> the photo, either once or several times at different places. This
> integration can be applied with variable levels of blending,  in
> addition to the transparent fringe of the template that ensures  
> optimal
> blending into the photo.
>
> If an enlarged portion  of  "newimage" should have been dragged to a
> position where it overlaps the rect of the photo, the overlapping  
> parts
> of "newimage" are then cut off in the process of integration.-
>
> For  "SmilingBush" I have only used a single oval template. The star -
> taken from the left side - on his forehead - is partially blended. One
> of the flags - taken from his lapel - has been flipped.-
>
> I hope I do not cause trouble with this attempt of a caricature - as  
> it
> happens in other parts of the world. Bush is indeed a known public
> figure and  as such often the object of caricatures.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wilhelm Sanke