Blobby by Skybase

Cool, interesting, weird and beautiful artistic effect you have done here, good idea and well done.

Curious effects can be done with selected images, for example here is a Zebra through this filter

1 - The Blobby effect using preset 4
2 - After this is put on a diet using preset 2
3 - Or you can also give a fractal artistic diet using preset 5
4 - This is a curious and also interesting effect using custom settings and reducing iterations to 1

Although not always is the same as using the the preset 4 or 6 gives nearly the same result, probably because these are using the "invert" checkbox activated.

By the way I like how the filter is possible to simplify much the original source photo in the one with transparent background that has sharp and defined edges VS the white background one that have like some slightly glow edges

and the same as the above one here but using preset 2 with some hot volcano lava and like how the result looks

And here is another peeling paint texture (seen at the left) and using preset 2 got this unusual organic effect that looks very good and is very different from the original source image

And here is a conversion using custom settings to get this nice abstract result

and this Red Gerbera Flower with Black and white background that looks like white cotton with black ink shades

Fun tip: the structure of this filter is applicable for many different effects using the iterator. Since the structure basically averages numbers you can try different distortions on a per iteration basis. For example: try rotating the image per iteration (super simple). Also try: geometric means. Multiply result with the previous result for every iteration, then replace the divide node with the root node. Set the degree to the number of iterations (try experimenting with different values. It can result in pretty fun stuff.)

Other tips: values for distortions need to be relatively small. The method I'm using doesn't use the position node to create values that equally distribute between each other. (This method honestly is faster as iteration counts go up. It simply doesn't need additional calculations.)

I take it these kinda sound technical... but they're just... simple modifications!

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Skybase For example: try rotating the image per iteration (super simple). Also try: geometric means. Multiply result with the previous result for every iteration, then replace the divide node with the root node. Set the degree to the number of iterations (try experimenting with different values. It can result in pretty fun stuff.)

OH Yes! I understand it all very well, super simple and super easy,

BUT really this is easy to understand for skilled, experienced and with good knowledge of filter forge as a lot of you already are and can understand it very easily, but not like me that I still have to learn a lot of FF and is still struggling to get something done.

This remembers me in some way what happens in the Big Bang Theory TV series when Sheldon try to explain things to Penny as they are very easy to understand for him and also for his other physics friends but not for Penny or any other not involved with complex physics.

Or also like when I try to explain something about using Windows to my mother, and for me is something super simple, basic and easy, but not for her that have a basic knowledge of how windows works,

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Skybase I take it these kinda sound technical... but they're just... simple modifications!

Yes, sorry, thatthis sounds technical, at least for me, even if thy are simple modifications and easy to do for some good filter forgers

Please, do not get me wrong, it is NOT your problem at all, and it is just a joke I wanted to put, is not at all your fault, and you do not have to explain everything for everyone, and of course that I am not asking that you change they way you explain things, is it is only me that I still do not have enough experience to understand it, although I am trying to learn, and with time and practice I will do it.