Lace Curtains by Mousewrites
StevieJ
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Lace Curtains by Mousewrites http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5035.html  Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: January 30, 2008 11:10 pm | ||||||
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StevieJ
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I like this......clean, simple, and very useful.... 
Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: January 30, 2008 11:12 pm | ||||||
Mousewrites
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Thanks, Steve!
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| Posted: January 31, 2008 12:49 am | ||||||
| jffe |
I don't like how perfect it all is, very boring in that sense, very square with 90* edges etc. (the curtain themselves, and how it's just exactly the same each tiem it repeats, or appears to be). However, you've probably got the best doilie-type patterns going on that I've seen yet. So please balance those 2 comments out, and realize this filter only needs a little more tweaking, and it'll probably go HU. That, and that you should make a silly doilie filter using the guts of it, and claim a for-sure-and-a-half HU for that one. 
jffe Filter Forger |
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| Posted: January 31, 2008 12:59 am | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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Thanks, jffe!
Yeah, I'm poking the guts to make a doilies thingy, but it's being persistently... boring looking. Working on that. As for the curtains being boring... you're totally right, and I've been experimenting with making them less so. Many of the 'shifts' and 'distorts' I've been using just make it look weird, so I'm still working on it. |
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| Posted: January 31, 2008 1:17 am | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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I updated the filter. Let me know what you think! | |||||
| Posted: January 31, 2008 2:18 am | ||||||
Crapadilla
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Small tip: The shadow areas are completely black, which they wouldn't be in reality...   --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac beta!" |
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| Posted: January 31, 2008 6:13 am | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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And they weren't in the original. Arg. I thought I fixed that before I uploaded. Ok, another update coming. | |||||
| Posted: January 31, 2008 9:28 am | ||||||
| jffe |
Much, much nicer looking now. Ahimsa and kraellin would be proud (I think they had some silky looking draperies filters a while back), this latest version is looking much more 'realistic' and all. And I still think you could make a good doilie filter, not that I want one ha-ha, just saying, those patterns look very doilie-friendly to me is all.
jffe Filter Forger |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 2:45 am | ||||||
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Crapadilla
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The shadows are still way too dark for my tastes, but you're getting there...   --- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid Mac beta!" |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 5:37 am | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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Hmmm. Maybe I'll include a darkness slider for the shadows. They look fine (can see the lace all the way though the shadow) on my system, but that's something that gamma will effect a lot. |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 9:36 am | ||||||
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StevieJ
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Yeah, you could just use a blend component and limit the greyscale parameters on the noise background....
The addition of some distortion is looking good!!! Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 12:56 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
looks pretty damn good to me, but a dark/light slider might be good for varying tastes. Ya can't sell art to artists!
Craig |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 1:33 pm | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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It kinda breaks the 'lace' look, which is why preset 2 looks like... well, not nice. I didn't catch that one before I sent it, which means I need to update it...again.
Yup. Probably will do that tonight. You know, it's pretty funny that I'm spending all this time on a filter that is so specialized it likely won't get used much. I'm good at that.
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 1:42 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
actually, my first 'curtains' filter went HU. so, hang in there Ya can't sell art to artists!
Craig |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 1:57 pm | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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Wow, I like yours. I unintentionally copied most of it, it looks like.  |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 2:09 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
hehehe, that's ok. steve does it to me all the time or is it me that does it to steve all the time. i forget, but one of us, i'm pretty sure, is a really plagarizing, unethical, low-life bastid of monumental proportions
oh, and take a look at my other one, too. and ahimsa's Ya can't sell art to artists!
Craig |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 2:12 pm | ||||||
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StevieJ
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I do the simple ones that everyone else would be embarrassed to do......so it's not me.....  ..... LMAO......Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 2:28 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
ah, i knew it was one of us, then Ya can't sell art to artists!
Craig |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 2:58 pm | ||||||
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StevieJ
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Aye matie, there be pirates among us..... LOL.... Steve
“Buzzards gotta eat.....same as worms....." - Clint :) |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 3:38 pm | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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Wow. You know, what's weird is that this filter came out of a totally unrelated one, and I never intended it to be a curtain filter... just wanted something to show off the lace effect. It's like i reinvented the wheel... but only as a byproduct of making a turing machine. :grin: |
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 11:11 pm | ||||||
| Kraellin |
i do that all the time, mouse, find one thing in another. and what's a turing machine? Ya can't sell art to artists!
Craig |
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| Posted: February 2, 2008 10:16 am | ||||||
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Mousewrites
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Turing Machine (Wikipedia) "Turing machines are extremely basic abstract symbol-manipulating devices which, despite their simplicity, can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer that could possibly be constructed."
It's a complicated calculating device, mostly used as an example of an complex " thought experiment about the limits of mechanical computation; thus they were not actually constructed" I don't pretend to understand them, I just think the concept is nifty. |
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| Posted: February 2, 2008 11:15 am | ||||||
| Kraellin |
gah! math! and not only math, but weird math!! hehe, ok, i shld quit asking those 'what is that' questions so, this is sort of a mathematical, contruct, symbolic, logic, computing, framework/procedure. looks very weird.
but, thank you Ya can't sell art to artists!
Craig |
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| Posted: February 2, 2008 12:47 pm | ||||||