Worley Distortion by Crapadilla

Worley Distortion by Crapadilla
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2420.html

That's pretty weird looking, like distorted blocks or something, looks cool, and I have no idea how it was done.

jffe

This filter basically is a standard Noise Distortion component reverse engineered, with the Perlin noises replaced by Worley noises.

A highly underrated 'component'...

... and sort of the big brother of this one!

This is very cool -- I think the noise distortions are much more interesting than those produced by the simple "distort" component. Just think of the kaleidoscopes I could make!

And I must complement you on the elegance and legibility of your filter -- I opened it up (of course!) and could tell right away where everything went and how things connected. I know that filter makers have no obligation to make the structures of their filters intelligble, but boy, do I appreciate when they do!

Something really weirds me out, though: the idea that "worley" is a tech term, one that anyone familiar with textures and fractal noise would recognise instantly. I know Steve Worley (my husband was/is friends with him and exported many of his textures to 3-D Studio Max), and though I've always known he was f**king brilliant, to think that he's also famous is a little mind-boggling. It's kind of cool, like knowing a celebrity from high-school or something.

yup, the first thing i do when i open up someone else's filter is, rearrange it. FF is a linear program, very much like flow charting. so, i spend the first five or ten minutes re-working the thing to be more readable. and, that also means that if i like the filter and am going to use it, i will re-save it and that means their original filter isnt going to get a usage rank rating from me. so, there's another good reason to order your components sanely.