IMAGE PROCESSING 2011
- Welcome to the Image Processing Challenge -
This time the challenge is to create something demo-ish and enhance it with image processing, so blow the dust of your keyboard and crack open your favourite IDE!
This is another totally open theme and it's something that should be good for all programing languages and levels of ability! There are dozens and dozens, if not thousands of different techniques that you can use to alter an image to make it look cool when you render it, so there's bound to be at least one that fits your particular style!
To participate in this challenge, you need to choose one or more image processing effects and create an effect that is enhanced by them! In reality most things look better with image processing and to name a few of the effects that are out there, you could try;
Motion Blurr, Edge Detection,Blurr, Depth Of Field, Photo-Negative, Soft Focus, Lighting effects, Supersampling, Fisheye Lense - You only need to look through the list of photoshop filters for inspiration!
The challenge of course is to choose some effects and decide what type of imagary would suit them the best, then code your effect and make it look awesome.
You are of course at liberty to invent your own unique render effects, it's wide open.
In your entry though - please provide a brief description of what effects you've used and how they modify the original demo.
Here are a few examples of image processing effects in action:
Motion Blur + Ambient Occlusion:
"Magnus" by Youth Uprising;
[youtube]M7HpUUuUslE[/youtube]
Edge Detection using Sobel Filter:
[youtube]-t7GX07sq7U[/youtube]
Depth of Field applied to a 3D fractal:
[youtube]GON_tie5MVc[/youtube]
Supersampling:
[youtube]BFmdpbNykZo[/youtube]
Negative visual feedback and colour filters;
[youtube]g9YiTFYxf14[/youtube]
Feel free to take a 2D or 3D approach to this challenge and include as many image processing tricks as you like (as long as there's at least one!).
Here are the rules. - Your Demo must contain at least one image processing effect (an effect that is applied to your demo to change it's appearence).
- You can use any platform that is compatible with Windows 7, windows XP & Vista.
- You may write something for web browsers as long as it works in IE8 or Chrome or FF4 (or all!)
- If you use flash, please provide a link where people can see your demo. If you are placed in the top 3 your .swf will be added to the site as a .zip file You should attach the .swf in a zip file to your post.
- Wild entries are allowed and you may use any home computer / console. Anything that is not windows based should be entered as a Wild. Therefore you should upload it to youtube and post the video as your entry. It's cool to post the binaries as well.
- Procedural graphics entries are allowed as long as it is one single file <16kb no animations allowed, file must not permanently write on hard drive.
- Please write something new for the challenge, no previously released stuff.
- Do not use ripped routines. (dlls, libs, fmod, sdl, frameworks etc are fine but say what you used please!).
- Entries to be posted in this forum please with the title [IMAGE PROCESSING] entry name.
- Entries may be posted between NOW and Midnight of [Saturday 30th July 2011] - UK GMT
- The winner [S?] will be decided by a poll of forum users
- If 1st, 2nd or 3rd places are tied there will be a vote-off to decide the winner.
- Late entries absolutely will not be counted for voting, even if one second over the deadline.
- Please PM any correspondence regarding rules to me, don't discuss them here such posts will be removed and not answered.
- Please include a screenshot of your entry in your post.
- Please only post finished work, if you update your entry the final one will be voted on.
- After the submission deadline You may NOT post ANY further attachments to final or other versions of your entry ANYWHERE on this forum until voting has closed.
- You may post a video of the entry along with the binaries (useful if you use shaders or linux etc). In fact it is advisable that you do this if possible, especially if you use tecnology that not everyone possesses.
- Prize money is by Paypal only. No other forms will be discussed.
- Maximum of two entries per person.
- As well as appearing in DBF's showcase, your entry may be video captured and placed on DBF's youtube channel.
Here are the prizes! Good Luck!
