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DUEL / Graphic collisions

Sea of ink.

A breaking wave collides with a lacework of cut flowers.

Erase an influence in Edit to let the two structures compete again.

Choose the included images or your own inside the studio. Applying keeps your current work as a local copy.

A breaking wave collides with a lacework of cut flowers.

The transformation

From source to study.

The result below is an actual studio export with this recipe. The source image is part of the result; changing it creates a different work.

Original A for Sea of ink
Original A
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) · Katsushika Hokusai
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Original B for Sea of ink
Original B
Chrysanthemums · Japan
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A breaking wave collides with a lacework of cut flowers.
Finished study
DUEL + the settings below.
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The recipe

Structure first. Finish second.

DUEL structure

  • Edge competition · Balance 5% · Spread 35%
  • Photo A: 1.00× zoom, crop 50% across / 50% down
  • Photo B: 1.00× zoom, crop 50% across / 50% down
  • 2 recorded local ownership marks

Compose passes, in order

Your first change

Erase an influence in Edit to let the two structures compete again.

Raster stills and short animations. DUEL does not produce editable vector layers.

Develop this into a finished work.

A directed two-image collage

A composed collage PNG, an optional short motion file and a project preserving both sources and their framing.

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From collision to printed poster

A collage PNG, TRACE print PNG and editable SVG, plus one project retaining both stages and original source images.

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