Boustrophedon

Literally meaning "as the ox ploughs,"  boustrophedon describes an ancient form of writing in rows from left to right and then right to left, like the course of successive furrows in a field.  I find myself saving Convolver Dots this way, like the set of nine variations I have shown here in "Boustrophedon".

First, I created a beautifully textured surface using KPT Texture Explorer 2.1 in Photoshop, and then altered the properties of the image using Convolver's wonderful Explore mode.  After a bit of fine tuning in Convolver's Design and then Tweak modes, I saved the RGB image as a PICT file, and then converted the same image to grayscale, which I saved as a separate PICT file.  

I then launched Bryce and created a terrain which I merged fully with the grayscale PICT in the Terrain Editor.  Using the Materials Editor, I mapped a single frequency of the color PICT image onto the extruded terrain.  A nice Ground and a little Sky & Fog modifications, and the Bryce image was ready to render.

After opening the finished Bryce PICT file into Photoshop, I used a feathered selection rectangle to divide the image into nine equal sections.  As I explored, designed and tweaked in Convolver, each iteration I liked I saved as a dot, boustrophedon-style, starting with a click on the upper left dot, then two more clicks to the right, then down and to the left, then down and to the right - for nine way cool variations, which I saved as a Dots File and then applied sequentially to the nine selections in the image.
 
Saint  O: )