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MSG Evolve Grid Commands
There are a number of different active link user commands you can access in the Help Browser that can be used to control directed evolution of MSG presets in the Evolution Editor palette. If you have...
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Simple MSG Zoom Preset Example
Someone asked about how to create a PASeq action step that could zoom the canvas in or out in a controlled fashion. You could of course use the Scale Uniform Interactive Warp to do this. Another...
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MSG Live Source Brush
MSG Live is a new Source option in the paint synthesizer’s Brush Source control panel. This source brush option uses the current MSG preset to generate a source brush image buffer on the fly when...
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Recursive IO Connections in MSG Presets
Wikipedia includes the following as an explanation for recursion. ”In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.” But we’re going to try and explain it here anyway. Recursive...
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Abstracting a Source Image Using MSG
MSG (modular synthesized graphics) is Studio Artist’s modular image processing architecture. 500 different image processing modules (called processors) are available within MSG and can be combined...
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Introduction to MSG
MSG stands for modular synthesized graphics. MSG is a modular image processing architecture that allows you to build essentially an infinite number of different image or video processing effects or...
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Coloring MSG Attractors
The example above shows the output of a MSG preset that consists of 3 different MSG chaotic attractor processors composited together into a single colorized image. This post will discuss different...
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Evolving and Editing MSG Presets
Directed evolution is a powerful technique that can be used to create an infinite variety of new abstract procedural art images or image and video processing effects. The Evolution Editor palette...
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Using MSG to Extend the Paint Synthesizer
MSG presets can be used to customize and extend the capabilities of the paint synthesizer in many different ways. MSG stands for modular synthesized graphics and is Studio Artist’s modular image...
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Procedural vs Keyframe MSG Animation
MSG presets can be used to create abstract imagery or image and video processing effects. The individual editable parameters associated with MSG presets can be modulated over time to build dynamic...
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