Stacked Swirl by CFandM

Nice idea!
Good filter.

To be sincere, when I saw the thumbnail of the filter, I thought they were two branches or two tentacles covered of thorns. Ha! Ha!
Then, I went to the filter page and I saw... the truth.

( Two tentacles could be a god idea too for a filter )

Oh! Nice. It could become another good filter.

Yes, SpaceRay, I guess you are busy. No new filters from you recently.
Same for me. I did nothing new this period ( I only posted 2-3 filters made many months ago ).
( By the way, I sent you an email. Got it? )

Thanks Sharandra..Its another many purpose filter..

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Ramlyn Wrote: Oh! Nice. It could become another good filter. smile;)

When I get a chance this will be the next one to submit..

Thanks SR...

This is really great, now I have been able to test it and like much all the possible options. very good and well use of the loop component

Please, would be possible that you could be so kind to explain how it works and how you have used the loop component so I (and possibly many others) could understand and learn how it works as you surely know well how to use it

Thanks very much

Possible ideas and suggestions that are ONLY ideas and you are totally free to do it if you want or not, you decide, as it is your filter, I could do it myself but I do not know how unless youc ould be able to explain how it works.

I do not know if these suggestion would make the filter much more complex or not

1 - Be able to have each of the arms with different images, so it would have 2 source images, one for each arm

2 - Be able to have 2 source images but interwoven on both arms, I mean that in each arm it would be image 1 and then after image 2 and then again image 1 and so on

3 - The same as number 2 but instead of 2 source images, to have 4 alternated images in each arm

4 - Now there is 2 arms, and I wonder if it could be perhaps possible to also have the option to have 3 and 4 arms.

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CFandM wrote: Here is the above version with some color and design....

Thanks very much for sharing this other version that is also very good and nice

I am seeing right and this version has 5 arms instead of the 2 on the original version?

as shown on this image here where is shown 5 arms with numbers

Well I don't have much time for any mods of this filter but have at it...

Its the scale and rotate in the loop that affect this......Just open up the filter and play with those settings and watch what happens to the final render....

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CFandM wrote: Its the scale and rotate in the loop that affect this......Just open up the filter and play with those settings and watch what happens to the final render....

Well, I have done it and I have tested that is true that modifying the scale main and rotate main you can change from 1 arm to 5 arms (or even 6 perhaps), but the scale is much less important than the rotate main for this, as is the most important to get the effect and changing it very slightly the rotation main value, changes much the result.

Thanks for the advice and now I can use it more

So now I need to discover how the images are processed and distributed to change them, will try to find out later.

Now here is the same loop with a blend added and the ellipse attached to that so it stays in one place when going through the iterations....Compare the Loop Design2 and 3 to understand movement....You could even replace the offset with a rotate or scale to understand how the loop works in general.....

Loop Design 3.ffxml

So with the Loop Design 1 with only a couple of things in the loop you can get some interesting results.....

i have seen the filters you have done some days ago and forgot to give a great thnaks for making them, and be able to learn in this good way, now I will study and analyse more what you have done and try to use ir myself

That was a bug in FF that was fixed in the latest version 606 of FF....
I just checked this filter and it does work....
Nested Loop Bug

I am using the latest build.....Check the number and date build...I am using Windows7 x64 so perhaps its one of those Os specific things....Where it needs to be fixed on different systems....