Optics

Painterly

Each pixel takes the calmest quarter of its neighbourhood: flat strokes, hard edges.

Painterly: a optics effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Painterly in the studio

Controls

radius
Size of the brush stroke: the width of the flat patch left in place of texture
passes
Repeating is what turns smoothing into painting: areas grow with each pass
mix
One is pure paint, zero the original frame. Half lets the photograph show through

Starting points

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