Cube Wall by ThreeDee

WOW!!! This is really cool, and awesome and amazing work!! Love it much

Sorry, that I still can´t believe that this really CAN be done in FF, I of course are using it already but is so special and great that I do not feel like it is real, it is too jawdropping for me

Thanks really very much for making this beauty and great work.

Fr om my point of view it has a great potential and many possible different uses and can be used with or without images, and when using without images it can be later added a overlay image using blend modes in Photoshop so it is all over the cubes like a film proyected image, like for example this one here below that is done the overlay in photoshop en the image goes over everything instead of only on the front of the cube



SOME POSSIBLE ADVICE AND/OR HINTS AND TIPS?

It would be good also to know if have some advice and hints or tips for this filter to be able to get the most out of it and use it in the best way, because I find some of the settings a little weird or confusing at first (perhaps because my fault that I have just used it only a few minutes) and would be better to know fr om the expert that made it.

SOME OF THE BEAUTIFUL PRESETS

I like mostly all the presets, but here is only a few









I have seen that there are some presets that does not have sharp and defined edges and are soft an and also have great visible jagging pixel edges on the cubes borders, and using a higher antialias it keeps the same and does not get better


Here is one example wh ere can be seen



I will try to experiment and try more to see it better and why and when happens

Below is just a quick test using preset 8 and have found this too in the reduced view, BUT then when using the "Actual view" it is seen much better and without the jaggies seen in the reduced view

Again thanks really very much for making and sharing this filter, like it much

Feels like what's feeding into the lookup component is the culprit. I donno, it's a challenge to properly make sharp extrusions on a 2D surface.

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SKybase Feels like what's feeding into the lookup component is the culprit. I donno, it's a challenge to properly make sharp extrusions on a 2D surface

BUT, it seeems that it only happens in the reduced size and not when rendering the final image in real size, so perhaps is not a problem of the components and the feeding, as it would be the same in both cases and not only in the reduced view.

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I hate to poke a whole in this one but one detractor is the fact that only a portion of the image is used. I fiddled with it real quickly by adding a scale component imediatly after the image component and setting it for .75 this seemed to fix this issue and allow the entire source image to be utilized

YES, same as you I do not like to poke and enter into filters and break the usage recording of the filter that the author would get but sometimes it may be needed, because as you say, the filter does not use the whole image you load and sometimes this is not good, so I will try what you have suggested and see how it works, and I agree that it would be a good suggestion to add this scaling of the source image and upgrade it so it can be used it from factory filters and not as a modified one.

Here is another example I have done

And this is the same as the one above when you uncheck the "image" checkbox

And here is using the unchecked iamge checkbox from above and then in Photoshop added one layer above with the texture using "Multiply" blend mode and then also modify the result with "curves" and "levels" and got this

as you can see here the texture covers everything, including all the sides of the cubes.

And then after using the model above here and then in Photoshop added one layer above with the texture using "Multiply" blend mode and then also modify the result with "curves" and "levels" (I use adjustment layers for this) and got this that shows better the edges slightly of all the cubes.

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ThreeDee Suggestion: Try using overlay mode and putting the image below the cubes layer

Oh, yes, is true that is a possible good idea too, and also can get good and different results in this other way, thanks.

here below is an example using the blue cubes shown here below



with overlay blend mode over the texture (layer below in Photoshop) and modifying the image lighting with adjustment layers

with a little bit of trial and error I was able to get all the controls to align so the end result always worked

--I should probably put this kind of time and effort in my own filters but my own filters are not near as good as threedee's

This kind of filters is one of the things I love about FF and that can not be found anywhere else

By the way the Ampergram website link above does not work anymore and have been disabled