r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pvrellis • Jun 21 '23
Pushing color mixing to the limits (it took me 4 years...) GIF
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u/Confusedandreticent Jun 21 '23
My mind was more than a little blown.
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Hey, I am still surprised with it, after years of working on it!
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u/muan2012 Jun 21 '23
Why did it take so long?
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u/pyremist Jun 21 '23
Supply chain issues. Those little bolts in the corner took forever to come in.
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u/Chimney-Imp Jun 21 '23
He drew it by hand
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u/Digger__Please Jun 21 '23
No he didn't, he's posted links to articles about the process
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u/BubbaBlount Jun 21 '23
Post this to r/lsd I’m sure they will fucking love this lol
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u/Dogecoin_olympiad767 Jun 21 '23
the face when it was slightly out of alignment was kind of what faces looked like to me after looking at them after a couple seconds while on LSD. Magical stuff.
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u/wakeupwill Jun 21 '23
This is an amazing analogy for certain psychedelic states! The fractals coalescing into a person, or a person fragmenting into fractals - it's stellar.
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u/Living_Bear_2139 Jun 21 '23
This is exactly what you see on lsd. Would love to mow this guys process.
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u/POWERTHRUST0629 Jun 21 '23
This is pretty much exactly what I saw at the beginning of that heavy DMT trip.
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u/Wonghy111-the-knight Jun 21 '23
Damn that’s insane. Hope this post does well mate
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Jun 21 '23
This user has posted this daily for a month across many many subs. It looks like they are trying for some form of advertising, I think. Their post history is just pages of this same link. It's very odd
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u/redditproha Jun 21 '23
i just looked through their history and it doesn’t seem that odd. they have a website, and apparently they’re greek as someone else mentioned, hence the broken english.
it takes luck to make a post go viral. not every post gets recognized on merit so the reposts make sense.
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u/takowolf Jun 21 '23
Regarding the phrasing the artist is Greek so presumably English isn’t their first language. But yeah they are an artist. They are trying to get attention and sell things, not much odd with that.
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u/spookymulder1502 Jun 21 '23
That's really insane. Couldn't see the face till the last second; then can't unsee it, even after separation. You're very talented.
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Thank you so much for your kind words!
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u/HsvDE86 Jun 21 '23
I can't even imagine knowing where to start.
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u/Meister0fN0ne Jun 21 '23
I could make out that it was a baby's face with the second layer, but the quality of the image when the last one was added surpassed what I was expecting by a mile.
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u/KonigSteve Jun 21 '23
When the 2nd layer got put on I thought it was going to be a joke post and the final image was going to be that painting that the amateur touched up of Jesus and then bam surprise it's actually a 4k baby.
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u/ohkayybye Jun 21 '23
same!! I thought it was going to turn into a cool flower or sth but wow, OP! amazing work!
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Jun 21 '23
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Thank you so much!
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u/BalkorWolf Jun 21 '23
This would be amazing if it could somehow be introduced into an art gallery! It's certainly got that kind of quality to it.
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u/demetercomplex Jun 21 '23
Crazy. First time I watched i only saw a flower (on the 2nd pic) now i can only see the baby's face the whole time. Wild!
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u/vyasis Jun 21 '23
Greatly talented and may I know the name of this art?
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Thank you so much!
I call it "computational color blending"
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u/PrivatePoocher Jun 21 '23
Incredible. There is something metaphysical about this. Something about frequencies and symmetry
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u/leia_nottheprincess Jun 21 '23
If you did this now with another picture would it take less time or is it the technical part that takes so much time?
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
The development of the process took years.
Now each artwork could take only a few days.
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u/worstsupervillanever Jun 21 '23 edited Jun 21 '23
Edit : OK nevermind. You're a bum. Maybe consider professional rock licking instead. You obviously have no future in art.
So, this is a unique thing that you developed yourself?
And no one has paid you for the IP yet?
Dude, just keep doing your thing. This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. Give it time. You'll be a rich fucker soon enough.
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u/Errrrrrrrrrah Jun 21 '23
This process is essentially screen printing but at level 1,000,000,000
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u/undeadlamaar Jun 21 '23
Screen printers HATE this one trick.(mainly cause we have enough shit to do already)
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u/Iggyhopper Jun 21 '23 edited Jun 21 '23
Because Photoshop can already do this. It's called layer blending.
The designs are awesome, but the process has existed for at least 10-15 years in the digital world.
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u/lemonickous Jun 21 '23
That was goddamn amazing! Any sources to read up would be greatly appreciated!
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Thank you so much!
My website: http://artof01.com/vrellis/works/AllAndOne.html
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Jun 21 '23
This is amazing! OP, do you have any videos explaining how did you do it? :)
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Thank you so much!
Here is my website: http://artof01.com/vrellis/works/AllAndOne.html
And a relative interview: https://thevalemagazine.com/2023/03/31/out-of-all-things-one-and-out-of-one-all-things-petros-vrellis-interview/
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Jun 21 '23
Okay. I don't comment on art that often. This is some of the most surreal and 'psychedelic' art I have ever seen in my life.
Really beautiful stuff! Thank you for creating this and sharing!
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u/holchansg Jun 21 '23
3D modeller here, i can give a more manual approach to this.
Colors can be viewed just as a math operation, imagine a color(in RGB space, 0-1 range instead of 0-255) as R 0, B 0, G 0.5, dark green, if i add R 1, B 1, G 0.5, it is now white.
Now imagine you do those operations, in this case, since it uses a white backlight in the real world as an operator idk if it would be additive, or multiplicative, but imagine it is additive for the sake of simplicity. You take those patterns you see on each block/image use them as mask and subtract part of the color from the final image, you work backwards. Now do this in code and you match OP art.
When i got to my PC i give an visual example.
For OP, great work, inspiring.
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u/plexomaniac Jun 21 '23
For printing, we usually use 4 color channels: cyan, magenta, yellow and black.*
What OP did is to have the same image but masked different parts of it in different channels. Judging by the other artword of Jesus that OP shared, looks like he does is programmatically, but even though it's complex, it's possible to do it manually in Photoshop.
You can pick an image like this and have a mask like this and another like this.
By overlaying them, you will have something like this until you put them exactly on top of each other.
You can see the original flower is not pink, but when I mask the cyan channel, I remove all cyan from it. How the flower is purpleish, without cyan it becomes magenta.
In this example, I'm masking only the cyan channel with a simple shape and using only two versions of the same image. OP used 3 and masked different parts with several shapes using all channels. Also, I used a basic mask that removed 100% of the cyan inside the triangle, but I could have a shape that only removes 25% of cyan and 75% of magenta is some areas.
OP's artwork is way more complex than my example, of course. My mask is just a black triangle. OP probably has the "mandala" mask made with several shades of gray and planned/programmed how they interact with each other.
*OP may be using CMY and making black using the other colors to simplify the process a little bit, but it's irrelevant.
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u/Impressive_Economy70 Jun 21 '23
I assume he separated with a computer?
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Yes, of course.
Here is more info: http://artof01.com/vrellis/works/AllAndOne.html
And an interview: https://thevalemagazine.com/2023/03/31/out-of-all-things-one-and-out-of-one-all-things-petros-vrellis-interview/
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u/Steppinrazor123 Jun 21 '23
They clearly used their hands, duh! /s
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u/breadlover19 Jun 21 '23
Yeah a computer could do it in way less than 4 years I bet
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u/I_Shot_Web Jun 21 '23
They mean that it took them 4 years to get the technique good enough to make this one, not that they spent 4 years making this single piece. Clickbait wording.
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u/aaj05 Jun 21 '23
Four years of someone's life all distilled and concentrated into a handful of seconds....what a beautiful experience!
Thanks OP, and time well spent!
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u/Original_A_Cast Expert Jun 21 '23
Damn…posted 30 times just within the last 8 days.
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u/FkUEverythingIsFunny Jun 21 '23
It's hard to get people to notice your shit, I think it's fine to repost OC if you're the creator trying to gain traction on your work. Sometimes posts just fall into the abyss due to timing or unfriendly algorithms
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u/Dogecoin_olympiad767 Jun 21 '23
the way it looked when slightly out of alignment is very similar to what faces looked like to me while on acid. Thanks for the memories
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u/Infernsam Jun 21 '23
Now can an Ai be capable of doing this?
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u/kaeporo Jun 21 '23
Definitely. This is fairly similar to steganography (another way of obfuscating an image inside other images). But even if you could train a machine learning tool to produce something like this, it would take longer to create a product of comparable quality to that of a human artist.
AI tools are still in their infancy - so "can" is basically guaranteed in the same way that "life on other planets" is basically guaranteed. "When" will we get there is a more interesting question.
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u/Corporate_Laughter Jun 21 '23
Looks like a Resident Evil puzzle. But, you know, better. Beautiful work!
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u/Significant-Dog-1298 Jun 21 '23
Holly molly, I ve seen things like this only while tripping on psychedelics, what if the visuals occurs like this? I mean by removing layer after layer 'till you see the very fabric of reality itself
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u/Key-Cat-8744 Jun 21 '23
step two: now develop a program that splits any image in this way :D
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u/awry_lynx Jun 21 '23
program
That's essentially what he did: https://thevalemagazine.com/2023/03/31/out-of-all-things-one-and-out-of-one-all-things-petros-vrellis-interview/
It is quite difficult to mention many technical details. It suffices to say that today the code (written in the programming language C++) has exceeded 5,000 lines. However, the central idea is simple. To use the easiest example, let’s say we want to create an image of a baby from three images of geometric patterns. The logic of the algorithm is to influence each geometric pattern image as little as possible so that the sum of the three pixels of the patterns produces exactly the corresponding pixel of the baby’s image. Thus, as long as the changes in the pixels of the patterns are relatively small, the patterns remain recognizable.
I think this is a fairly doable project for anyone with some coding practice, it reminds me a little of the 'mosaic program to assemble thousands of photos into an image' idea that was big a decade ago or so.
u/Significant-Dog-1298 since you expressed interest
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u/BotlikeBehaviour Jun 21 '23
Question: Does it matter what order in which you stack the layers?
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u/i_have_covid_19_shit Jun 21 '23
Flatlanders: what the fuck is that thing
My toddler: be not afraid.
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u/ivypax89 Jun 21 '23
This is absolutely insane! So much work but what a beautiful result! This is awesome!!
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u/insane_contin Jun 21 '23
Fuck you and those finely honed skills you've worked so hard to develop and are clearly paying off. Save some for the rest of us.
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u/Shekinahsgroom Jun 21 '23
THIS is why reddit should never go dark!
Where else could I ever find something so uniquely different and visually stunning!?
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Bravo man ...
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u/why_grapefruit_why Jun 21 '23
This is the most artistic and well executed creative thing I’ve ever seen on Reddit.
Crazy that there are other art adjacent subreddits that automatically removed this 4 months ago.
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Jun 21 '23
Color separations. Very neat how you did this. And very cool how tight your registration was at the end.
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Jun 21 '23
I can see this being used for some sort of tangible document encryption.
For art though imagine a giant room with 12 foot versions of these aligned in a way where if you stood in the right place you could see the image. OR think of a tunnel space with multiple setups at all sorts of angles aligning as folks walked through. This is really cool!
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u/TesticularTentacles Jun 21 '23
That.... is simply amazing. I can't imagine the hours required, but that should be in a museum for others to see.
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u/Piemaster113 Jun 21 '23
This is honestly amazing, and probably one of the koolest things I've seen today, the following is just for comedic purposes: you could have made 4 real babies in less time.
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u/sincethenes Jun 21 '23
Right sub for sure, but what’s the point? Not in a “ this is pointless” way, but if color separation has already existed forever, why make it more complicated if no one sees the seps? Is there a practical application for this?
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u/CremCram Jun 21 '23
I love the patterns, there’s a complexity and simplicity to the three plates. It’s stunning and satisfying to watch them intermingle into and form a human child. Beautiful work!
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u/FartReviewer Jun 26 '23
Bro your awesome art is already being stolen and reposted on instagram without credit
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u/peekaboo_itsyou Jun 21 '23
Holy crap you’re so talented! You should post this in an art subreddit
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u/Civilized_Waffle Jun 21 '23
This is very impressive but can someone explain to me why the hands in the video seem off.
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Jun 21 '23
You just took art to another level. I had no idea that something like this even existed! Keep up with the good work!!
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u/Captain_Sacktap Jun 21 '23
Like this specific piece of art took you 4 years, or it took you 4 years to perfect the technique? Either way, this is both super impressive and gorgeous, you should feel really proud of your work!
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u/Mindeufair Jun 21 '23
This is beautiful! Congratulations for this piece of art!
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u/TrekTess Jun 21 '23
How do you even come up with something like this? It's insanely good!
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u/CloHay Jun 21 '23
Was this commissioned or a passion project? The creation of the mandalas, materials, timeline, creative process….would love to hear about all of these things.
Truly beautiful stuff. I don’t know what the context is or your intent, but I think that it does a wonderful job at conveying the undeniable patterns and number systems that the natural world, humans, and technology all abide by.
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u/pvrellis Jun 21 '23
Thank you so much for your overwhelming feedback.
I have been working on "new media" arts for the last 15 years. This was my most-demanding project ever. And, yes, it was a passion project. However, it was so exhausting I have quitted it a couple of times...
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u/30625 Jun 21 '23
Just Beautiful! Would you mind sharing the process behind? How is it done? It looks amazing!!!
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u/IllustriousAd5936 Jun 21 '23
I’ll be the mean guy and say I could’ve taken that picture in a second with my phone.
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u/Funkyduck8 Jun 21 '23
4 years spent to absolutely blow my mind with the level of intricacy and talent. Thanks for creating and sharing!
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u/iTbTkTcommittee Jun 21 '23
Oh wow, that is just amazing. The mandalas as their own art, the final color matched photo, and the total disappearing of the mandalas. Amazing all around. What great art!
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u/bleucrayons Jun 21 '23
This so so amazing! It’s instantly making me want something like this of my own kids even! Something incredibly philosophical about it
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u/Chewzer Jun 21 '23
This makes me think of Resident Evil and Silent Hill style puzzles, once you've collected all 3 panels you have to align and rotate them to form the final picture to open a lock and progress. So damn cool!
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u/aquamanjosh Jun 21 '23
Ok well I’m not an art guy and I love this, how’d you do this , like what’s the process? Your like sponge bob drawing a circle bruh.
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u/KioLaFek Jun 21 '23
Is it at al feasible to buy a set? I wish to stare at this for hours and move them around during my next acid trip
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u/Exevioth Jun 21 '23
Is that a personal photo you worked off of or just creative imagination?
I’m sure you obviously had to take some liberties with the fractals but you obviously had an end game in mind from the start is the only reason I ask.
Aside from that I’m sure you’ve heard it more than a fair amount but your work on this is outstanding, and it reminds me of Alex Grey.
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u/JimmyPassthe_butter Jun 21 '23
So like this is awesome!! And genuine question.. hiw did you do that? Is it hand painted or computer rendered? It fits sooo well
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u/Jazzlike-Trick-8285 Jun 21 '23
Is this a new type of art? There's something very fascinating about it
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u/Lumpy-Cow-2125 Jun 21 '23
The creativity and imagination to do this is far beyond anything I'm capable of. Fantastic work!
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u/wrathfuldeities Jun 21 '23
An interesting question is to what extent this correlates with the physical structure of reality. The world we see after all is what? The sum of electromagnetic interference patterns? Does that mean that we could divide it into sheaths of basic geometrical layers? Or conversely, could this type of modeling be useful in visual simulations? (Due to computational efficiency or some other factor) I suspect this is treading over worn terrain here but as a non-specialist in these areas I don't know.
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u/dianaprince76 Jun 21 '23
Wow! I have never seen anything like that! Beautiful work and just… wow!