Q-Rotor by Ramlyn

You really make some very beautiful and unique filters. Congratulations.

Hey Ram ... you try more than your best, you create beautiful stuff ! This one is like those I like. Another cup of tea ! Continue my friend.

Sure I will like them. I'll let you know.

I have a lot of filters that I did not finished since FF6. I will work on this and will upload them.

I had missed this excellent and well done filter that gives this perfect and lovely Op Art, and you had the patience to duplicate each time and rotate carefully each one to get the frames correctly positioned.

Awesome work

Here is showing how when you duplicate the amount using the size/Pixels and using a corresponding resolution in New Image setting, it will create perfect seamless patterns

I had the idea that as it is done in FF, it could also be used your awesome and carefully done work to make one of the stripes filled with images, and as the shape is built, the best option is the white ones

I have added a color control and rotated manually the output each one of 18 white lines so it would like realistic and true

or this one

If you replace the color control and use a vertical Spectrum component the rotation of the 18 stripes is also applied and you get this

Going back to your original default filter, you have the option in the color control to put a color 1 or color 2, so I have actiavted the allow images in color control (as it only allows plain colors) and loaded the result from my Warp filter shown here above and put it on Color 1

Here is not rotated the colors as they are just overlay and replace the white stripes color

or another texture with a amethyst gem stone

although if you want to use the well done and great tiling of this filter, you need to use a seamless texture, because if not it will happen like this here that the 4 squares are badly joined

and now I put here the filter I have modified for you to test

Sorry that I did not upload correctly the filter

Please, if wanted more information, read the about tab included in the filter

Here it is available below for FF 9 with 53 presets

Now the color control allows to load images and the bits related to each of the stripes will be rotated accordingly, as shown above.

1 - IMPORTANT I have to say that the option of modifying the Polygon sides, will ONLY work sometimes, as it will break the filter in some of the presets, and is better used as a single shape, or with some of the Particle modes 3-8 options

2 - IMPORTANT 2 - If you activate the Single shape, it will ONLY show the single shape and you can not change the Particle select

3 - The Spectrum component if activated will replace the Color control 1, so you need to change the color 2 as you want and need

4 - If you want you can also try to use my own Spectrum Warp into unknown lines that is also included, BUT you can only use it if you replace in the filter editor the Spectrum component with the result of the blend mode that is near, BE AWARE that this will add a lot of new additional setting to the filter, so this is why I did not connect it by default.

Q-Rotor Color with images.ffxml

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Ramlyn wrote: I worked on your base, making this different version.

Thanks very much, for considering the suggestions I made and you did like to add the other features and have made a great update and well done update from my filter and is better than mine and with the new presets that are well done. Glad it was useful.

Although I think that it would be good also to have some of the black and white presets you had on your original filter.

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SpaceRay wrote: Having the chance to use different polygons would be nice, but for every different polygon you would need completely different settings, if you really want that they match like I did with the squares. Then it may not be possible in 1 single filter.

Of course I have already seen that to have different polygons IF you want to be able to have more than one single shape is not possible and I did not want that you made it

As far as I know the only way to make it in one single filter is by only allowing to have just one single shape.

here is what I mean that for me is wrong if the right side is facing to the left

Here is the version with the right side flip but as you can see it appears a spike shape when central and right triangles are combined, so as said above, this is bad for me.

Here I am using some different designs I have made using the awesome Circular Reasoning filter by Rachel Duim.

Instead of the triangle and using your original default square design but with Individual Colors for each stripe and made it tiling into a fractal style using the awesome True pyramid tile by Voldemort

I think it is not possible to do the same thing with triangles instead of squares.

and here is the same one but using Rotate to rotate the 2 triangle combination to avoid having the "spike" as seen here

but this, for the triangles example above, you can not use rotate because what is wanted is to flip the orientation of the right side to the left, and this can not be done using rotate unless I may be missing something

Using your own default filter preset 1 but additionally using the True pyramid tile by voldemort with a 5000x5000 you get this

Here is the filter for the above example that uses the original filter unmodified

Q-Rotor Square tiling fractal.ffxml