This effect was generated in Filter Forge, a Photoshop plugin that allows you to create your own filters.
This filter takes an original image and stretches, warps, distorts and rotates it to fit
on the shapes made by the user controlled kaleidoscope tiles.
Each tile has a kaleidoscope effect on it to make it more of an interesting look...
This filter is based on an idea by jffe
Snippets used
Flex Tiling by Quasimondo
Rotate 90° by Quasimondo
Spherify by byRo
Circular Angle Gradient by uberzev
How To:
Divisions–Amou
Kai Shape–Kaleidos
Offset H and V–Moves the original image for different color effects..
Shape Size–Sizes the original image for different shapes..
Shape Image Ver and Hor–for more shaping of the original image..
Rotation–Rotat
Rotate Distort A and B–Rotates the image while distorting it..
Distort Degree–Use this in conjunction with the rotate distort to
choose the angle of the distortion..
Change Middle–Check this to change the middle to a different look..
kaleidoscope, tiles, distort, swirl, pattern