Nice Reaction Diffusion patterns with Filter Forge and also Photoshop

As I have said in my last post from previous page, I have now been trying to use these Reaction Diffusion pattern as source some FF filters

Another example is using the very good Rusterizer by CorvusCroax

And changing the colors with the beautiful and well done StevieJ's SpectralGlow

SR, you should just make alternative starting patterns for each trial you do. It'd be more fun. Plus it'll add to your visual catalog of ideas for other undiscovered patterns.

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Skybase SR, you should just make alternative starting patterns for each trial you do. It'd be more fun. Plus it'll add to your visual catalog of ideas for other undiscovered patterns.

YES, I will do it and make as you say, alternative starting patterns, and I have been testing some.

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Skybase The colors.... oh man.

As I have already said in my last post of previous page

I wonder if you have used separated color channels as it happens in the Harris Shutter effect or like the FF filter Harris Shutter Effect by Morgantao

Thanks for the answer Skybase, now I know that it is not anything simple and similar to the Harris shutter effect, and really I am not interested much how you have done it, just was curious.

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Skybase This whole concept might overwhelm you but do try figuring it out.

I am already much overwhelm with the things I already know, so will not enter into a "new garden" of more complex things if I really I am not interested to get this effect, so I will not try to figure out, as said was just curious.

Maybe I have said something wrong and you misunderstood,, when I have said "I am not interested to get this effect" I ONLY mean about this COLOR effect that you and Indigo Ray have made, NOT about Reaction Diffusion patterns that I am very interested and of course that will keep trying to figure out new ways to make these kind of reaction difussion patterns as I have said before.
Sorry for the possible confusion

I have seen that someone FF user sueta have used the Reaction Diffusion filter by Skybase to make a very well done, beautiful and artistic work that I like it.

See it in the FF Gallery

Lotus vibrant by sueta

These are also known a Turing Patterns named after Alan Turing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

When I did a google image search for TURING PATTERNS I came across some images I did not see before when I had searched Reaction - Diffusion

This is one I found when searching Turing Patters there are videos also that show these forming.

Interesting for sure.

Those you should make with processing.

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Skybase Those you should make with processing.

But to be able to use the very interesting and great Processing software you need to learn programming as it is all done this way and is not graphical based or with a GUI as FF.

Here's an interactive online Reaction Diffusion generator I found at
http://pmneila.github.io/jsexp/grayscott/

It lets you paint on the fly during the generation in full screen mode then right click to have save screen option, in my case at 1920 x 1200. in just a few seconds (this is smaller for this post, lots of fun, with presets and the default preset has some symmetry to it.

Here's another from same app with some custom settings and special technique after a couple of hours of playing. It's a a bit different look than most Reaction Diffusion.
please enlarge to see it's coolness.

yes SpaceRay that's my plan, to use full screen capture then vectorize to make any size.

Nice!

a very helpful "Loop Photoshop Actions" panel.
You can running any Photoshop actions x-number of times.
Any infos and download link on:
Photoshop + A Flash Plug-in: Loop Photoshop Actions
read the comments.
For CS6 or CC (!):

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Which basically says that all of the files relating to this panel need to be renamed in order to remove the space. So Iterate Actions becomes IterateActions. renamed the .jsx .swf .xml files and .assets folder which are installed in Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\Panels\Iterate Actions\content and the panel works fine

Its only work with actions in the "Default Actions"
Move or copy the selected action to the Default Actions.

Its a very good helper.

For the future - my wishes:I hope anywhere with script know-how can this make more comfortable: not only the "Default Action" folder and and with the ability to repeat a series of actions in a certain order.

Wolfgang

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Gewuerz a very helpful "Loop Photoshop Actions" panel. You can running any Photoshop actions x-number of times.

Great and well done, as you say is very helpful and useful for looping photoshop actions and I have tested it (changing all the files names so they do not include the space in the middle) and it works very well, and very easy and simple to use.

And being only to use actions that are inside the "Default actions" is not really a big problem, as you only have to copy the action inside the Default actions folder by drag and drop and that is all, then it will work.

Thanks very much for the panel

Also I have to say that you have some great, beautiful and amazing works done on your website, congratulations.

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marwyn I created once an action for PS CS3, after I saw the tutorial from Skybase on Vimeo

I have tried it and is very good and is well thought and made in 3 easy to follow steps with instructions, and the result you get is better than the action I have done myself.

Thanks very much for sharing it, great and useful

Here below is something I have done, for the example I needed to run the marwyn action 5 times (5 x 40 times) that means is repeated 200 times. The number of times depends totally on the source image you are using and how close the dots are and how bigger or smaller they are, or if you are using any other different shape

I want to put here that Rick Duim have made a Filter Forge filter based on this topic

Rick Duim filter

I wonder if there could be multiple ways to make these reaction diffusion patterns, as I think it would be needed to start from different source and maybe use some kind of formulae or maybe slightly different techniques to get these many varied patterns shown on this link

Reaction Diffusion Patterns google images search

And how to add a way to fill the interior of these beautiful patterns in the same way as shown on the colorful images of the first post on this thread

Also this other google images search with nice results

Reaction Diffusion Photoshop google images search

I am currently experimenting with other diffusion methods (ie using different components as a substitute for blur). I'll keep you posted. There are some promising angles (haha). I might post it here before releasing it for comments. The trouble with these types of filters is the long compute times in FF. Also here is a repost of the experimental filter in use (Derivative Median Diffusion and Picasso Redux).

Yeup, it's several hundred times faster to do this in Photoshop than in FilterForge for obvious reasons being that FilterForge just doesn't like cascades of bitmap components. Let alone, 1 bitmap component in FilterForge has a tendency to slow everything in the filter down significantly.

There are a bunch of dedicated reaction-diffusion programs out there which is more intended for science than art for example this: https://github.com/gollygang/ready

It won't let you export super resolution or for that matter is rather pretty technical but you can see there are a bunch of things you can try out and see how crazy it just gets.

If anyone is interested, I wrote an AppleScript for Mac Photoshop CS6 that automates the reaction diffusion process with 3 actions. The user is prompted for the file to diffuse and for the number of iterations.

I have found other interesting website about this

Syntopia
Generative Art, 3D Fractals, Creative Computing


Reaction-Diffusion Systems
August 8, 2012


Also is cool this video animation using this

Reaction-Diffusion Tip-Splitting Second-Order Sobel Filter

Rick Duim

Good artistic example of this cat, mixing your artistic and well done Picasso redux with image based reaction diffusion that gives this beautiful result.

Ah, seeing the cat at the sub-atomic level. Kiko swears he was alive the whole time...