art nouveau study six, part one of four

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Continuing with Mucha, but now looking at the impact of scaling the styles. Here we see 'coffee beans two' at 80%. The lines in this appear to have come through strongly, although perhaps there are more 'unrealistic' features. There is also a large degree of smearing. Likewise, on the subjects hips and breasts, the style is not particularly 'strong'. There appears to be a relationship between how well the style conveys and the degree of noise in an image. This particular subject was a very clean reprint of a Mucha original. Perhaps adding some Gaussian noise would give the style a bit of something to grab onto and reduce smearing? Also, what is the relationship between smearing and style scaling?