A "Stones"-like noise with triangular forms?

I'm currently working on a broken-glass filter and had some good results with the "Stones"-noise. I'm using a low treshold on it to determine the breaking-lines and an if-module on a solid-filled version od "Stones" to determine the areas of single shards.

My problem is that, while glass usually breaks into shards with 3 or 4 edges, "Stones" often delivers shapes with 5 or 6 edges, which makes the whole thing look pretty unrealistic.

Is it possible to make or modify a script so it delivers a triagular-stones-noise?

Unfortunately I cant script at all, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

This idea occurred to me too.
Unfortunately, the triangles must not overlap each other, because I need the grooves betwen them to determine my breaking-lines.
Also, overlapping triangles often produce concave forms within each other, which would look pretty unrealistic as shards :/

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Uberzev, maybe your smooth stone mosaic can be adapted to make triangles or square instead of ovals, or eggs?

The underlining math of my filter is the same as Worley Cell noise, and I don't believe that formula offers triangles.

The solid-fill version of chaffs makes some decent triangles...

Semi-Trianglular Noise.ffxml

I have modified it to be able to fill the beautiful triangular shapes created by this with images but what I really have done is only fill the lines and background

And here is the simple modification

Offset Edges with Images.ffxml

What would be really good is to be able to make the image FOLLOW and fill the shapes made by this filter with this setting shown here



So the image would be shattered and cut to fill the inside of the white shapes of this pattern shown here and have some kind of shading so it would look more something like a 3D style

Of course that what I made above was very simple and nothing fancy, was just a quick test.

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Like this?

OH, yes, this is what I was talking about. Be able to modify the source colors into the shapes. Well done!! Like it much

Also would be good if possible to make the real photo image broken into pieces to fill the irregular shapes and not only the source colors

lol want to give it a shot yourself and then should I just reveal how it was done?

and here is another example

Using the Blast Shadows by Threedee I have got this other version but all of them have uniform shadows and although it looks nice and good is not exactly the effect I would like

Sorry to ask a possible basic question, but why the Chaffs work very well when using solid fill, but when you uncheck it to have the full image source it does not work in the same way?

I mean that the source image is not distorted to the shapes, like it happens when using solid fill, and i have tried also different settings and none of them work in the same way if solid fill is unchecked.

Thanks Skybase for your answer, I also went to see the help docs to see if I was doing something wrong or there something I did not know, but seems that as you say well, it works only when the solid fills is activated, because if not not you can´t see the effect

I asked this because I have seen that on other component (do not remember which one) I have seen that when unchecking the solid fill checkbox the effect keeps being the same but with the full real source image instead of one solid color, so I thought that in this one would work in the same way, but I was wrong.

And as you have shown in the above example there are other ways to make this WITH the source image and not a solid color, although I still do not know how.

Screenshot explains much of the way I worked on it. It's honestly kinda lazy.

Notes: The rotate component uses the original chaffs component that was in Uberzev's filter. The colored chaffs component can also be used to derive rotation values, however you should desaturate it, but this is up to you. Two chaffs components should have the same variation value, otherwise they'll have different results.

I forgot to tell that I have tried this that you have shown above with the instructions and works very well

Thanks very much Skybase for all the help given already and for caring and taking the time to make this screenshot with the detailed instructions that have been very useful and helpful.

Now the next step is to be able to combine different images filling the shapes and not using only one source image, and the example on how to do it is shown with the Mondrian filter by Skybase but without the instructions given already above I would not have been able to understand and use it

Thanks also to uberzev for making the Offset Eddges filter above and sharing it here in the forum and also to ThreeDee for making the great Shadows snippet

Here are some examples I have done, although the filter stills needs some work for it to work right and some more controls, also there is a bad problem using the "Size, pixels" setting as it gives very unwanted results, so I have replaced it with Scale, and although it works it does not give the same result.

I have just discovered this and it seems to be very interesting and nice effect, thanks uberzev, Skybase and SpaceRay for all this thread

I will try to understand it and see what can be done with this.

Please, SpaceRay could you share the filter of your last example shown? it looks very good and nice

thanks

An experiment similar to Stones/Cells :

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Skybase wrote: Screenshot explains much of the way I worked on i

i had put in the FF forum search "fill a shape" and found agin this thread that I did not remember and it seems that this may explain in some way what I have asked in this other thread about Hexagon Parade by Skybase

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Please, Skybase, can you tell if this is the same as the technique used for Hexagon Parade?

Does the source image to be feed into the rotate component must be in grayscale shades or grayscale gradient to work?

Thanks

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LexArt wrote: Please, Skybase, can you tell if this is the same as the technique used for Hexagon Parade?

Yes, as said by Skybase, although it may look similar, is not at all the same as he has told also on another part of the forum

I can not help on understanding how this works, as I also do not understand it, but you can try and experiment and test things and see what happen and see if you can get something similar or that you may like