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The effect looks decent in the foreground of some pictures, particularly the wolf and the cat. It really exaggerates the depth of field in the background, thoug
by swiftcoder 2mo ago
The effect looks decent in the foreground of some pictures, particularly the wolf and the cat. It really exaggerates the depth of field in the background, though, and those areas feel like someone ran a posterise after a blur, rather than brush strokes. Might just be a side effect of the author's predilection for bokeh, I guess. The Tokyo shot looks good throughout.
- yogthos 2mo agoIt was more of a stylistic choice on my part. I could add more layers to flesh out background details. And it's Hong Kong actually. :)
- swiftcoder 2mo agoI think my main issue with it is that you don't end up with the impression of brush strokes on those areas - in a painting even big flat areas of colour tend to have clear evidence of brush strokes
- vanderZwan 2mo agoThat's because Gaussian splats are ellipses without any texture of their own (more or less), missing any detail that an actual brush stroke would have. Because the ellipses are so elongated in the finer details it feels like layered brush-strokes, but in the coarse background the "flatness" of the splats dominates. Compare to my stippling notebook[0], an even more simplified image filter (it's "just" tiled circles) with a similar "problem". Turn on the fake vignetting or tilt-shifting, and really turn it up for a similar effect. If the goal is to create a paintlery illusion then there are undoubtedly ways to mitigate this lack of texture though. [0] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-generator https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-...