Mirror across Y axis?

Uberzev has " Any Angle Rotate v1.1 " I think there is a mirror snippet but I can't recall what it was called, maybe if you did a search for "mirror"

Voldemort has a great filter called "Split Mirrir". Attached is an image of the 'business end' of the mirroring. The trick is to use offset, with half of the image being 50% gray, and the other half being white.

Honestly, I have no idea why this works... I guess I don't understand the fundamentals of the offset node. Why would offsetting something by 50% have the result of mirroring it? (Shrug)

Thanks Carl,

So, why do you need the Profile Gradient step? Why not just use offset?

BTW: can you explian why the offset works to mirror ?

How the heck do you figure that stuff out?

I actually masked 1/2 the screen first, then used a method quite similar to Carl's. "Why" it works ? No idea, I just kept looking at it and thinking what am I working with, o.k., half the original image, so I started off masking half the image then it just clicked literally in like a minute from there. Weird how solving graphics problems can be like that, you really just havta get into a headspace to figure out, what am I working with and what part of that is the goal. I enjoyed this challenge, it took me like 45 minutes of really using my brain (unlike the usual 2-3 hours and only getting halfway there trying to cop some Sjeiti licks ha-ha) and really odd that there does not appear to be a simple mirror-this-image snippet or filter in the whole library ?

jffe

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Sjeiti wrote: Wouldn't this be easier?

LOL yours use more components

to be able to select either mirror left or right side you would need two more components in your filter, unless you open - unplug - plugin - close each time as one of your branches is not plugged in....... hmmmm

Here's the filter:

Mirror f1g.ffxml

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Carl wrote: to be able to select either mirror left or right side you would need two more components in your filter

Well in what I posted yes, but I just put the other one in there to show how it works. If I'd add controls for flipping and rotating it would look like this.

mirror.ffxml

Well... sometimes... but in this case, I don't understand in your posted filter, how that profile gradient (with two even colors) can offset the image the way it does. I see it, but I ... oh wait... I think I get it... yours has seamless tiling turned off. So with seamless tiling turned off, the offset image is flipped. But with seamless tiling turned on, the offset image is the same. That's weird... I wonder why that is.

You mean the Kraellin who claims to be god, right?

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Sjeiti wrote: You mean the Kraellin who claims to be god, right?

LMDO


I hadn't even thought of the tiling changing it