Origami/Tangram filter suggestion

Why Origami?
1. Simple geometrics
2. Iconic images
3. Stylish
4. Attention-getting

Why Tangram?
Not your typical photo album page layout. See my website.

I hope the accompanying images make sense. The user does not draw the shapes. The user merely goes to the preset and opens one of their images in one of the shapes drawn by the filter design entries which make up the butterfly image. In my "A butterfly" example, there are 8 predrawn shapes that can be filled with user images.

WOW!! very nice and very good idea. Looks beautiful and interesting.

I think this could be probably done as it is not something complex (although I do ot really know from Filter forge filter creation point of view)

Perhaps you could put more examples to explain better and in more detail how the filter could be done and what to have in it.

it would be a very smple filter to build [ but still requiring time which I don't have ] here is a basic start to a way of building it.

Note: just a very quick throw together of a shape as a method example
quick way to get rid of background image [ without going to settings ]
you'd probly want to have ability to offset the images with in the shapes

anyway here is the simple method

butter ex.ffxml

here it is utilising offset of the image within the shape .......... this is a base to build the correct shapes you want

butter ex.ffxml

Carl-

Thanks for taking the time to show me the basics of creating the Origami Butterfly filter. I hope my graphics and your coding inspire someone who does have the time and knowledge to create such a filter or other filter designs using the same fill-in-the-shapes concept. I chose a butterfly because butterfly designs are very popular and requires just a few simple shapes. Cats and dogs, also very popular, also require just a few simple shapes when drawn in the Origami style.

I hope I didn't give you or anyone else the impression that I can create filters. I cannot. I just upgraded to Basic 3 which gives me all the utility I need for experimentation with my other software. I'm a user of tools, not a creator of tools. I enjoy experimenting to find new, creative ways of using tools that talented people such as you create.

At present, I am experimenting with the use of Filter Forge filters for video titling/credits, image overlays of frames, animation overlays of frames, frame filtering for effects. That's why I am so keen on the png format. I need transparency capability: I frequently drag png files over many frames of a video timeline just as I do with audio loops. A person can also apply envelopes to png frames (fade them in and out) much as one does with audio fading.

As soon as I am satisfied with what I am working on, I will post some videos on a suitable website showing what Filter Forge users can do with video software such as Sony Vegas and Serif Movie Plus using Filter Forge and transparent images.

I need to make some zzzz's now.

ah you don't have editing control ....... it doesn't look like your getting swamped with offers of help, so I'll spend a bit of time over the next couple of days and put something together

The stamp

The original image

Always looking for suggestions. Let me know what other unusual media I should scan, microphotograph and Filter Forge.

Ciao for now

and the filter

Butterfly Origami (1).ffxml

I want a horse. With a princess on it. With a frog on her shoulder. Holding a lollipop. Can you do that?

The Butterfly Origami filter made by Carl is really excellent and very well done well thought and very easy to use and configure the textures. Lovely

Here are some examples I have done

a orange one

And the last one

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Carl wrote: Beautiful examples SpaceRay

Thanks (the examples are in the previous page at the end if anyone wants to know)

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Morgantao wrote: I want a horse. With a princess on it. With a frog on her shoulder. Holding a lollipop. Can you do that?

I have a few questions, please could you be more specific and give more details

Please, what kind of horse you want ?

What color do you want the horse to be ? I mean what of the many horses breed avaible ?

What dress you want that the princess wear ? And which color and texture design ?
Or you want her to be naked ?

As said by Carl, which breed of frog did you want?

On the right shoulder or the left shoulder should be the frog?

How big you want the lollipop ?

Do you want the lollipop in one color or must it be multicolored ?

Who should be holding the lollipop, the frog or the princess?

Supossing that would be the princess, you did not tell in which hand should be the princess holding the lollipop?

Carl implored...

Is there a happy ending or do those pesky catfly destroy all chances of true love, or does my dead fish breath win Sophie over?

None of the above Carl. The fact is that I don't know if the sweet, innocent Sophie could ever be comfortable with someone even tangentially involved in the Dark Filter Arts.

I have seen your Grunge and Thrashed filters which disturbed me greatly. So much so, that I passed a long, sleepless night filled with 32 bit, True Color visions of the vulnerable Sophie being grunged and thrashed by some faceless, drawranged derelect.

Seeing such heinous acts have almost been too much for me to bear. I really don't care what they do to junk mail but I really don't know if I can handle seeing what they do to helpless newspaper and cardboard today at the recycling center. But go I must.

Ta, ta

It's because of the Vietnamese Mossy frog, isn't it?

Cute frog.