Birth of The Orb by ronviers

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Sara McLachlin

Jammin to Blur,, The Darkness and Sugarbabes (all britsh groups) over here... heading back to FF to create...

BBL

Hmmm I don't know any of those band Persidio. There are no radio stations in my area and my budget for new music is zero so I pretty much listen to what I already have - most of which i'm tire of. For some reason I just don't get tired of Sarah. I guess I have a crush on her.

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Persidio wrote: all britsh groups

Yeah, I recently heard "Fly Me Away" and "You Don't Know" by Goldfrappe on London Live.....recorded them with DVR and listened to them over and over since.....

Forgot.. if anyone listens to music at Imeem... use headphones... the quality of the music better

thanks, ahimsa, foxxee, ronviers, carl, jean, and steve

ron, the offset shld move the image within the orb... unless i got it wrong. but, i did test it at least once, so it shld work. the only purpose was to be able to center your image within the orb/geode. the tweak isnt perfect. it would be nice to refine it a bit more so that the colors of the image done shine so much on the inside of the orb/geode. a little would be ok, since the original orb tends to shine. so, having a bit of shine coming off an imported image would be ok. i just didnt have a lot of time this morning to tweak it up better and wanted to show you the possibility.

ok, i checked the offset. it works fine. notice in this one i simply moved her left and down a bit, all with the offset controls.

That's the best one yet. You know, if you don't mind, I think I will release a separate version that has the image option. I think that is a great idea.

Whew that was too close... I accidently posted this in the other orb thread.

Preset 13 with the settings adjusted. Ron this filter is a hoot to play with and had to stop myself. Not sure how well it turned out but here it is...

A final gloss of Flaming Pears Gloss and Aetherize~

Cliff Dwellers

The orb looks into the past~

Click to view larger image~

Oh I could keep playing with this filter... I think you have an HU here because the filter is very hard to put down and back away from.

I see you are having great fun with the new found quote button!!

LOL

Thanks for the links ahimsa, I'm going to wait until the end of the month to download them but it looks like that is going to be my new direction.

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ahimsa wrote: I have been playing with this filter

Post anything cool you conjure up and let me know if you think of changes I should make.

And its counterpart

Fresh day and it still looks WOW if my vote had any power.....

1 vote for Editor's Pick

that second one looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. 'what is it doctor?' 'i dont know, but it's opening!'

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Kraellin wrote: but it's opening!

Maybe I should try to find an H. R. Giger alien fetus to stick in one of them – that would be cool.

BTW Kraellin I intended to credit you in the description with the idea for adding the image but forgot. I have said it before; giving credit where credit is due is a particularly easy thing to forge. I will follow up Tuesday with the proper description.

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Kraellin wrote: my royalty check

reality check? I don't know how to write reality checks.

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I don't know how to write reality checks.

ROYALTY check. we'll check your reality. just put down a one with lots of zeros after it.

ah, that last one....kryptonite!

also, one thing that's been bugging me on this filter; you've got some sort of sudden glass thing going on at the bottom of the 'geode'. it seems inconsistent with the rest of the orb/geode. in the sphere, at the bottom, it just suddenly goes from rock to glass. any way to remove that or change it back to rock?

Nice!

((Shiver))

Just saw the Alien Fetus!

Creepy... makes me think of Alien Movies... Sigorney Weaver (sp?) would be proud...


LOL

Maybe a bit of a gooey shine to define the shape of that adorable little baby

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Kraellin wrote: any way to remove that or change it back to rock?

Ok Kraellin, I can remove it or turn it to stone. The problem with removing it is that, IMHO, that is suffers aesthetically. The reason I say that is that there is nothing linear about the base. I can whack it off (threshold), even in sophisticated (non-spherical) ways but it still leaves the orb floating when the shape says it should be landlocked.
The problem with turning either the base and or the outer shell of the orb to stone is that the level of complexity internally shoots up but more importantly the filter becomes much more difficult to control. It changes from being a filter where it is hard to find a user defined state that is not pleasant, to one where the acceptable states are rare and require a lot of tweaking.
The current configuration with the base a non-obtrusive abstract ‘place’ for the orb to exist may be the best way to do it. That said it is difficult for me to be objective about it and is why your opinion is so valuable.

Thanks

((Better))

I wasn't a fan of the bottom. (((((Much better in the pic above)))))

This is one of the best filters ever made~

I can't wait for the update on Monday!! Update on Monday right?

You know I was thinking...

when we do get free copies... and we will because we'll all get 3 HU's...

you should make an orb two of this and change the outter texture and structure of the globe~ What do you think?