Cube / Isometric Challenges

That's very clean!! Nice work!

Gotta cheat somewhere ...

Should be easy enough to make it flat by vertical scaling, now that it doesn't need rotation.

The important thing is that we're about 95% there on the way to Pin Art.

Very Uber...Good Stuff as always..

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The important thing is that we're about 95% there on the way to Pin Art.

I tried but the results are hideous. I'm not sure pin art looks good at such an extreme angle. (Maybe your ambient occlusion can make it look right)

You guys blow my mind...

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I've managed to produce a bomber version that has 100% properly tiled output and starts perfectly flat.

It's a beautiful thing!

I noticed that you get some funky extra particles after you get above 45 on the chaos. If you just disconnect the depth map, it works perfect.

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I tried but the results are hideous. I'm not sure pin art looks good at such an extreme angle. (Maybe your ambient occlusion can make it look right)

It definitely needs some shadows to look like something...

Offset/image tint now start in original position. Also did some optimization.

BTW you'll want to squash your source image by -50% if you want a more realistic effect.



Time to step your game up ThreeDee.

Cuberism Grid Bomber 2.0.ffxml

BTW I found Adobe Illustrator really useful for figuring out some of the gradient coordinates.

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Can we see a screenshot of what you mean?

Here's a quick example.

I had this very simple gradient in my filter... ( x = 0, 0.2; y = 0, 0.4)


Followed by a scale set to 5.33333



But all I really need is the result of the scale. The math is basic but for myself I prefer a visual solution.

So I draw a wireframe of the gradient in Illustrator. The red line representing the starting and ending coordinates.


Then I apply the scale and then measure the new coordinate locations.



x = -2.1667, -1.1
y = -2.1667, -0.0333

This example is straightforward but I've also used illustrator to draw and rotate grids of various sizes in a trial-and-error approach which led me to the bomber isometric solution. (which at one point I didn't think was possible)

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ThreeDee wrote: When offset, it looks like this.

I like much your version of this cubes in different offsets and color and the shading and is well done, what I would like to see also if bigger differences

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ThreeDee wrote: The filter is somewhat slow as I made it a surface filter. On the other hand, this allows lighting changes.

I can suggest that the lighting and well done shadows could be optional, and so you could decide if you want with or without shadows, perhaps, you could begin designing the cubes shapes you want and then when you have got the right look you want you can activate the shadows and lighting for the final result.

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ThreeDee wrote: Ambient Occlusion for increased depth and slowness.

WOW!! This looks excellent and very well done, love the shadows and lighting and gives much better realism and great shading to each cube BUT the bad thing is that Filter Forge is slow processing the needed Ambient Occlusion and there is no hope that will change in FF 4.0

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Skybase wrote: do I have to explain what Ambient Occlusion does to make renders go faster?

YES, it would be very good and useful to know how to use the Ambient Occlusion in the best optimum way and optimizing it for speed and getting good quality lighting and shadows.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience

Would be possible to make also something like this figure shown in the first post?

As shown by ThreeDee, the Ambient Occlusion gives much better realism and good shadows for the cubes although must pay the quality for the slowness.

This is the normal plain default one

lol when the filter itself produces pixely results, AO just looks inappropriate. Nice idea though.

There is no more advance in this projects and challenges?

There are really well done and interesting and would be good to see more of this beauty

Hello, I have taken the first version of the Cuberism Grid Fixed that is on page 1 and have added color effects

This original, awesome and unusual filter has been created by uberzev

I have modified it to be able to have multiple colors and also give the effect of colors on the borders and make for example similar to neon borders without the glow.

Although there is only 3 colors you can get some more by mixing the colors with blend modes and will give different color even based on the same colors sources.

Also if you activate "invert" it you will have also different colors

To see how many things can be done I have made 36 presets

See the examples on the presets and how they are done.

Sorry that it does not work with images, only with plain colors. If anybody knows how to put images overlaid over each cube and still keep the shading, will be welcome to modify it, thanks

Cuberism Grid Fix with Colors.ffxml