Rainbow Almond transparent shapes using Loops

I have found this beautiful circular colors gradiation, and think that can be done in FF with Loops rotating an almond shape with blending transparent rainbow colors as shown here

I am not sure. but I think that the rotated shape is like an almond shape that goes from edge to the center

Although I have not yet been able to make this almond shape made by Squideey work with loops

Or maybe I should use some kind of Curves component with the Ellipse component to get that almond shape instead

Also I still have to discover and know how to make the repeating shape transparent

I have been looking at many loops filters from other authors but still have not found a way to do it, will have to see more

Here below is the filter I have until this moment and some additional components that I have tried without sucess yet

FF 4.0 filter

Rainbow Almonds.ffxml

WOW! thanks very much Yuya, for uploading the filter, now I know how you have done it, I have tested before a similar way using the blend mode in a similar way but did not work, and is because you have attached the loops rotation to the blend mode instead of the Free Elipse component as I have done.

I also knew and imagined that for building the almond shape you have to use some kind of curve component attached to the ellipse component, but I was wrong testing it with the bevel link, as you have used the curve attached to a profile gradient and then to the Radius link!!! Cool and interesting!!!

And what is more surprising is how you have used the enlarged version of the almond to get the effect and then use the scale to get it out fully, great!

And to be able to get a good shading colors of the transparency you have reduced the saturation so you get a good amount of colors without overlaying them as it has happened to me

Although your example shown was not very accurate to the original image shown in the first post above, but I found that modifying the minimum value inside the curve component will get it right and more like the original one.

Here is what I have got

I'm just giving an example in terms of color. You can feed it gradients and otherwise. Pretty simple.

Or by duplicating all the filter and having one result with Multiply blend and the other with Difference with 0 value saturation, and then after blend both results with multiply you can get an even better result

I know this is very different from the first original shape, but it looks cool too

And what would happen if you activate the Randomize slave of the loop and attach it to the squash link of the Ellipse component ?

With all the same settings as the above example show just here above but using the new aded randomizer I got this

Now attaching the Randomizer slave to both "Squash" and "Origin Y" links of the ellipse and modify some more the Impulse curve settings

Thanks again Yuya for showing how this filter could be done possible

And a slight mod to it really changes things.

Here is the filter modified to make this above example

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Yuya Lol quit signing your name on everything haha.

You already know why I am doing it, as I want to avoid the hotlinking and making it more difficult

Rainbow Flower Shading and Line Width.ffxml

More modification and a 1000 iterations later. Render times are a bit atrocious with all the fancy effects so I removed them. Same thing: customizable color ramp, self-generating patterns... etc.

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smile:D smile:D You already know why I am doing it, as I want to avoid the hotlinking and making it more difficult

Silly you, go and read my last couple thoughts on that forum post where we were discussing about watermarks. Wait, so in the end did you understand what I wrote there? Cause it seems like you're not understanding the reasons for my argument.

SpaceRay, the version with the outlines is especially beautiful!

Here's a shaded version. Cheap AO + a couple more shading tweaks.

Ambient Occlusion. Technically, it's a simulated appearance of ambient lighting in a 3D scene (lighting from all sides) typically leaving fuzzy shadows in the corners of objects (occlusion).

From the artist's perspective: It's the render option thingy that gives corners of everything a nice soft shadow, which gives the overall render a nice feeling of detail and depth without spending too much time lighting details.

Note that in my version, I'm really not doing "3D" and rather faking the appearance of 3D by using gradients and stuff. When gradients are soft enough, they cluster up creating a nice shaded appearance on pretty much anything. It's basically drop shadow, faded super crazy and blended together in a nice way.