Maya

Published: December 29, 2025

I have been playing with Maya again over the last 6 months, and have really taken a liking to working with bifrost and Arnold. Some pretty amazing stuff. As a side project I even created a still image, had it printed, and framed it. It was a fun little project to do.

Work

Here is the final version:

Here are some other images I created out of the bifrost graph:

I wrote a tiny Python script to do some of the post processing work:

from PIL import Image, ImageEnhance
import os

# Paths to your original images
file_paths = [
    "/mnt/g/Art/fire.jpg",
    "/mnt/g/Art/fire2.jpg",
    "/mnt/g/Art/fire3.jpg",
    "/mnt/g/Art/fire4.jpg"
]

def enhance_detail(image_path):
    image = Image.open(image_path).convert("RGB")

    # Basic Enhancements
    image = ImageEnhance.Contrast(image).enhance(2.0)   # Boost contrast
    image = ImageEnhance.Brightness(image).enhance(0.9) # Slightly deeper shadows
    image = ImageEnhance.Sharpness(image).enhance(3.0)  # Sharpen for more detail

    return image

# Apply the effect and save output
output_paths = []
for i, path in enumerate(file_paths):
    final = enhance_detail(path)
    output_path = f"/mnt/g/Art/enhanced_detail_fire{i+1}.jpg"
    final.save(output_path)
    output_paths.append(output_path)

# Print output paths
print("Detail-enhanced images saved at:")
for p in output_paths:
    print(p)

Some more:

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