Same setup as the previous two, Workshop 202306 #20, and Workshop 202306 #21. More colors added to the top layer, orange, yellow, white.

The layers are combined by "paint over" rather than "blend". Each pixel is the final image is from either the top or the bottom layer. The algorithm to choose which layer is of course also dependent on the underlying fractal-like calculation.

Here is the same setup as yesterday's image Workshop 202306 #20. Greater density on both layers.

A recap, in case you have not been following along. I am trying to combine layers for a composite image. I know that has been done forever, by everyone. I do not want to overlay two random images, there needs to be something to tie together the layers.

I had several failed attempts that have been discarded and forgotten. This image and the previous is something that worked well. I used a fractal like formula to generate the images. The same formula is used on both, but with different coloring rules.

I think this scheme has a lot of potential.

I am quite pleased with this one.

I have been describing these Workshop items as potential layers in a composite work. Here I combine two layers. The "formula" is a hybrid escape time fractal and iterated function system method. The same formula, same parameters, same window, etc. is used for both layers. The layers use different coloring methods on the same data. Shades of blue with craters form the bottom layer, wispy red curves for the top layer.

I am also reusing the faux light / edge enhancement algorithm described previously. (I am too lazy to find the previous post right now. If you are really interested, leave a comment and I will find it.)

This one could be a background layer or a foreground layer, or even a complete work. I am not sure what I am going to do with it. But it is too interesting to ignore, so it is going into the catalog.

Variant 3

Variant 2

Here are some ghostly, ethereal curves. Two more color variations follow.

Neon Colors

I was restraining myself with slight color tints on a mainly monochrome image. Sometimes you just have to let loose. Here are many twisty lines in neon colors.

Hyperbola Lines 3

Hyperbola Lines 2

I am still playing with variations on twisty lines. The next few have lines with hyperbola like crossings.

This one has the same pattern as the previous, but with yellow and orange colors.

Brown, black, white variant 4.

Brown, black, white variant 3.

Brown, black, white variant 2.

The next four pictures are wiggly line variants. All in brown, black, and white. The first three have the same basic pattern, but with color variations. Same colors, just used differently. The fourth has greater line density.

Wiggly Lines

I have published similar things in the past as finished works. This one could certainly stand alone as-is. But as I said a few posts ago, I am trying to decompose an imagined final composition. I am looking at potential layers that could be combined in a future work.

This one could be a foreground or a middle layer. The white background should be replaced by something more interesting. The twisty lines could be a background for something else.

The squares in the previous image are replaced with thin rectangles, placed with a limited set of orientations. Much more interesting this way.

50000 Rectangles #26 is similar. But with more planning on the placement and some small decorations inside the rectangles.

I will just jump in here.

An image has foreground and background. Perhaps also one or more intermediate layers. The layers need to work together, there should be some connection between them. Superposition of unrelated layers does not work well.

There are many exceptions to the preceding paragraphs. It contains many vague and undefined concepts. It also is not how I do art. When I do art, often something like the the description emerges, but it is not planned. Still I want to work with the paragraph.

Too often I get close to a finished piece and then I want to tweak some small aspect. When I do, something else does not work, which leads to a not very enjoyable game of whack-a-mole. Maybe if I think of these things ahead of time, the finish will be easier.

Today's image is a generalized or abstract image background cover. The white background would be replaced with solid or smoothly transition colors. That smooth background would be messed up with many small objects. Remember the squares are just a placeholder of a not-yet-determined object. With respect to the introductory paragraph, this is an intermediate layer, adjacent to the background.

The overlapped rectangles probably would not work for photographs on a wall. Overlap is ok for what I had in mind. The rectangles could be anything, they are just placeholders. They could be other geometric shapes, distorted shapes, line patterns, blobs, or kittens. Just kidding, I do not do kittens. They could be the same object, various distortions of a common object, of completely different things.