Van Gogh Flow by Darrell Plank

Wow, wow, wow! This is one of the best Van Gogh filters! Thank you so much

This is really a fantastic filter

winning!

lipebianc comment is perfect, IS REALLY VERY JAWDROPPING STUFF!!! COOL !!!

WOW !!! Awesome and excellently done with so much detail and love how it convert the colors into lots of different color shades and the flow is perfectly done is like liquid and gives a perfect effect.

And you have only done 2 filters ???? You are already an expert for making this kind of useful and beautiful filter and deserves to be in the best FF filters list, hall of fame of the filters.

A millon thanks for making this lovely effect.

Please, see this in FF 3.0 and choose the newer other image presets included and see how lovely they look !!!

ONE POSSIBLE SUGGESTION

When in the settings when the stroke size is at 100 is the biggest it can get, and probably you could get another version of the same filter where where now is 100, the size should be equal to 0 or 10 and then from there to 100, it could growing and getting more thicker and larger the little bits of strokes and so I think it will also give a great effect too and perhaps with the same technique used here have not only one excellent filter, but TWO !

SpaceRay - are you just asking for larger strokes? I think that's what you're saying and I think I'm constrained by the size that Bomber will let me make their inputs. Lowering the "Repeat" value makes for bigger strokes but more spread out. Sadly, bomber kind of insists that strokes in standard position not overlap which means that they can't get larger than the repeat factor allows them. They'll allow them to overlap when they've got H and V chaos so why they're such sticklers when the chaos is zero I don't really understand. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're asking for, though. In 3.0 I think you can remap to get larger strokes (you can remap the radius of the ellipse to be larger than 1.0) but I think it then ends up cutting off some of the strokes in bomber. I may experiment around a bit in 3.0 and see if I can't get something acceptable without cutting off "mid-stroke", so to speak.

BTW, I did a surface version of this filter where the strokes come out 3D for a kind of "impasto" version. I wish there was a way through parameters to turn on and off whether the output is a "surface" or not. As it is, if I want to submit this, it will have to be an entirely separate filter which I'm kinda embarrassed to do, but I may anyway.

I made a little mod of this by combining it with my Brush Strokes filter. It looks more like a traditional painting, but it's less stylistic.

I love it! Can hardly wait to use it. Thanks!!!

Well, even after I put in code so that the Lua only does arithmetic, the Mac people say it's still crashing on them. At this point there's not much I can do. If scripting can't even do basic arithmetic, then there's not much hope of doing scripting on the Macs at all. I apologize to all the Mac people. This may be doable using derivative components and maybe I'll give that a shot sometime but meanwhile the Mac people apparently need to steer clear. I really hope that the FF people look into whatever is causing Lua to fail so miserably on Macs. If they can give me a workaround, that would be great.

Sigh.

I do not know why I have not put any example using this awesome and amazing filter

Tiger head

And here is an artistic stipes composition with colors and texts

and other example of another part of the same image

the texts and textures in the background of this composition does not look very well after being done with this filter compared to the main image source of colors

and bigger to see it better

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Casper For some reason, FF crashes every single time I try to download this filter, and keeps crashing on restart until I manually delete the filter from the drive. Running newest version of FF. Anyone else having problems?

Can you download other filters? Does it only happen with this one?

There is no real reason why it would not be able to download one filter, unless there some problem in the LibraryStructure.xml and it is damaged.

Please, you can try also some of possible fixes available in my thread.

BEFORE Posting an error downloading FF filters PLEASE see this thread

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Darrell Plank wrote: SpaceRay - Glad you like it and thanks for the great examples!

Thanks to you and glad you like my examples

Here is one more that uses a detailed image where I have reduced the "size pixels" setting to half the original amount and got this from a photo of an old compass

@Darrell - yup, on a Mac =) I'll just wait for FF to come up with a patch or something. Thanks for your help, and keep up the good work! =D

@SpaceRay - yeah, only problems with this one filter, thought it was best to ask at the source, but I'll take your advice to heart =)

I'll give it a shot skybase. Thanks. Is that using the derivative operator? I was thinking that ought to work but hadn't looked into it seriously.

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Inujima did a small replacement using emme's little "rotation" trick a while ago on a separate forum. The version does not use LUA and the results are pretty much the same. So if FF is going crashy-doodda on you just use that.

I'm sorry that was an error: the work does NOT use emme's stuff, this is all Inujima rework alone. I apologize.

Emme happened to produce a similar method only it dealt with two gradients, a derivative and a lookup component. Thought that was pretty cleaver too.

Either way, yes it uses the derivative operator.

Not at all, SpaceRay - nice stuff. I've got some variations in mind myself as soon as I get a teeny bit of time. Thanks for the acknowledgement!

Okay, I finally incorporated inujima's changes so this should work for Mac users now. Thanks inujima! I sent mail to ask permission for this but never heard back so hopefully he (she?) is okay with this. I think inujima's name is on there as author also. I wanted to update the original filter rather than open up a brand new one so that people who are pointed to that one get the update. Bonus - it's much faster as well which isn't surprising since we're now using Filter Forge's native routines rather than LUA script. Also, I'm going to put in an "Impasto" version here in a bit which will make the strokes "three dimensional". It's not a replacement - just a (slower) variation on this filter.