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SpaceRay
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OH!! You have done a great work with this spirographic style design, I like it much and is really a great idea to combine different sizes of the same design together and rotated, it looks very well.

When I have seen the filter inside I was really amazed and surprised to see the huge amount of rotation and blend components, and I really admire that you have the great and big patience to be able to build this in this way

But then I think why you have done it this way, when you can make exactly the same using Loops component?

I think that you may not know how to do it, and I did not know either, until I have found this filter Islamic Geometric Tiling Pattern Generator

With this I learned that you can connect anything you may want and use the loop

I have made your great filter using Loops with this filter above and I have seen that the render time is half of your own filter

RollStar made with loops.ffxml
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Ramlyn
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Thanks for the compliments and for making a loop version of this filter. smile:D smile:D smile:D

Yes, you are right, using Loop makes the filter faster.

The reason why I didn't use Loop is that I'm still developing other versions of this filter, where I have a variable rotation. Then I decided to use many rotation components so that I can modify the rotation of every single polygon.
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SpaceRay
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The reason why I didn't use Loop is that I'm still developing other versions of this filter, where I have a variable rotation. Then I decided to use many rotation components so that I can modify the rotation of every single polygon.


Interesting that you are making other versions with different things, will see what creative ideas you may have, and again I congratulate you for having the patience to make this kind of filter with so many components duplicated.
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SpaceRay
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I Like much what you have and so I made a new version of your awesome filter with some additional things I think it could be good for making a new version 2 but as said at the end, are just only suggestions.

1 - SWITCH ON/OFF EACH MULTI - You can Switch on and off each layer of the Multi with a checkbox instead of the way of reducing to 0 the offset, and this way you can customize more easily the well done offset and rotation controls you have done as you can isolate and identify better each layer. See the last 6 presets

2 - COLOR EACH LAYER INDIVIDUALLY - You can color all the shapes at once with Line color option, or you can alternatively choose which one you want to change and activate the color you may want to modify in the Options part

This could also help to identify and know better which is the layer or multi you are using with the scale and offset and then you can turn it back to white if wanted.

3 - USE IMAGES TO COLORIZE - You can use in the Line Color also images to overlay them over the design, and it makes cool designs too, and you can colorize and tint the shapes this way with textures.

4 - USE IMAGES TO EACH LAYER - You can also add images individually to each one of the Multi instead of one over all the design, and you can mix it with the Line colors available and you can put just one, or more as you may want to mix it.

5 - GRADIENT COLORIZE - You can choose to colorize the design using the Spectrum component, and there is controls to rotate

6 - SPECTRUM COLORIZE - In the same as 5, You can choose to colorize the design using the Spectrum component, and there is controls to rotate or offset the colors

7 - SCALE AND ROTATE END RESULT - There is a finish result option as I was inspired of preset 5 that you may be able also to zoom to a closer part of the design if wanted (see preset 11)

There are 38 presets to show the new things including the ones you made The last 6 presets are only to show the removal of the layers combination

Of course you are totally free to add, like, delete or remove what you may want and theses are just ONLY possible suggestions and is up to you to decide what is good or not, as it is your filter and you decide and only if you want and like it or not.

Filter Updated October 12 new for FF 9 (I mean since I first uploaded)

I keep your original filter without the loops if you want to use it with the added things

RollStar made with loops extended.ffxml
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Ramlyn
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Nice! Ok, I will develop this version and propose it as a new filter.

In my original filter I used the control Single-Multi to switch on the Multi in the order 1, 1+2, 1+2+3, 1+2+3+4. I did this for avoiding to put 4 controls when one could do the job. But using 4 controls, like you did, is easier to understand.

I will try to add a distortion to the color. Let's see how it goes.
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Ramlyn
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I uploaded the new filter just now. It will appear soon! smile:D
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SpaceRay
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Thanks very much for the new filter Rollstar Cooperation and for using my suggestions and for making an awesome great work with it

I have a simple new suggestion that changes much this filter and do new unusual things

Just only add a single scale component in the loop and so you can now do things that are beyond having all the shapes the same, and it will introduce more possibilities to break out from the uniformity

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SpaceRay
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For example Preset 1 with 0,92 Scale gives this

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SpaceRay
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or if you increase the Scale to 1,16 and then also reduce the Scale result to 0,25 you get this

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Ramlyn
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Very nice! smile:D

I will work on your idea. smile:D
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Ghislaine
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Wow Ramlyn! We are now 2 to make stuff like this. I love it !
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Ramlyn
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Hi! smile:D
Yes, it is nice. We should try to develop this kind of filters more. smile:D
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Ramlyn
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New filter coming soon.

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Ramlyn
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Other preset

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Other preset

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