A way to make a Q*Bert style with 3 color cubes and with missing cubes

SUGGESTION OF CUBES NOT FILLING THE WHOLE AVAILABLE SPACE

Also I have just a new idea that I suposse that perhaps could be possible to make and this is to be able to NOT to fill the whole screen with cubes and be able to cut them at some point and leave the rest white or background color.

It could be interesting and useful for making frames, or for writing text inside the cubes design

Here below is an example of what I mean

here

Cuberism Simplified.ffxml

If I do it for you how will you learn.

Now I will find a way to be able to apply not only colors to each side but also IMAGES and photos to each side of the cube.

And also will see how CFandM have done the masking of the images in his filter and see if this can be copied or applied to the cubes here in some way

And filling the mask with bomber cubes is also a bad idea as they are rotated and mixed and looses the cubes configuration, although they are not sharp cut as the above example

You are free to laugh at my silly experiment of beginner and novice FF

I think I could have found a possible way by adding the alpha channel to the Cells component, although is still not the final solution as it still does not look right BUT much better than any of other samples above

Well by changing the blend mode to multiply in the above row I got this with less missing sides, although it is still a dirty result with a few added unwanted bits of cubes sides

WOW!! You have made it for me uberzev

Thanks very much!!!! I will try it and see how it works, surely and more professional than my own version

I have just finally found a way to make a clean version of the cubes and with good results adding a scale component to the alpha channel and then after modifying some settings and deleting the blend mode and put it back to normal

Here is the result I got

WOW!! I have tried your own version of the masking and it works perfect and wonderfully AND the fill slider works also inside the mask and works perfectly filling all the borders of the mask.

I have looked inside and is an interesting way that you have done it and how you have applied the masking, good to know and learn more.

I will modify now your version with my color controls and also the scale of the mask

Thanks really very much for your great help and for taking the time to make this for me.

Here is your version of the same mask I have used in the above example and is perfect and well done

I have been changing the color controls to allow images and thought it would be very easy, but found a problem in the way uberzev has done the cubes, and is that I can´t change one of the solid fills of the checker components so it can allow the image pass through

As you can see in the example below, all the up sides of the cubes are plain colored

Although the upper part is plain colored, it follows very well the photo, because if you use the "size pixels" setting and reduce it to a very minimum, you get thousands of cubes making this curious image to blend 3 photos that looks good and would not be possible if the upper side was also changed and not plain.

The Lionfish is the one that is on the upper sides that is not shown as a photo on the cubes as it happens with the Kingfisher and Tree scene

and one more

Here is the textured version for the adding images to the left and right sides of the cubes (as said above I can´t now the upper side) so if any of you want to use it

Cuberism Simplified Mask Color Controls Images.ffxml

Actually SR, that's a pretty easy effect to do in FF.

But I want you to figure out how to do it...

hehehe its pretty fun once you get it.

WOW !!! WOW !!

I can´t believe what you have done !! This is really very good and looks excellent.

You did not know it BUT my next challenge I thought was having a BORDER control around the cubes and have it like chrome metalic, and in this you have already done the border yourself and is already included

Very well done and like it much, although in this one you do not have anymore the FILL control so you can have as many or few cubes, and the masking, but as you said well this is the bones of it and then after can be upgraded.

THANKS VERY MUCH FOR MAKING THIS BEAUTY OF FILTER

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uberzev wrote: Ok I lied, it wasn't easy...

OK, the filter is complex and more that I could have ever imagined, BUT you have ONLY taken 1 Hour and a half to make it , it seems that you are a master of FF and have really great skills and experience to be able to solve this kind of things and do it very fast and easy for you.



Thanks again and I admire the things you can do

hah thanks...

I also seem to have discovered a new type of weave by accident...

Thanks to YOU !!

And now I have discovered that you have also added a way to rotate or flip the images inside the cube so you can decide how you can show the image, like it, so I will add some controls to be able to use this good idea from outside

Also I am looking how you have done the things so I can modify it to also have missing cubes and a mask as it was in the previews versions of the filter.

GOLD OR CHROME CUBE BORDERS

Now that you have added the nice and good borders of the cubes, I will see if I can add also the great and beautiful gold or chrome cube borders in the same way as Inujima´s awesome cubes

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I also seem to have discovered a new type of weave by accident...

Cool and nice one, like it, you see that after making some things sometimes you get some FF rewards by accident

I have updated the latest filter of Cuberism Mapped as I have found some problems when trying some large photos as they were shown too small, so I have added a zoom rescaling to each of the photos of the 3 sides, and also the ability to then after move the photo to be able to fit it inside the side of the cube in the best way

Also I have added 3 controls for chossing and customizing the colors of the Colourness, and also the option to make a texture overlay over the source photo in the left and right sides of the cube.

And have changed some names to be more meaningful and useful

Also now there is 11 presets. The preset 11 is the one using the Colorness as texturing, replace the left and right with your own textures


MASKING AND MISSING CUBES

I have included inside the filter the other 3 versions shown before of the previous versions of the filter, BUT until now I have not been able to make this filter work with masking or missing cubes as it happens in the previous versions, sorry.

In all the ways when trying masking the cubes gets modified or broken the tiles or images, or the cubes get cut because of the alpha, or other weird results

Although in the masking I got some bad results, but could make something, but in the missing tiles although have tried many ways and combinations did not get any possible result.

I have tried at least 5 ways for each of masking and missing cubes, with different combinations and settings and I do not know why it does not work, and have changed some components but neither the masking or missing cubes works as this is done in a different way than previous

The problem is that now is larger and have more related components and there are more possible combinations and possible ways to do it.

Cuberism Mapped updated.ffxml

Here is one example I have made using the Morgantao´s Busted Tiles Double Image for the base source images

Then after I loaded them into the cubes

I have searched how the missing tiles or objects is made in others filters to know if there could be a different way to make the missing cubes in the new mapped version, and I have seen that there different ways, but have tried to make it and it does not work, as I really do not know the basic secret behind the missing tiles effect.

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/9792.html

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3750.html

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5998.html

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3375.html

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4714.html

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6887.html

I have seen how it works the above filters, but have not been able to make it work here with this filter

Some possible hint and help ?? Thanks

Here is a masked version of the FF Lifesaver with transparency