Stylized Wood by ronviers

Stylized Wood by ronviers
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7347.html

Thank you Craig
The reliability of Variations takes a bit of a hit due to the mode selector but some of the best looks are there so I had do leave it in - and at around two seconds, the user has plenty of opportunity to hit variations.

basically, the 'size, pixels' slider is little more than a zoom control, or shld be. it basically scales on a global level. so, if your default there was done at max size (all the way to the right), then moving the slider left would shrink the whole proportionally.

the 'scale' control on other components is there so one can do local changes and not just global. so, i guess, just figure out which way you want to go on it, yes, no?

how bout a little red oak?

hi ron,

i was just playing with the size, pixels slider while in the editor. i had never noticed before, but when you move the slider left, EVERYTHING changes in the component thumbnail views. so, that slider is truly global.

also, if you wanted to change the global size even more than with the size, pixels slider, add one of the zoom/shrink snippets (though i dont think you need it).

and actually, if you look at some of the texture sites, we have too few wood textures. i can think of about 50 more we could add with no duplication of any others.

and i meant it when i said i wouldnt change a thing. it's a very good filter!

oh, and having looked at the guts on this one, i liked how you used the profile gradient. i would never have thought of doing it that way. very clever

Still less than five seconds, so I could even make it a shiny floor texture.

hehe, you know you'll be back before that

wood inlays are a great idea!

Getting some strange artifacting, I guess coming through the kaleidoscope. I do not have any real experience with the kaleidoscope so I have know idea what to do about it.

I would post the filter but I am separating the kaleidoscope gradient in what must be the stupidest way in the history of the universe, so I want to try to streamline it a little before anyone sees it.

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Kraellin wrote: tighten the grain a bit

You have expensive tastes. You realize those tropical hardwoods cost a lot more and logging the rain forests is bad for the environment.
But I will see what I can do.

It looks kinda like a hardwood quilt, very interesting. To get rid of kaleidescope artifacts I usually just turn off the anti-aliasing. *shrug*

jffe

careful on the reflections, ron. too much and it's no longer wood. nice design

Thanks Craig and jffe -

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jffe wrote: might be interested in seeing some of your designs

I got the impression from his site that he just deals with the very wealthy. I don't think he would even hold his monocle up to my filters.

I thought of a way to fix the artifacting with a tiny blur - it doesn't add much to the render time.

Here are the three wood options, well, two are really light options, but I added a new, /per Craig, hardwood option.

Soft Light:

And the new hardwood option.

ah, there we go; a hardwood option! great

and thanks for the filters. one thing on those, make them separate names or separate version numbers when you post on the forums. i like to save all copies (actually, i just add an extra number to the file name, so it's not a big deal).

Here is the filter after I plugged in the kscope nodes.

afterKscope.ffxml

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Kraellin wrote: i like to save all copies

Are you a collector of things? Stamps? Coins? Cars? Or is it just a ff thing? How many filters do you have?

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ronviers wrote: Six colors? A person would have to be crazy to try six.

Hmm Six Colors you say..
You could even make some cool looking shields with that..
Good stuff.

Btw, I decided to ask the block noise question in the 'problems' forum.

oh, and you asked about how many filters i have. here's a screenshot of my windows report on the 'my filters' folder. bear in mind that there are a couple of old backups in sub-folders, so subtract a thousand or two

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Kraellin wrote: i worked on the 'beforeKscope'. not sure what you were going for, but i changed a couple things and sped things up a hair, i think. i also added a shapes scale control just for more variety.

I added a shape size for a while but I think it may be better to use a constrained portion of the block's scale to control shape - they would get more shapes that way.

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Kraellin wrote: how you arrange your components

I don't do much arranging until I submit it - if I remember.

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Kraellin wrote: sped things up a hair

You definitely sped it up but you took out the high pass. So you like it better without the high pass? For a while, I had a control so it could be turned down to zero but I decided that no one would ever set it to zero so I took it out. I guess in real life there is zero or almost zero signs of separation between the pieces, but in my opinion, it looks better with a small radius high pass.
What are you doing with the alphas? I do not understand how you are using those?
You turned off aa but left in the blurs. Did you mean to do that? I think the blurs are a small price to pay for aa.

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Kraellin wrote: 380 megs in 4616 files

Holy buckets! That’s four times as many as me – and I thought I had a *lot*.
Most of mine are from when ff was crashing and I got in the habit of making too many saves. I love it now that it does not crash.

Btw, thanks for taking the time to dig into it. I know how difficult it is to dig into someone else's filter.

I added a switch to toggle the pattern-shapes-grain option.

Straight grain:

Thunder storm - later.