LAB#3015 Skybase

Alternative input with the 10 image mixer.

I have already made a totally new 11 Stripes Images mix using Free Rectangles and Image bound

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Skybase Alternative input with the 10 image mixer

Do you mean that this are input created with FF? Because this looks like the "Bacteria" option but with image stripes and triangles.

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Oh the fun

Nice and cooool, good idea.

Is this using the stripes with bomber?

I have put an answer to you in this other threadthis other thread

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Skybase Isn't it amazing that one component with 1 setting solves most problems your filter's been experiencing?

well, I already know about the image bounds setting, but this does not always solve the things, AND in my filter it does not solve it if you use a vertical rectangle.

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The atmosphere on these forums has unfortunately changed over the years

YES!! It was much better 2 years ago where there was a lot of original ideas, progress and innovative things made with FF and there was much more FF users

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none of the images above use bombers. smile;) They're demonstrating possibilities with a variety of input in the 10 image mixer thingy.

Interesting that you are not using the bomber to make those things, and I have tried to make something myself but do not know how you have them, as my results are very different, will put them on another thread

Your filters are fabulous. And though I regret that you aren't making most available to try out, I respect your desire to share with trusted friends and developers only.

I'm sorry to hear that the forum has deteriorated from what it used to be from a technical and idea and solution-sharing standpoint. Unfortunately, I can't help in that regard, since my interest in Filter Forge is looking at beautiful things, like someone who enjoys listening to music but who can't sing or play an instrument. My only contribution is a financial one, since I bought the product.

Talking about beautiful things, I was intrigued by the hexagons printed on the tracing paper. They are extremely lovely, and I can think of a million uses but I don't understand the purpose of the tracing paper or folding paper. Can you explain what the sheets are intended to be used for? Are you selling them?

Interesting - usually one doesn't think of tracing paper as something one would want or need to print on. No need to send sheets, although they look nice enough to be framed. I love the idea of the many different designs and colors. The shapes would be interesting as a school or kindergarten activity - have the children pick a shape they like, draw it and then explain what they liked about it. Or use the shapes individually as design elements in different projects. Vector images would be more practical for that, though, because they could be resized on the fly.

You do the most creative things!

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Variations of the circles thing

WOW!! Beatiful and lovely glow neon circular lines with different colors mixed one with each other. Great!!!

Dominoes effect - suggested by SpaceRay.

Stoney painting!

Some what an old thing.

Fake internal shading by Betis and I Dream in EGA by Mike

Produces neat little pixel art texture generators.

Yes, I can see the bits slowly moving... How long did this take to render?

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Yes, I can see the bits slowly moving... How long did this take to render?

Got your email as well so I thought I'd leave a response here.

Basically it takes around 1 minute on my computer running on 8 virtual cores. It's surprisingly not that bad.

I've kinda gone a bit stupid busy lately due to some ridiculous load of work that I was expecting.... Either way, the effect above is just the same basic reaction diffusion separated into 3 channels.

You folks should give it a shot. It's just basic!: )

Reaction-Diffusion RGB.ffxml

Something about the details.

2nd one looks like DRVG to me. Some kind of height mapping with the lighting model as well? Surface Texture Engine? First one, I'm not sure, too many "brushes" or shapes to be one of mine. All bomber all the time.

Generating some textures

And a new filter being developed. - Takes an image and does some math magic.

MORE THINGS.

My nebulae generator / some pictures were featured on DigitalART served.

http://www.digitalartserved.com/galle...h/10915223

Lately haven't made much progress making new things with FilterForge, unfortunately due to a lot of things being client work... or just simply me being too busy with life.

I finally found time to make something interesting. Here's one for you all.

ABOUT THE LAST TWO

Beautiful and well done bicolor patterns with that great white gradient that makes it SO MUCH better! Also like the cool shapes it can create and the good and ordered complexity it makes, it seems that is not totally random, and is created with some care.

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Skybase The whole thing's relatively simple

I do not know how you have done it and can´t guess it, but surely that is relatively simple FOR YOU that you are a master and expert of filter forge and is simple and easy to create things, but maybe is not so easy and simple for others to do it

You have the power to have some nice and innovative and creative different ideas AND the knowledge and experience to be able to MAKE them as you want

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SKybase it's probably the way it looks that keeps me thinking "woooo"

I agree, the way it looks make me also think WOW

And maybe it would be more woooo IF it could have textures or photos instead of only plain colors, although maybe the effect does not work in the same way and could be ruined with images instead.

Working on my experimental comic: SideTrip.

FilterForge used super subtly.

I've been lately pretty damn busy with everything in life. It seems I'm missing out on some FilterForge forum action.

Either way, I've been working on a bunch of interesting things and realized that I was working naturally with PBR materials. In general, FilterForge doesn't do PBR (yet) but you can still throw in those image maps anyway into the appropriate slots for the PBR material.

By the way for those wondering what PBR stands for, it's Physically Based Rendering. Materials used in physically based renders utilize real-life measurements of reflectivity of materials. Hence it basically looks closer to what's real. This doesn't mean the traditional BRDF (Bidirectional reflectance distribution function), which is what most of us are used to using when editing materials in 3D programs, is worse. It just takes more effort to achieve the appearance you want.

The image attached shows a FilterForge texture driving several parameters of a PBR material. There's a bit of glow and some color correction.

What's cool is that PBR's being supported by many programs lately. This particular image was rendered with Element3D and I just did it as a sample to demo how cool it looks. But Unity, UnrealEngine, sculpting programs like 3DCoat, Mari support PBR materials for the sake that they're pretty awesome and nobody can complain how badass things look when it runs in real time.

Anyway that's it for now! Cheers.

Reworking old filters!