Frosted 2 by Martin Naumann

I guess the original "Frosted" filter isn't around?

With the "Refraction" setting at 0, I'm guessing it shows the original image you refer to? With that at 0 this creates awesome effects independent of any source image.

To be clearer, I didn't ask whether anything about the filter doesn't work. My question is whether there is another "Frosted" filter (as this is "#2", but when I search I don't find #1). In the filter description for this filter here, "Frosted 2," you write:

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The Filter is the follow-up to my last one called "Frosted" The program is using the original picture as a refracting map for a colorful generated image.

I didn't find this "Frosted" filter the first time I searched, but I just searched again and found it.

I also wonder: what is the source of the texture that gets refracted? It's totally cool in its own right and it seems that it is generative; the filter displays a different texture when I change the variation slider. If it is generative, is that texture generation original to this filter? Borrowed from another?

The refraction map itself is in my opinion very artful and could be its own filter by itself.

Thanks.

Maybe the original "frosted" filter does this also, but that awesome effect of which I spoke (with refraction at 0), here is a super high resolution example of it at my flikr.A super high resolution example output form it at my flickr account.

I really think that effect by itself is worthy of its own filter. Have you posted that? Or was your filter adapted from another filter that does that?