Noise Lab

coral has so many varieties, one common fact is that polyps have little tenticles, making them quite hard I think to do them justice

here's a 2nd:

and the last, for now:

ah, good, sjeiti! i just looked at it again, and i'll have to open up the filter again. i thought it was already scaled up more than it is. i was shooting more for brain coral than sponge, though

... yeah, it's about time somebody made a Spongebob Squarepants filter

cool

To release or not

that would be nice, can have a play with it

cool [ replied ]

ok, this is long overdue on resurrecting this thread. i'd suggest to any one new to FF to check this thread out start to finish. this is one of those old resources that helped a lot of us out in earlier days and it shld not be allowed to slip into obscurity.

so, with all the new tools and components and just good old toys of beta 2, it's time to reopen the noise lab. too many cobwebs in here

i'm not going to lecture too much on this to start, but i will suggest that you take the original perlin noise ideas and start plugging them into bombers and elipses and polygons. dont use the free poly and free elipse; keep it seamless. instead of plugging perlins into perlins, try multiple perlins plugged into a bomber (non-hdr) and start tweaking. there's an array of stuff there not touched yet and with even more detail than our version one stuff.

here's just one example. this reminds me of coral underwater seen from above water.

Hey cool Craig, the cells are good and they look like their dividing ......... maybe you'll tempt the missing Dilla out of hiding

thanks, carl, but the colors are all wrong on the 'cells' and they shld be more transparent, but i wanted to show some of the new possibilities.

and hi dilla

ok, here's a new update to the same filter. the basic idea is perlin into shape component into bomber. that's the basics. repeat that for however many bomber positions you want to fill. then, for variation, add some other noise types plugged into the perlins. add AO or any other of new effects you want. do make it a surface filter and add reflectivity and metallic for other interesting effects. there are a LOT of variations one can try. experiment. have fun

ok, here's a new texture from the update:

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Carl wrote: you must have some interesting experiments with FF2 in your lair?

Actually, only very few. I just didn't have the time to create with FF2 as much as I wanted to.

thanks, carl. i'm hoping there'll be some scripting done in this area. i only know smatterings of scripting from working with filtermeister a small bit, so i'm hoping others will infuse some good stuff to use here.

Nice stone texture, Craig!!!

If taken further, I'd like to see the lighter, more continuous areas in white/smoky quartz.....

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Crapadilla wrote: only the release of a new beta stage could tempt Dilla out of hiding.

Was that Dilla??? Nah, couldn't be.....it's just a figment of my exaggeration.... heard he retired and dissappeared somewhere up in the Canadian Rockies with just his laptop.....and was never seen again.....

Watcha got??? ... lol...

Ah, two volunteers! Excellent, and - dare I say it - about time!

Think you just volunteered to create a noise library... I've been Dilla's sock-puppet all along for forum entertainment value purposes only...

*switching accounts now...*

and one more, same filter.

Nice noise Kraellin, it looks great for stone textures.

Yup, looks like a job for the script component, with fractals, erosion and all. That counts me out, too! Phew!