Filter Forge Site http://www.filterforge.com/filters/author1344-page1.html en support@filterforge.com (C) 2013 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:16:41 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:16:41 -0400 http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2310.html uberzev2310Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/2310.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2310.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2310-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 22, 2007, Editor's Pick</small><p>This filter generates patterns inspired by the work of Sébastien Truchet. *If anyone would like to remix this to filter to produce different and/or more complex effects feel free to do so.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/468.html uberzev468Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/468.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/468.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/468-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>July 10, 2006, Editor's Pick</small><p>uberLENS 2.5 allows you to apply up to 10,000 lenses across your image. Simulate pond ripples, glass blocks, funhouse mirrors, fisheye lenses, and other optical phenomena. You have detailed control over every aspect including shading, distortion, shape, and number of lenses. The "View Map" feature makes it easy to see how things operate 'under the hood'.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2306.html uberzev2306Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/2306.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2306.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2306-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 13, 2012</small><p>For all your sphere packing needs.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1619.html uberzev1619Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1619.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1619.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1619-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 13, 2012</small><p>This snippet demonstrates an efficient method for outputing a curve as an image. *Special thanks to Lucato for the original idea and Quasimondo for the first working solution.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1616.html uberzev1616Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1616.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1616.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1616-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 13, 2012</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a blazingly fast emboss effect based on the derivative component. The quality is far superior to Photoshop’s built in filter.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7115.html uberzev7115Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/7115.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7115.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7115-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 13, 2012</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a blazing fast method for generating a random color value that is unaffected by the "Size, pixels" slider. The shades of gray are particularity useful as a map input for randomizing settings that do not have a random option such as offset or phase. Please feel free to use this snippet in your works. Just remember to give me a shout out.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7000.html uberzev7000Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/7000.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7000.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7000-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 13, 2012</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a fast and accurate arcsine curve. Please let me know if you find it useful.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1916.html uberzev1916Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1916.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1916.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1916-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 13, 2012</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a square tiling effect similar to Photoshop's pixelize. The difference here is that a single point sample is taken as instead of an average. *Props to matrix and ThreeDee for their contributions to the fraction control.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1617.html uberzev1617Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1617.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1617.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1617-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 13, 2012</small><p>The snippet demonstrates a clever alternative to the default offset component. Instead of entering X/Y values a more intuitive angle control is provided.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6999.html uberzev6999Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/6999.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6999.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6999-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 10, 2009</small><p>This filter transforms your image into a mosaic made up of solid colored tiles. The irregularity of these tiles can then be adjusted with a simple slider control. *Special thanks to uberzev for his brilliant "Voronoi Is My Homeboy" snippet which much of this filter is based upon.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6998.html uberzev6998Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/6998.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6998.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6998-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 10, 2009</small><p>This snippet approximates the Worley noise algorithm to produce lovely cellular noise. Drag the 'irregularity' slider to smoothly transition between order and chaos. Please feel free to use this snippet in your own designs, just remember to watch and root for the Los Angeles Lakers if you do so.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6991.html uberzev6991Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/6991.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6991.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6991-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 4, 2009</small><p>This filter tessellates your image into puzzle-shaped segments. For proper operation ensure that 'Seamless Tiling' is always enabled. Feel free to remix this filter as you like. Just remember to give me a shout out.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5650.html uberzev5650Mon, 2 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/5650.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5650.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5650-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 2, 2008</small><p>uberSTAR™ demonstrates a technique for generating regular star polygons.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5398.html uberzev5398Mon, 2 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/5398.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5398.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5398-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 2, 2008</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a technique for generating regular convex polygons. ==v2.0=== -Totally new and faster formula</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5425.html uberzev5425Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/5425.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5425.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5425-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>May 23, 2008</small><p>Shapify™ reshapes your world. *Special thanks to byRo for his brilliant Spherify & Un-Spherify techniques which lend much of their logic to this effect.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1762.html uberzev1762Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1762.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1762.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1762-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>May 23, 2008</small><p>This filter converts an image from rectangular to polar coordinates, and vice versa, according to the option selected. *Special thanks to byRo for his brilliant Spherify & Un-Spherify techniques which lend much of their logic to this effect.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1597.html uberzev1597Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1597.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1597.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1597-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>May 23, 2008</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a gradient that can be freely rotated as opposed to the default constraint of 90° angles. *Special thanks to byRo for "Rotate All Angles" which helped inspire this effect.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1570.html uberzev1570Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1570.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1570.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1570-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>May 23, 2008</small><p>This filter applies a radial blur to your image. You can smoothly transition between Spin, Spiral, and Zoom effects using the angle slider. *Special thanks to byRo for his brilliant Spherify & Un-Spherify techniques which lend much of their logic to this effect.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/671.html uberzev671Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/671.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/671.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/671-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>May 23, 2008</small><p>This snippet demonstrates an amazingly useful gradient technique. *Special thanks to byRo for "Rotate All Angles" which helped inspire this effect.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5484.html uberzev5484Mon, 5 May 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/5484.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5484.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5484-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>May 5, 2008</small><p>Filled Hexagonal Tiles™ - Giving unfilled hexagonal tiles an inferiority complex since 2008. *Fire up the editor and you'll find two additional versions. One that does away with the independent H/V controls, and another that works exclusively with the 'Size, pixels' slider. **For extra fun try experimenting with the shape sliders on the impulse curve. ***Props to matrix and ThreeDee for their contributions to the fraction control.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5445.html uberzev5445Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/5445.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5445.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5445-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>April 28, 2008</small><p>After witnessing one too many obese hexagons I felt compelled to create this snippet. From honeycombs to speaker grills, PR/HT has your back. ==MODE== 1) Rhomb 2 2) Rhomb 3 3) Hexagon ==SOURCE== 1) Vertical Gradient 2) Horizontal Gradient 3) Circular Gradient</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1827.html uberzev1827Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1827.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1827.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1827-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>April 21, 2008</small><p>This snippet demonstrates how to rotate an image by an arbitrary value. *This technique is 100% credited to byRo. The main difference in my version is improved speed and simplicity.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3249.html uberzev3249Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/3249.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3249.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3249-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 25, 2007</small><p>This filter provides an easy way to increase the midtone contrast of an image. For example you can emphasize (or deemphasize) detail in the midtones while leaving shadows and highlights untouched. In Photoshop, similar results can be achieved with the curves command but the procedure is complicated. Available color models are: 1: HSY -- 2: HLS -- 3: HSB -- 4: Lab</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1819.html uberzev1819Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1819.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1819.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1819-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>April 26, 2007</small><p>This snippet demonstrates three additional gain curves. One based on 'Super Circular", and two based on 'Gamma'. (Note that the default gain curve is based on 'Bias') One possible use for these curves is to increase an image's contrast without blowing out highlights or shadows. ==v1.1=== Simplified internals and sped things up a bit *Thanks to byRo for gamma-to-circle logic</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1818.html uberzev1818Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1818.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1818.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1818-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>April 26, 2007</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a circular arc curve that can exend past the current 90° sector limit. ==v1.1=== Simplified internals and sped things up a bit *Thanks to byRo for gamma-to-circle logic</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2513.html uberzev2513Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/2513.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2513.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2513-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>April 25, 2007</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a spectral gradient that appears smoother than the one generated by the spectrum component.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2318.html uberzev2318Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/2318.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2318.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2318-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 22, 2007</small><p>Also known as Erode / Dilate, this filter applies a circular offset and blends the result. Either lighter (Maximum) or darker (Minimum) colors remain. *Only use a detail level of three once you've decided on a final offset level.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2314.html uberzev2314Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/2314.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2314.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2314-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 22, 2007</small><p>This filter generates woven effects.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2312.html uberzev2312Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/2312.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2312.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2312-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 21, 2007</small><p>For all your simple spotlight needs.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2241.html uberzev2241Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/2241.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2241.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2241-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>March 12, 2007</small><p>For all your random spoke needs.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1877.html uberzev1877Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1877.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1877.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1877-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>January 29, 2007</small><p>This snippet shows you how to tile an image an arbitrary number of times. *Props to Quasimondo and voldemort for their invaluable contributions to this effect. **New for Version 2, significantly improved render time and reduced complexity.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1915.html uberzev1915Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1915.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1915.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1915-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>January 29, 2007</small><p>This snippet demonstrates a gradient that will not tile when used with non-square images. H MODE: Checked = Horizontal Image, Unchecked = Vertical Image (Both modes work for square images) ANGLE: 1 = 0°, 2 = 90°, 3 = 180°, 4 = 270°</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1821.html uberzev1821Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1821.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1821.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1821-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>January 12, 2007</small><p>This snippet demonstrates four additional blending modes. 1) NEGATION: Same as 'Difference' except equal blend colors become white. 2) EXCLUSION: Same as 'Difference' except equal blend colors become grey. 3) LIGHTER COLOR: Same as 'Lighten' except a composite of the three color channels is used to calculate the effect. 4) DARKER COLOR: Same as 'Darken' except a composite of the three color channels is used to calculate the effect.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1745.html uberzev1745Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1745.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1745.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1745-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>December 21, 2006</small><p>This filter applies a zoom blur effect to your image. The quality is far superior to what you'll find in Photoshop's built in filters. The 'fast mode' allows you to quickly preview the extent of the effect and generates interesting results in its own right.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1618.html uberzev1618Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 ESThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/1618.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1618.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1618-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>November 29, 2006</small><p>The author is not responsible for any dizziness or disorientation you may experience after using this filter.</p> http://www.filterforge.com/filters/490.html uberzev490Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.filterforge.com/filters/490.html <a href="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/490.html"><img src="http://www.filterforge.com/filters/490-small.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="120"></a><br><small>June 12, 2006</small><p>uberOOZE melts your image into a runny mess.</p>