Filter Forge - Turbulence swirls in FF?

CorvusCroax

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Since my last couple of 'is this possible' questions seemed to create some interesting discussions and techniques, I thought I'd try another one.

So, do people hav any good techniques for creating the appearance of turbulent flows? That is Clouds, coriolis swirls, swirling fluids, things like that. I've noticed that in particular, cloud effects in the FF filters thus far have a perlin noise kind of look, which could look a lot better w/ some swirlification.

Looking for something that could maybe swirl a source into something like this:
Any ideas?

Posted: November 20, 2008 4:58 pm

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CorvusCroax

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Some more source images:

Posted: November 20, 2008 5:09 pm

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KGtheway2B

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Here's a nifty marbled paper filter which somewhat resembles a few of your examples: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5475.html

Posted: November 20, 2008 10:13 pm

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Kraellin

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noise distortion and perlin noise shld give you some of that.

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Posted: November 20, 2008 10:35 pm

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ThreeDee

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My immediate idea would be to take the 'spiral' filter offset maps and run them through a perlin noise refraction or offset, then use that output as the offset maps for the image.

Posted: November 21, 2008 3:08 am

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CFandM

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Thats what I was thinking there 3d...Fast Spiral would be good for this.
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6027.html
Swirls and Abstracts is one for strange swirls...Might be helpful...

Also if you use maybe a scatter object filter on that swirl it might give some more control over it....

Fast spiral+Offset Test.ffxml

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Posted: November 21, 2008 5:49 am

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CFandM

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Heres another version using tiling with the swirl...

Fast spiral+Offset Test2.ffxml

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Posted: November 21, 2008 7:51 am

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ThreeDee

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An awfully slow, overly complex and rather unelegant method. But at least it's got twirls.

Twirlies Test.ffxml

Posted: November 21, 2008 1:42 pm

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Kraellin

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didnt voldemort do a swirls filter? i'd check his filters.

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Posted: November 21, 2008 4:30 pm

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jffe

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No offense to anyone, like really no offense, but Sjeiti already did a cool colored swirls filter that you could probably tweak to get these looks. smile:)

jffe

P.S. Like the original example could probably be done by just adding some distortion to Sjeiti's filter is all I meant, not the many other google image examples of course. (Trying to not like offend anyone really, just saying a lot of the work of these looks has been done by an FF master already is all.)

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Posted: November 21, 2008 4:35 pm

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CFandM

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Kraellin wrote: didnt voldemort do a swirls filter? i'd check his filters.

Well heres some other filters with swirls... smile;)

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6104.html
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1788.html
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1768.html
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5146.html
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5131.html

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Posted: November 21, 2008 4:49 pm

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Indigo Ray

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jffe wrote: Sjeiti already did a cool colored swirls filter that you could probably tweak to get these looks

How's this? I took Sjeiti's vintage spiral wallpaper and made a few changes near the end. I added a control for step blur (to make it more like Corvus's original picture), repeat (the steps), and distortion/distortion scale controls.

Vintage spiral swirl.ffxml

Posted: November 22, 2008 9:23 am

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Indigo Ray

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Here's a sample:

Posted: November 22, 2008 9:25 am

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ThreeDee

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Interesting byproduct of an experiment.

Posted: November 22, 2008 2:45 pm

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CorvusCroax

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jffe wrote: P.S. Like the original example could probably be done by just adding some distortion to Sjeiti's filter is all I meant, not the many other google image examples of course. (Trying to not like offend anyone really, just saying a lot of the work of these looks has been done by an FF master already is al

Just to clarify: in the original post I'm looking for ways to take an image or input, and bend it into turbulence-like swirls. ie take something and swirl it. Not looking for just swirls their own. As jffe points out, there are lots of ways to do that.

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ThreeDee wrote: An awfully slow, overly complex and rather unelegant method. But at least it's got twirls.

Cool... It is pretty complicated. It looks good w/ the perlin noise background. If you put it

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ThreeDee wrote: Interesting byproduct of an experiment.

Hey, that's fun!

Posted: November 22, 2008 5:21 pm

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CorvusCroax

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CFandM wrote: Thats what I was thinking there 3d...Fast Spiral would be good for this. http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6027.html Swirls and Abstracts is one for strange swirls...Might be helpful... Also if you use maybe a scatter object filter on that swirl it might give some more control over it.... Fast spiral+Offset Test.ffxml

Ah, that's more like it...

Hmm...Maybe if we tried it to make it more symmetrical, and get rid of the checker effect.

Here's a fun accidental outcome, which looks sort of mayan-architectural:

Posted: November 22, 2008 5:24 pm

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CorvusCroax

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Here's the file

ZZ_Fast spiral+Offset Test2.ffxml

Posted: November 22, 2008 5:31 pm

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ThreeDee

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CorvusCroax wrote: Just to clarify: in the original post I'm looking for ways to take an image or input, and bend it into turbulence-like swirls. ie take something and swirl it. Not looking for just swirls their own.

Here's the best I could do with that. It's kinda like it but not really.

Posted: November 22, 2008 6:19 pm

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ThreeDee

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With a perlin noise.

Posted: November 22, 2008 6:28 pm

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ThreeDee

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With soft-edged circle.

Posted: November 22, 2008 6:46 pm

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CFandM

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Gotta love experimenting smile:D

Well as far as the checker effect I tried out my seamless tile concept filter to get rid of that...Then a little blur on the final output before connecting to the distortion..Not quite fast at the start but....Heres a pict of that..