{"id":5135,"date":"2017-02-11T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T11:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2017-02-11T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T11:29:08","slug":"more-work-with-hexagons-in-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5135","title":{"rendered":"More work with hexagons in images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried out some more ideas with hexagons &#8211; this is the start image:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v1-c-w-600x436.jpg\" alt=\"start image\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v1-c-w-600x436.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v1-c-w-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v1-c-w-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v1-c-w-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v1-c-w-1200x871.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v1-c-w.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a dahlia flower in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>I then wrote a program, similar to that used in the previous post, to create a random pattern of hexagon segments &#8211; there were 3 sizes in 3 transparencies. Blending these with the original gives me this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v1-c-w-600x436.jpg\" alt=\"random hexagons blended with original\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v1-c-w-600x436.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v1-c-w-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v1-c-w-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v1-c-w-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v1-c-w-1200x871.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v1-c-w.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To make the hexagons stand out, I toned down the colours in the base image. Not too bad but not quite as I hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Using this hexelated (?) image\u00a0 as the base from the previous post:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v2-4hex-segments-with-adjustments-c-w1-600x436.jpg\" alt=\"1st composite version\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v2-4hex-segments-with-adjustments-c-w1-600x436.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v2-4hex-segments-with-adjustments-c-w1-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v2-4hex-segments-with-adjustments-c-w1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v2-4hex-segments-with-adjustments-c-w1-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v2-4hex-segments-with-adjustments-c-w1-1200x871.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1for-40pxblackborder-v2-4hex-segments-with-adjustments-c-w1.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I blended in the random hexagons to get:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v2-c-w-600x436.jpg\" alt=\"blended with random hexagons\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v2-c-w-600x436.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v2-c-w-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v2-c-w-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v2-c-w-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v2-c-w-1200x871.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/E12_3071cr2p1-v4-hex-composite-v2-c-w.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This breaks up the regularity of the hexagons in the base image. I feel this has potential &#8211; I will try this with different base images to see what happens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried out some more ideas with hexagons &#8211; this is the start image: Just a dahlia flower in the garden. I then wrote a program, similar to that used in the previous post, to create a random pattern of hexagon segments &#8211; there were 3 sizes in 3 transparencies. Blending these with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More work with hexagons in images&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}