Suds and Bubbles by ronviers

I haven't had time to grab this one yet, but it's definitely on my weekend list. Yer on a creative roll my friend, if I had half the vision you and some people seem to have, I'd be dangerous ha-ha.

jffe

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ronviers wrote: BTW, it wasn't vision, I stumbled onto the idea when I was trying to make lichens.

----Ha-ha, welcome to 3/4+ of my weird filters You and that redcap fellow just pick some obvious-ish stuff, well, it seems obvious after the fact ya know, ideas for kind of "everyday/real world filters" that a lot of us here should've picked up on long ago. I think volde has some similar stuff to your bubbles, but his are usually a hair over the top, like he has the reverse of the Stevie syndrome, (Stevie is mr. precise filter-wise, if his apartment is as clean as I suspect it is, I wish he was my roomate for that alone ha-ha, no offense man, just saying, precision, zoom in, cover exact territory, that's what I think of with Stevie's series-filters), volde will kill you with options and variety (in one filter) like no one this side of Zephos or any of the other top 5. Anyways, enough butt-kissing ha-ha, but you and redcap for sure I've noticed (I can't keep up with everyone, sheesh) are just nailing lots of fairly obvious ideas that we all shoulda had already. The closest to normal I seem to get, is a couple of weird frames, and maybe the pixel-ish stuff, and those are pretty basic really. Anyways, I look forward to checking out the new improved bubbles, and don't tell volde I said he was over the top, believe it or not, I don't want to discourage him, the guy makes insanely wild stuff, and we gotta have that too.

jffe

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StevieJ wrote: Only with glass filters.....house.....not a clean freak.....and knock-down-drag-outs every day lol....

----Admittedly, a snap judgement, but meant in fun eh.

jffe

Yes, yes! Much more realistic. Cool!

Thanks StevieJ, ScaryKitty and Carl,

The improvements really helped. It has been suggested that the suds could be used the clean the generate grunge filter.
I made the changes in a singe setting except for one break brought on by a cow farting into my air conditioner. She must have had a real rectum lock on the vent because the kittens mistakenly thought they were under attack.

Wow, variation 5 looks wild, cool stuff for sure and a half.

jffe

Steve - I have been working on the integration of the iridescence, I think I know exactly the look you have in mind, but I'm having a little problem getting it right. I am not giving up and if I get something that works I will let you know. Thanks

Try "Mad Scientist" experimentation with different blend modes, maximizing opacity to 100 on some of them, and maybe even using multiple layered blends to get it. You should be able to get it with one blend component.....but I may be wrong about that and may take a little more since you want it to "adhere" to the relief surface of the bubbles.....

That's it! you would not believe how many ways I have tried to mask out that gold covering
I will reevaluate all the presets with this new understanding and submit one less screwed up.
Thanks!

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ronviers wrote: I will reevaluate all the presets with this new understanding

----Don't even bother feeling mad/embarassed/etc. about that one, it took me soooo long to realize that the Saturation setting was screwing up all my texture filters ha-ha

jffe

I really can use this filter. I'll wait until you update it again.

Ok jffe I made the changes - reconfigured noise components for better performance, adjusted lighting and presets for more pleasant appearance and corrected soapy film variation control - and submitted the update. I ended up leaving the dangling gamma invert - even though it should be removed when it came time to delete it I couldn't. Even though my eyes tell me not to use it as a specstrength map my intuition keeps telling me that I should. I have a lot of dissonance about that component, I must have plugged and unplugged it two dozen times, so I will let it dangle.
Thanks again

Now off to try to add iridescence again.

I think that is a great idea! I have been contemplating using the reposition rays snippet to add a user defined suds locus. The idea being that the origin of the rays could be used to define the origin of a spread pattern.

Thanks for the suggestion.

BTW, everyone should ignore the next update. I already have another one but FF does not allow me to place more than one in the queue so the old new one will have to clear.

Yeah, post it in either "Creating Filters" or the "User Gallery".....

Can't stop Ron.....he's a filter-making mad man!!! LOL....

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ronviers wrote: I wish I could take credit for it!

Oh, but you can.....it's all you.....and I'm only like Mikey just doing very little grinding work on "American Chopper"

Okay, I'm trying to ignore it LOL....

LOL, yes of course it is safe! I mean no, it's not safe; there will be another one out tomorrow. You may want to get this one too though because in tomorrow’s version several of the controls have been eliminated. Plus this one is probably faster because it uses only one size of bubbles whereas in the next one I added another size. I also added the ability to taper the bubbles from top to bottom. This will be the last release for a while, I am all bubbled out.

I guess on a slow filter like this one the presets become all the more important. I did not think of that. Before I submit the new one tonight I will add some additional presets.

Thanks Persidio

So this is another update? Will they all have a clear background? Hope so.

This really is a great filter.

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Will they all have a clear background? Hope so

Hi ahimsa
I guess I should add a non-image option to the next update; possibly with a user definable background color too. Thanks for the suggestion.

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50/50 seems reasonable

Sorry, too late. I will add a better mix next time.

Thanks jffe - Now that I think about it, I completely agree – who better than the designer to have insight on configuring presets. I will be better about that in the future.

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