Other Interesting Ideas

Matching Formulas

Many noise types are based on the same underlying formulas, thus they will line up if made the same size. You can match up for example a Cell and Pyramid noises to come up with something like:





Match Formulas.ffxml

You probably figured this out already, but if you flip the orientation of everything, add a -100V 50% offset right before the mirrored gradient, and make the value of the last offset (which is now vertical) negative, you can do a horizontal separation.

This thread is interesting

Actually, I'll just started another thread on this one here so it doesn't get lost in the depths of this thread.

Haha, how cool is that! Could be a scifi city aswell. Bet it would look amazing with a cool night sky and lights.

I´m playing with your shadow snippet and am making a wall for your ancient city

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I´m playing with your shadow snippet and am making a wall for your ancient city

Oh, cool. I am trying to figure out a way to apply textures to the "3D" image. It is rather tricky. I have figured out a way to do "planar mapping", but it is pretty limited. Here is an attempt at cubic mapping, which is far from a workable state, but nonetheless shows some promise. Here I had to manually slant two of the three planes to get them to align. It should be automatic to be user-friendly, but I'm sure there is some way to make it happen.
Also, it should be very easy to assign different textures to different objects once the mapping is correct.
(The front face is not aligned, as it is really the cut-off section of the full cube)

Similarly, here's a sphere displaced (in Filter Forge) using Vladimir's Crysta texture.

Rawn's Asteroid:

When can the rest of us play with this? You know, us mortals that can't 3D smudge....

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ThreeDee wrote: I guess the right term would be Smudge 3D, not Smear... Here's spherical displacement based on the same methodology:

WOW, Like very much this sphere effect and love the way you have made the sticks show in different heights and different colors, great 3D effect.

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Similarly, here's a sphere displaced (in Filter Forge) using Vladimir's Crysta texture.

WOW!!! WOW !! This is really excellent and very well done and like much the great 3D effect conversion of the Vladimir's Crysta filter.

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Rawn's Asteroid:

WOW!!! WOW !! Jawdropping well done asteroid using the Asteroid filter by Rawn AND what is more important and that I still can´t believe is that THIS IS DONE IN FF!!! and not in a 3D special software where it would be more easy to make.

My great congratulations for you to be able to make things like this 3D mapping using FF filters like for example this ones shown here
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PLEASE, PLEASE, Does this mean that the Smudge 3D could be used to convert filters into 3D shapes like this one ?
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For example, could the awesome and excellent Crystals by Skybase be used to make this kind of 3D shapes ?

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Morgantao wrote: When can the rest of us play with this? You know, us mortals that can't 3D smudge....

YES, YES!!! Will us plain and simple mortals play with FF Gods things or we are not allowed to do it and is reserved just for the masters that can use this and is a private thing

It would be really good to know HOW this Smudge 3D works, how is done, and how can be used for making such awesome and amazing things as shown above.

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Indigo Ray wrote: Morgan, SR, I can try to make a "3d smudge snippet" and submit it to the library

OH YES, this would be very good, interesting and useful so we could also see how this works and what can be done.

Thanks very much

No, I was referring to these:

[img]http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=10&TID=5660&MID=110384[/img]

[img]http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read.php?FID=10&TID=5660&MID=110384[/img]

Edit: how do you link the images?

Ahh! Thank you

I was referring to these:

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Similarly, here's a sphere displaced (in Filter Forge) using Vladimir's Crysta texture.

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As you may have guessed, this was done by unspherizing a texture, then smudging for depth and spherizing the result. (A little more involved than that, but that's the basic idea). Blurring the line between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional

Well I could never have guessed it

Please, would be very good and useful if you could explain how to convert a filter like the Vladimir's Crysta to use it with this Smudge 3D and be able to get this excellent and beautiful result you have got here.

Thanks very much

After extensive experimentation, I've got the cubic mapping working the way it should.

(The geometry itself is cutting off at the view plane.)

WOW!! Very well done mapping, like it much how you have done it.

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Sharandra wrote: Mapping on the city looks good. Looking forward to see it with textures applied

Now this really well done texture mapping to see it like 3D buildings.

Yay, you did it! Very nice!

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ThreeDee wrote Height Painting

I have missed this one, and I like how is done and curious, and interesting to see how this works

Thanks

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How could this shown here below in the ball be showing the stick in a flat surface and still be 3D?

By combining the two...

It's not all that exciting, though, since the Smudge method creates artifacts, and you have to render the image at larger size and then resize to make it presentable (like was done here).

Good to have you back more, threesome! The buildings are cool!

This last example above looks really amazing and really excellent !!!!

AND you say that you have been able to make it faster which is a very good thing too

Cubic mapping one step closer. Displacement didn't work out yet, but at least got a 3D cube that you can turn about 45 degrees on the y axis (as far left and right as you can still see three sides).