hatch, crosshatch, rendering challenge

[Lazur]

Here it is, a "newsprint" halftone filter:

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Without the fancy blending, just simulating three ink fills:




There seems to be a cairo rendering issue on repeating radial gradients when the handles are too small so had to go with linear gradients fot the hatch base.

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Hatching with a "snowflake based pattern":

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Not exactly a hatch but a halftone pattern -made with the same concept and slightly altered filter:



Got a few more with variants of the source pattern in this collection.

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[BlueKnight]

Are all of these filters or you did it by hand? Just curious.

Thank you!

[Lazur]

Made the filters myself and added them to existing images mostly.

Used openclipart as a host and they won't accept raster images. However such a filter looks best on images with a wide tone range&details, so mostly on raster images -those cases I made a bitmap copy of the filtered object and traced the result.
Like with that teddy bear. Although tracing that was just the result of some buggy behavior of inkscape.

Off topic:

Planning to outsource all my uploads from openclipart in the long run but currently I have no time or energy to deal with them.

[Lazur]

halftone filtering template

-click to download the svg-


As easy as that sounds.
This is the filter I was using in the response video here.

[Lazur]

Had to modify the process a bit -even further- because the resulting paths had at least 30000+ nodes after some testing and there was one with even 170000+ nodes... probably too heavy for copy/pasting.
Instead had to remove any unnecessary parts after the trace bitmap of the original -remove unwanted layer, filter and resizing the page in an earlier step.

Some of these examples:















Some of the better ones couldn't get a thumbnail generated by ocal so just sharing the links:

street scene
gondola
forest
lamp
lock
pigeons

[Lazur]

Update:
uploaded the raster copies to potrace at openclipart.org so they could cope with rendering the thumbnails -so probably they were not using inkscape for that part, still it's mostly made with inkscape:















Last one had some displacement map applied for a "feathered trace" effect. Not sure if it will last long with openclipart's no logo policy though. Well I'd be interested if there was a technology getting out sharp details from something that grainy.

[Lazur]

Made a new template file with this wave pattern:



To suit the pattern, made some tracing of Japan related images.
Figure of speech because for the actual tracing I used the online upload option of openclipart -potrace at openclipart.com.
Haven't seen the svg-s they generated, but probably they have 100000+nodes.
As they generate inkscape made svg-s thumbnails with inkscape 0.91, some previous attempts had thumbnail issues -missing- so it's also a safe bet that they may not render best inside inkscape at the moment.
Needs testing.

Anyway, the process was the following:
opening this template with inkscape,
importing a raster image from pixabay,
resizing it if necessary to a roughly 4800 px/3600 px size -not really necessary-
and creating a raster copy (Alt+B) and deleting both images.
This results creating a raster image with the filter flattened inside the svg's folder, which then I uploaded to the mentioned potrace site.

Still rendering the raster copy took some time.


Here are a few examples:





















Maybe the filter should be tweaked so that the full black/white tones wouldn't cause unfilled/flooded areas.

[brynn]

Wow, in the 2nd to last one, it's interesting how it handles the tree branches without leaves. I really like that effect.

[Lazur]

Hmm I think what you see there is how this filter represents higlights with unfilled areas and darkest tones with full coverage which is more of a flaw than a feature.

Anyway, made a couple more of this wavy halftone with the exact template as before -there are now around 100 images in the series-.

Also got this link from Tavmjong:
screening

Some of the recent ones
(hoping the thumbnails will be processed finally):

[brynn]

...more of a flaw than a feature.

Still like it

[Lazur]

New screening pattern in action:





Template is available here.

[Lazur]

Another day, another screen:



Template is available here.



Template is available here.

[Lazur]

collection of templates

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