Expression Square 2 by CFandM

Expression Square 2 by CFandM
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/14336.html

Glad you find it useful..
You can also load an image (settings image) without a transparent background...Might have to play with the amount and spread of the image but there are more abstracts that result..This was a landscape image with dirt, grass and a sky...

Thanks Craig..

You are welcome Marlene. More inspiration from sitting in the doctors office staring at art on the wall..

Thanks SR....For more fun render some images from some of the filters in the library and then use those for this filter.....I used Ronjonie Gold River 1 and rendered out some images...I then used those for some more abstract fun....Needed to try some gold...

One More...

lol......Thanks rabbix thats what I was trying for.. ...

Other ways to bring more color to the abstract is take multi images and composite them together before loading them into this filter......Kinda like the above moethod.....I chose three images and combined them in one image below....

Then one more variation using the same composited image.....

Choose your image base in the settings section for the colors and then open the same image through the menus to keep the same size as the loaded image. It just looks better when doing this. You can edit the image and look at the section in the image below to see how the colors in the image are processed.

Here is a quick video of playing with this filter. I was using one image and getting different abstracts. Using Expression Square 2

When saving the image I usually set the AA to all pixels and 17 samples. Gives a nice smooth image in the finally rendered result.
You can find another sample HERE

I have remembered about this awesome and amazing filter and have thought that this is a generative excelent realistic brush strokes could be used in another possible way

I mean that it could be added an optional image that could be used as overlay of this awesome designs, and so it could modify optionally the final result and have a blend mode to choose what would be best depending on the overlay source image

Here below is a fast example I made, although could be done in a different way

You can enable or disable the overlay and when enabled, you can choose a blend mode. For this to happen the Background on first blend mode must be transparent with Alpha = 0 and the shown remapping

If you want I can upload the modified filter