nVeil was first designed and built by this team at Storek Studio as an optical video display filter, now developed as Mac-based veil maker and image processor apps. It was inspired by seeing the blurred glow from a television, seen at long distance, displaying (unintended) ab-stract color and motion, a new visual resource to be explored!
It is the original image processor that combines line art, the veil:
with any image:
harmonizes color to produce variations of this:
The source image provides the color and motion (with video). The core feature of nVeil, the veil, comes from a vector graphic (SVG), a line-drawing composed of closed cells which filter the image in real time. Select one from the library of 100 veils, or easily create your own with a vector graphic editor, such as Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape or CorelDraw .
Features
• Color-Add (assign fixed colors to selected cells, vary the transparency)
• Music mystery synch (most music and most nVeiled video appear synched: proximal events)
• Harmonized palette (source image adjusted for color harmony)
• Inverse Color (reverse source colors in selected cells)
• Pass-through (source shows unVeiled in selected cells)
• Variable video play speeds
• Cell Border Rendering (visible, adjustable width paths)
• Border Rendering Only (all cell interiors render black)
• Frame accumulation (slows, smooths video action)
• Live Video (HD web cam or iSight camera as the image source)
• Export video or stills (tiff, jpg or png)
(see nV SETTINGS for some examples)
nVeil contains two separate applications: nVmaker, which creates new veils from vector line drawings which are stored in the LIBRARY folder, and nVplayer which applies the veil to your imagery. It includes the controls to modify the rendered image, and exports the results. The User Manual explains the operation, use of thefeatures, visual effects controls and the creation of new veils.
nVeil runs on G4, G5, and Intel Macs with OpenGL support on OSX Lion and above.
Working in the San Francisco Bay Area, Storek Studio is an architectural design firm
working also in software development, product design and visual arts; as Storek & Storek
/ Architecture / San Francisco we designed and built the first Mac facility for Apple and
redesigned the Apple II facility, back when) ... ...and we hold the record for Best-in-Show in San Francisco's sandcastle com-petition on the beach, between architecture firms.
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