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I was playing some blocks I found in the art room at school, and I had fun for a while (I'm easily amused). Soo .. I started to do the same in Photoshop.

I started off with me ol' cube:
ze cube

Purplish, isometric with a yummy triangular design on it. I split up the colors into individual vector masks which make resizing a hell of a lot more reasonable (quality wise), soo each cube comes out to around 6 vector masks.

169 layer sets, or 1014 vector masks later .. I got me a butterfly (colors were changed to show the individual wings and such).
ze butterfly

I started to run out of resources on the first wing (not good), so I had to split up the original PSD file into left wing, right wing, body and antennae. I'm still coming up for a good use of it, but that might not happen until I get me some more RAM (I'm working with 256MB, which is insane). I intended to be able to change the individual colors of the blocks through the vector masks, but just moving them around is slow enough so it's hard to work on it.

So does it just have 1 wing? Looks like it.

Anyway, I like it, very unique idea and you executed it well :D

Sweet!
I know exactly what you mean when there isn't enough RAM! :P
I have had the same problem and I have the same thing, having to work with different parts of an image to get photoshop to work at some speed.

Well back to the image,
I really like the idea...it's something new and fresh and I can't wait to see the final result!
Maybe you started a new trend with this! :P

I did something very similiar last year but I made a map of the united states, with a 3mb image... and my illustrator file saved at a whopping 1.3gigs. yeah thats right. Only took 30 minutes to save, and I didnt even end up using that concept for the poster. heh.

Ok about your butterfly, it did take me a while to make out the actual shape of the butterfly, but once I got it, it looks pretty well done.

u should add some shapes , it will realy help people knowing the real shape of the image , am with redeye in this

sorry i meant shades **

hmm
looks time consuming, me dont reaaally like it to be honest mate, but i can see where you're coming from on the originality scale, bet it was a good personal goal to see a butterfly there after all that time. i love getting really into something like that and just knowing yourself how much work went into it.
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Hmm...

Have you thought about working in Grayscale, then converting back to RGB for final colorising?

It might help in speeding up the process due to your dearth of RAM.

Just a thought...

Really nice job man. I would just make the back wing a little darker, so that you can tell the wings apart. I had a hard time seeing the back wing, but when you walk far from the computer, it's easy to see. I think some shadow will help fix that.

it took me almost ages to get the shape .. im tired - but i still think it's too "weird" ... i kind of like the idea, and it's well executed, but it sure ain't my style.

still compliments on the time spent ;)