YinYang by ronviers

I really like this one. Maybe include transparent background so people can make web buttons ect. Also oditty occurs when you do perfect white vs. black, the black dot is light blue?

I should be working but the dots were driving me crazy. I added the knockout and there is a new look for the dots. They blend differently and better maintain their respective colors.

And here is the new lead

Ok, I have added the background removal button and made the centers a little better.

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Redcap wrote: Also oditty occurs when you do perfect white vs. black, the black dot is light blue?

I don't know. Black and white seems to bring out all its imperfections. I know you know to check saturation under lighting and that is the only thing I could thing of. If you can reproduce it please post a sample and I will track it down. Thanks again for the suggestions.
Here is the new lead for comparison.

I have submitted another version that should post on Monday. But since then I have made an ever newer won that should post on Tuesday. I think the new new one is much better then the new one. I added a new mode the uses a trick I learned from Richard Bartlett's beautiful SpaceGen filter. Here is a sample:

The symbols that use the new colors are considerably slower but could be worth it for some people.

I spent countless hours trying every sphere snippet in the library. I spent more time you yours than anyone else's. I just could not get it to work out.

I just took a look at the internals, if you don't mind keeping the size fixed you could just toss in the circular arc profile bit to use just for the height map.

Not a biggie though, it looks alright on its own.

(But seriously, take a second to clean things up in there )

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Carl wrote: your going to have to make an opal filter

Maybe eyes.

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Betis wrote: There's not enough filter!

But I added nearly twenty presets - that's a lot of presets.

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KGtheway2B wrote: clean things up in there

I unplugged most of the unused stuff in the newest one. I left one mul blend but it was balancing everything else. This filter is all about balance.

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KGtheway2B wrote: I just took a look at the internals

Thanks for taking a look. I think I will move on, I already spent way too much time on it.

Oh, by "not enough filter," I meant not enough of the important part, which is the yin and yang.

To me it is just too bright but if I drag it to my crt it looks ok - not great but ok.

Here is one where I drove the saturation up in Lab and hit it with some gamma. It advantage to this version it that it has a brightness control so users can choose.

Ok, I have submitted it with a brightness control. Now the users can decide just how much yin and yang is right for them.

Thanks Betis

The new new new one is here! Be sure to delete the one in your local library or you will not get the latest one. You will be able to tell because the new one has a brightness control. Happy YinYanging

nice, ron

How does a sphere not work? Don't take that offensively, I'm actually curious.

The solution is probably going to look very simple but without really knowing what I'm doing, it was just a crapshoot.

This might be a little better, I tailored it so that at least the Sphere curve works, although it doesn't get rid of those little... things, I think those are going to stay there no matter what, it's what the black line does.

Anyway, here is my "fixed" version of the one you posted, I hope it's aim for the direction you were.

I also added a slider that lets you make the circle any size (from 50% to 100%).



sphTst_fixbetis.ffxml

Hehe, No problem. I hope that fixed what you were trying to fix.

Does that decrease the black line around each dot?

Usually I'm not able to get things to work exactly the way I plan, but in the case of the dot blend I got it just the way I wanted. The large dots with large falloff works well for the opal colored ones while the sharper falloff works better for the solid color ones.
I am very happy with the surface maps too. I think they give it a very nice look without overwhelming it with reflections.
Like you mentioned, it's not perfect, and probably never will be by its nature, but I'm ok with how it turned out. In a way it's better that it is small because the opal colored ones take a long time to render and the users can always bump up the resolution if they are willing to wait or have a lot of horsepower.
Thanks again, it would not be nearly as nice without your help.

YinYang.ffxml