Jelly beans art making with a Filter Forge filter would be possible?

Hello, I have just seen this article that can be seen here with stunning and awesome artworks made with Jelly Beans !!!



I also have just found this video of Youtube made ALL with Jelly beans and then a detailed explanation on how it was done as you can see here in this link

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/11/03/s...lly-beans/

This deserves really a high prize and reward for patience and time spent on making this works of art (and also the money spent on buying all those thousands of jelly beans )

But what I did not know is that there are really LOTS of artworks made with Jelly Beans !!!! as you can see in this link to Google images search for "jelly beans art"

And in this link to other Jelly beans art article you will find higher resolution images shown to see better the tiny jelly beans.

And here a link to a collection of many of those jelly art made with thousands of Jelly Beans. Please, see them here

I would never ever be able to make this kind of art with jelly beans as I do not have the patience and time for this, and will not spend the money on those thousands beans.

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WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO MAKE A FILTER IN FILTER FORGE THAT COULD CONVERT A PHOTO INTO A JELLY BEAN ART IMAGE ?

After all this I wonder if there could be some way to cheat and be able to use Filter Forge (FF) to make this kind of jelly bean art WITHOUT having to do it manually, I mean to use a photo and get FF to do all the hard work and convert all the details and colors to jelly beans.

I really think that probably will be very difficult to do, because you must take account for all the shapes and orientation of the shapes, colors and hues of the original photo.

One possible solution is to SIMPLIFY all the shapes and colors of the photo and leave the most important outlines and colors with shades of hues.

And also is very difficult because of the reflective and soft specular nature of the jelly bean surface.

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BUT THERE IS ALREADY A JELLY BEAN ART MAKER !!! BUT IS BADLY DONE

Who would be interested in making a jelly bean art maker ?

Well, one very big jelly bean factory that produces lots of different jelly beans

Here is the link to the Jelly Beans Art Maker

BUT this one is really NOT very good, because it has taken the VERY EASY way to make a jelly bean artwork, and ONLY use all straight jelly beans and only in one direction, and ONLY changes the colors of the jelly beans according to the photos color, hue and shades.

This jelly bean maker DOES NOT FOLLOW or is similar to the artworks shown here that have many different shapes, curves and lines and are not all straight at all.

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FILTER FORGE PROBABLY COULD DO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS

Instead of making ALL the beans straight and all inline, perhaps and probably it could be done a filter that rotates the jelly beans according to the shapes of the outlines of the photo and fill the photo will multiple direction beans.

The best example I can find of this where you can see all the different directions of the jelly beans (instead of all the straight and rigid from the Jelly bean art maker) is this picture here shown below



And when lloking at what has been possible to make with the awesome Van Gogh´s Flow filter I think that it could really be possible to make that the jelly beans to follows the paths and shapes of photos as is done in this filter.

I have seen this already done FF filter already done called The Red Pill by natrix natrix


Well this is just a texture maker of pills, and is not colorful jelly beans and are FF generated.

Here's one of Van Gogh's stary night, though, doesn't quite work as the filter makes up it's own spirals that conflict with the ones already in the picture :S

Good job mongoose, this is very close to the original!
One thing that you may wanna try is making the beans a bit smaller and more reflective, so the surface looks more like the original.
A more important thing is to get the color to be more vibrant... The colors in the filter look a bit smoky.

Just tried a new tweak, used lil trick with a blend and extract RGB to find areas with low saturation an force them all the way to white or black to stop the funny little bits of cyan and magenta popping up.. may cause problems on some images but worked well on the lifesaver...

Here's a test of the beans with restricted colour palette vs all colours...

Here's bean elvis again in the new palette...

I dare somebody to just use only the original jelly bean colors to produce the ultimate jelly bean filter.

VIDEO ART MAKING WITH JELLY BEANS

288.000 Jellybeans to make this music video that all the backgrounds are animated images with jelly beans !!!!

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Kina Grannis’ stop-motion video took 1,357 hours of work throughout 22 months. 288,000 jelly beans (all donated by the Jelly Belly company) were used to make 2,460 different frames which were put together into the sweetest, most impressive music video I have ever seen.

http://www.odditycentral.com/videos/s...beans.html

Amazing how much patience they should have to make this video

Here is the video ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0DuxFAT0

Here is the whole story on HOW was done that is interesting too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIH4MJAC2Tg

The elvis is a bit of a rubbish image to be using really, as I lost a lot of detail debeaning him from the beany original.

Here's the filter forge fishy showing more detail.

Well, I realised it's actually pretty much done, not much else to do on it, just got to try it out some more and probably submit it by monday.

Just rendered a big picture.. maximum number of beans I let the slider go up to...

WOW!!! If was already surprised looking at your examples, now that I have made my OWN tests and see the REAL thing I am MUCH MORE impressed and stunned !!!

You have a made really great and excellent work !! and the Jelly beans look VERY REALISTIC in my opinion !!

oohh great beanflow in that pic Spaceray, I still don't understand Darrell's van gogh flow script but it sure does a great job.


I'm amused by the lil norton pop up, hehe, filter forge using the CPU too intensively? who'd a thought it?

The Jelly Bean White tiger !!! Great !!!

Nice! I need more pics to try this on. All the pics I have are all dark and industrial, lol, no good bean worthy pics.

There's one downside to this filter though....

It's making me really hungry for some jelly beans.

Wow.
I mean... WOW!
Mongoose,you truely are a king! This is so awesome!!!

SpaceRay, as usual, great examples that show just how wonderfull this filter is.

I may not speak spanish, but I can figure out what "Uso intensivo de CPU por FilterForge" means
And now it's official, even Norton thinks FF chewes on CPUs like... Jelly beans

And here one more (also from the above website) that shows well what powerful this filter can be.

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Morgantao wrote: SpaceRay, as usual, great examples that show just how wonderfull this filter is.

Thanks , I try to do it the best I can to help you see examples of what could be done.

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Morgantao wrote: I may not speak spanish, but I can figure out what "Uso intensivo de CPU por FilterForge" means And now it's official, even Norton thinks FF chewes on CPUs like... Jelly beans

YES as you probably guess already it means "CPU Intensive use by Filter Forge"

Well really is the CPU is the only thing that Filter Forge can get benefit and work very well from a computer (at least in the Professional version that has multicore support) as any of the other parts of the computer are not supported by FF.

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Morgantao wrote: That's not true, SpaceRay. Filterforge fully supports a mouse AND keyboard too. BTW, how much RAM does your mouse have? And how many processors in your keyboard?

very good Sorry that I did not specify more, I mean INSIDE the computer box

If you count the things OUTSIDE, you forgot to mention that it also supports the monitor

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Morgantao wrote: There's no "Jelly Belly" logo on them

YES, this a great error and very BAD from Mongoose King

BUT I know why he did not include it, because he has yet not received the authorization from the Jelly Belly Company to use their logo in each of the beans, as it has copyright

This is a really cool filter. Looks almost like the real thing. Good job Mongoose King.

Perhaps one good source is the Pop Art style solid colors found on some artworks that have also clear and defined borders and lines.

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Spaceray wrote: ALSO YOU CAN ADD LATER MORE COLOURS AND DEFINE MORE SOME OF THE BEANS INSIDE PHOTOSHOP

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Mongoose King wrote: Yes, a little bit of bean placement in photoshop after is probably the best way to get little details in. Setting the bean density to 1 gives you lots of spaced out beans you could cut and paste. I might add a beans on alpha option to give floating disembodied beans you could use for that.

Yes, your idea can be good, BUT this is NOT what I thought when I told that after you can add later more colors and define more some of the beans and correct some wrong colors.

My idea is NOT to add anymore beans, or move them, or cut them, JUST to change the colors of the ones already available with the "Replace color", "Hue saturation", "or Black & white" or some other similar tool

Here is one example I have got to show this, Here attached below is the original result made by the bean filter

If you want to see the REAL source of this photo to compare with the original, you can find it here in this link here

Search for the one with the title "Marilyn Monroe Paintings for Sale" (the number 5) and click on open image in a new tab and it will take you here

I could have colored the eyes to the original green as seen in the photo, but this is more work, and as this is just an example, I have leaved them black.

I found that reducing the amount of green in shadows and highlights on the original in photoshop helped. Playing with colour balance threw the background off, but that was fixed by using restrict low saturation.

Anyway, I added more options for the restricted colours, there's now a slide to pick the size of the palette, also, there is an option to preserve colours so they are still restricted in the number of colours, but can't vary wildly from the original. It is kind of bland compared to the wild colours of the usual restricted palette, but it's good to have the option...

Here's Marilyn with that setting on..