Conformal mappings / Spiral Mandala in Photoshop? Cool technique I can’t figure out.

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lanranger
Sep 1, 2006
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I’m not entirely sure I’ve got the right name but this is the effect I’m trying to recreate:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbprzd/183419808/in/set-7215759 4172266668/ http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=183602032&size=m

It’s an incredibly cool Escheresque/Fractal kind of technique and I’d love to know how to do it. The only pointers I can find on how to do it involve Linux and Gimp, two things I’d just assume avoid (nothing personal, I just don’t know the software).

There must be some kind of plugin somewhere that can facilitate these kinds of manipulations. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Tom Nelson
Sep 3, 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=183602032&size=m I don’t know how he did it but here’s how I think it could be done in Photoshop. The original photo was this:
http://www.tnphoto.com/fractal.gif
The boy is sitting on the couch with a blank frame propped against his shoulder. The frame with the hand holding it is a separate photo (the hand looks out of scale, doesn’t it?). Both the frame in the boy’s photo and the frame closeup were distorted using Filter>Liquify. The photographer removed the boy’s hand and inserted the frame, omitting the frame’s bottom right corner. The photo at that point looked like this:
http://www.tnphoto.com/fractal2.gif
To blend the two, the photographer added yellow frame and red cushion where I’ve painted yellow and red in my sketch.

All that was left to do was copy the image, reduce it and paste it into the frame over and over.

What do you think?

Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson Photography

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Ethergnat wrote:

I’m not entirely sure I’ve got the right name but this is the effect I’m trying to recreate:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbprzd/183419808/in/set-7215759 4172266668/ http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=183602032&size=m
It’s an incredibly cool Escheresque/Fractal kind of technique and I’d love to know how to do it.
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lanranger
Sep 6, 2006
It might be possible to simulate the effect that way. The images that I’m aware of use a Gimp plugin called mathmap. It warps images based on a set of mathematical criteria and can create a great many effects.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbprzd/tags/mathmap/
http://math.stanford.edu/~henrys/printgallery/
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/mathmap/index.html

Thanks for your input though. Sorry it took so long to respond, I’ve been ill.

-Mike
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Tom Nelson
Sep 7, 2006
Fascinating stuff!
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson Photography

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Ethergnat wrote:

It might be possible to simulate the effect that way. The images that I’m aware of use a Gimp plugin called mathmap. It warps images based on a set of mathematical criteria and can create a great many effects.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbprzd/tags/mathmap/
http://math.stanford.edu/~henrys/printgallery/
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/mathmap/index.html
Thanks for your input though. Sorry it took so long to respond, I’ve been ill.

-Mike

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