Creating blood spatter.
For the cover of a book of detective fiction I want to create an irregular figure like a blood stain or spatter. Can I do this in Inkscape? (Using real blood and a camera was considered but rejected because of lack of a donor :)
On Apr 29, 2007, at 6:23 PM, John R. Culleton wrote:
For the cover of a book of detective fiction I want to create an irregular figure like a blood stain or spatter. Can I do this in Inkscape? (Using real blood and a camera was considered but rejected because of lack of a donor :)
Use the real blood plan, but chocolate syrup instead of real blood.
On 4/29/07, John R. Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
For the cover of a book of detective fiction I want to create an irregular figure like a blood stain or spatter. Can I do this in Inkscape? (Using real blood and a camera was considered but rejected because of lack of a donor :)
There are several fonts of blood splatter - check DaFont or another good quality free font site. These have the advantage of already being vector format, and very easy to convert to pure SVG.
There's two on DaFont: http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=rhesus
You can get interesting stain/droplet effects with Inkscape's "Star" tool - turn the number of points up very high and play with the other Star tool settings. If you can get the SVG of the Inkscape 0.43 "About" screen, that's got great 'stains' on it, made with the Star tool.
0.43's About screen answered a nagging question for me: "Why the heck is this 'Star' tool one of the default tools? Is a star really useful as a basic shape?" (the answer is yes, obviously!)
There are also a number of 'splatter' GIMP brushsets, but of course they're not vector based.
If you do come up with a good set of SVG "splatters", donate them to the Open Clipart Library, so the rest of us can use them too! "Grunge" or splatter brushsets are incredibly popular for Photoshop & the GIMP - a set of splattery/grungy SVG cliparts would be a popular download, I'm sure.
Brian wirelizard.ca
On Monday 30 April 2007 00:38, Brian Burger wrote:
On 4/29/07, John R. Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
For the cover of a book of detective fiction I want to create an irregular figure like a blood stain or spatter. Can I do this in Inkscape? (Using real blood and a camera was considered but rejected because of lack of a donor :)
There are several fonts of blood splatter - check DaFont or another good quality free font site. These have the advantage of already being vector format, and very easy to convert to pure SVG.
There's two on DaFont: http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=rhesus
You can get interesting stain/droplet effects with Inkscape's "Star" tool - turn the number of points up very high and play with the other Star tool settings. If you can get the SVG of the Inkscape 0.43 "About" screen, that's got great 'stains' on it, made with the Star tool.
0.43's About screen answered a nagging question for me: "Why the heck is this 'Star' tool one of the default tools? Is a star really useful as a basic shape?" (the answer is yes, obviously!)
There are also a number of 'splatter' GIMP brushsets, but of course they're not vector based.
If you do come up with a good set of SVG "splatters", donate them to the Open Clipart Library, so the rest of us can use them too! "Grunge" or splatter brushsets are incredibly popular for Photoshop & the GIMP - a set of splattery/grungy SVG cliparts would be a popular download, I'm sure.
Brian wirelizard.ca
I have already downloaded one of the free fonts you suggested. I will also fool with the star tool. Thanks for a useful reply.
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I sometimes make splotches using Add Nodes + Jitter Nodes + Union + Simplify. (Union detaches the self intersected parts of the path.) Seen here with some added Whirl.
http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/whirl3.png
Aaron Spike
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, John R. Culleton wrote:
For the cover of a book of detective fiction I want to create an irregular figure like a blood stain or spatter. Can I do this in Inkscape? (Using real blood and a camera was considered but rejected because of lack of a donor :)
don't tell anyone.... ;-)
it was me
that placed the lid loosely atop the Tomato Sauce bottle
(i was planning on having more when my next piece of eggy bread arrived)
when Brother came
Large, Robust, Hungry
and, as usual, Vigorously Shook the bottle
mum's fresh yellow painted kitchen looked like it had hosted a chainsaw massacre...
it was only when, years later, we moved house, that we found the last splatter that had arched up and over and against the wall behind the dresser...
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You might try the fractal thing on a path to sort of randomize it, then maybe simplify it again to soften things up a bit.
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