Hot on the heels of Nodality 1.6, today sees the release of version 1.7 which is a fairly major release with lots of new functionality, user interface improvements and more work on performance.
The first new feature is the introduction of Position Nodes.
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Position Nodes allow the setting of the centre of effects such as distortions and tile effects. Their position can be set in two ways: either through moving the crosshair control in the detail panel or by setting numeric inputs into their 'x' and 'y' inputs. The input values range between -1 and 1, so 0, 0 is centre, -1, -1 is top left and 1, 1 is bottom right.
When a Position Node has an input node, the crosshair controlled is disabled in that direction. I've updated all the distortion, tile effect and halftone filters along with pixellate and radial gradient filters. to accept a position input.
The next big new feature is the introduction of an Image Filter Category Callout.
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Previous versions of Nodality used a rather fiddly spinner control to select image filter categories. As the number of categories has increased, this has become increasingly tricky to use, so the callout displays all the categories, in alphabetical order, and makes selection a lot quicker and simpler.
Nodality now ships with a total of 86 image filters. New in version 1.7 are eight new blend filters including colour burn, colour dodge, overlay and screen blends:
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There are also two new distortion filters, hole and pinch, and a triangle kaleidoscope tile effect:
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As with the last few releases, more work has gone into performance with the code for dragging nodes improved even more, making node repositioning even smoother and more responsive.
To celebrate the release of version 1.7, here's another cat based Nodality project. This one uses a new hole filter to distort a photograph of lots of flowers and a constant color. The latter is used as a mask in a mask blend filter to composite together the flows and a transformed cat photograph:
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...and here's the final output....
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Nodality is written in Apache Flex and uses the Adobe AIR runtime. It is free of charge and is available for iPads at the App Store here:
