{"id":12395,"date":"2007-06-16T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/06\/photoshopmatlabart.html"},"modified":"2007-06-16T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T17:28:06","slug":"photoshopmatlabart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/photoshopmatlabart\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop+Matlab=Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sleeper features making its debut in Photoshop CS3 Extended is its ability to interface with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/products\/pfo\/\">MATLAB<\/a>, the number-crunching toolkit from Mathworks.&#160; The capability was added for developers &amp; technical users, but now it&#8217;s been turned to art.&#160; Dr. Woohoo (aka Drew Trujillo) has created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthemod.com\/bps\/?p=125\">Color Combinatorics<\/a>, integrating the two apps in pursuit of beautiful color harmonies.&#160; He writes, <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For me, it simply means that we can now \u2018drive\u2019 Photoshop by writing code in MATLAB while taking advantage of a *very* powerful engine with a superior supporting set of libraries (called ToolBoxes). Think of MATLAB as giving you the ability to write your own plug-ins for Photoshop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can check out a finished piece (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/drwoohoo\/469584048\/\">9,261 sets of 3 colors<\/a>) on Flickr, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/drwoohoo\/sets\/72157600070157635\/\">other interesting pieces<\/a>.&#160; Drew has written up a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthemod.com\/bps\/?p=136\">pile of notes<\/a> on integrating Photoshop &amp; MATLAB, so stop by his site to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the world of interesting generative graphics: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drew&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthemod.com\/\">In The Mod<\/a> project analyzes the works of famous painters, and it now lets you download color swatches in the Adobe Swatch Exchange format (compatible with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dexigner.com\/graphic\/news-g11146.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Robert Hodgin and the Barbarian Group, creators of the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flight404.com\/_videos\/magnetosphere\/index.html\">Magnetosphere<\/a>, have turned it into a <a href=\"http:\/\/software.barbariangroup.com\/magnetosphere\/\">visualizer for iTunes<\/a>.&#160; It&#8217;s freely downloadable from their site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/portfolio.jigobite.com\/capture#o\">Leon Hong<\/a> has made some groovy bits using Processing. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sleeper features making its debut in Photoshop CS3 Extended is its ability to interface with MATLAB, the number-crunching toolkit from Mathworks.&#160; The capability was added for developers &amp; technical users, but now it&#8217;s been turned to art.&#160; Dr. Woohoo (aka Drew Trujillo) has created Color Combinatorics, integrating the two apps in pursuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}