RPM filtering — Robert Massman

Inspiration for creating my Chromium app came in 2015 after watching a few documentary films on the history of synthesizers. I began to explore the idea of how I could manipulate images by isolating their frequencies using Photoshop in much the same way an electronic musician explores and manipulates sound with a synthesizer and its modular components. I first tested my ideas by hand and then researched how I could use Photoshop's ExtendScript Toolkit to create a simple UI for making my image manipulation process more dynamic.

This is an image of the Adobe Photoshop UI I created using the ExtendScript Toolkit

While creating the ExtendScript Toolkit script for photoshop in 2017 I realized that the process I had been developing could be used to speed up tedious retouching of textures. For several fashion shoots that I was commissioned to work on I experimented with how my process could be used to isolate specific image frequencies and then minimize their visual appearance. Below are some of those results showing how specific frequencies can be isolated and the minimized.

In 2018 wanting a more dynamic and unique UI than Photoshop would allow, I began to implement the image processing techniques on a webpage using HTML and JavaScript. I quickly realized I needed to take advantage of the GPU. Having no knowledge of how to write code for the GPU I sought help. I was able to find a programmer in Poland who for a price converted my image processing code written for JavaScript and to code that could be run on the GPU. I then began to explore the artistic side of my image processing technique. See the images below.

Early image created by my webpage implementation

Early image created by my webpage implementation

In 2019 still wanting to push the commercial side of my image processing technique. I reengaged the programmer I had previously hired. I asked him to help me refine the image processing algorithm. To inspire him I provided a few research papers I'd found and highlighted the ideas within them that I felt would be beneficial ideas to pursue. After a year of work implementing my ideas, I reached the limits of my budget and paused the commercial aspect of the app. I've since been refining my program into a chromium app. Please see below.