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StevieJ

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Lathe Custom Profile by ThreeDee
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6425.html

Steve

"Buzzards gotta eat...same as worms..." - Clint :)

Posted: September 22, 2008 1:32 am

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StevieJ

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I couldn't wait to see how you did this..... smile:devil:

Steve

"Buzzards gotta eat...same as worms..." - Clint :)

Posted: September 22, 2008 1:34 am

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Sphinx.

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Ah I knew it! You use motion blurs to create a horizontal distance transform like output - excellent! You should publish a snippet fully dedicated to the depth map part of the filter..

Njyldgarkn init/prepare process x no. of render blocks x no. of passes

Posted: September 22, 2008 1:59 am

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Kraellin

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and for some rather amazing examples of this filter, check out this thread: http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...#nav_start

If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!

Craig

Posted: September 22, 2008 4:09 am

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StevieJ

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ThreeDeeForge..... smile:devil:

Steve

"Buzzards gotta eat...same as worms..." - Clint :)

Posted: September 22, 2008 10:08 am

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ThreeDee

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Sphinx. wrote: Ah I knew it! You use motion blurs to create a horizontal distance transform like output - excellent!

Hehe. The most obvious solution, of course.

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Sphinx. wrote: You should publish a snippet fully dedicated to the depth map part of the filter..

Thinking about it. Question is, is it too abstruse of a subject without the full filter? You will only need it if you are using a pre-made (outside of FF) profile. The method for an internally created profile is simpler.

Posted: September 22, 2008 10:13 am

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Sphinx.

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ThreeDee wrote: Thinking about it. Question is, is it too abstruse of a subject without the full filter? You will only need it if you are using a pre-made (outside of FF) profile. The method for an internally created profile is simpler.

Well, the snippet would ofcourse have to use an internally constructed "demo" profile, but I think it would be rather useful with the boiled down version that only creates the depth map. In that snippet you can concentrate on getting the best result from various profile types (varying thickness etc).

Njyldgarkn init/prepare process x no. of render blocks x no. of passes

Posted: September 22, 2008 10:55 am

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Crapadilla

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+1 on publishing a cleaned up/boiled down snippet! smile:)

--- Crapadilla says: "Damn you, stupid redundant feature requests!" ;)

Posted: September 23, 2008 4:43 am

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ThreeDee

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Snippet submitted.

One thing that may not be obvious is that if you create the profile in FF, you don't have to go through all these hoops to do the lathe operation, it is a simpler deal. (Of course, creating the profile in FF may not be...)

Do we need another snippet or two to demonstrate how it works from an internal profile? You can create an internal profile with gradients and curves, for instance.

Posted: September 23, 2008 5:46 am

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ThreeDee

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Another fun thing to do would be to make a version which revolves around the z-axis. That would be equivalent to looking at this shape from the top. Would be good for car tires, clock faces, toruses (donuts, hoola-hoops!), plates and such.

I think I just talked myself into doing it... (so many ideas, so little time!)

Posted: September 23, 2008 5:52 am

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Crapadilla

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ThreeDee wrote: Do we need another snippet or two to demonstrate how it works from an internal profile? You can create an internal profile with gradients and curves, for instance.

Yup.