Voyager 3 by Skybase

Voyager 3 by Skybase
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8383.html

very cool

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Still, I gotta say your first Voyager is still my favorite.

Actually I agree with this. In creating Voyager 1, I was actually looking at a bunch of pictures, but I eventually went away from the realistic to a more strangely soft and mellow realm of color.

This actually turned out to be a very very good choice because they simply worked. The one thing, however, in sacrifice to doing so was the render time. It took more processing power (and brains) to come up with something that actually ran fast enough, but did not fail in terms of aesthetics.

The big push, for Voyager 1 was also the problem with the randomizer which completely messed up the look and feel. Sometimes you get a nice space scape of nebulae, sometimes not. Maybe that was a good thing, but I figured in terms of usage, it was just simply irritating to wait for it to render for a result.

I reproached the problem in Voyager 2.x where I actually set it so that the nebulae was centered and made sure that there was always something, even when randomized. It was faster than Voyager 1, and it worked better. But as a sacrifice, there was none of that "floaty" stuff. The nebulae always ended up in the center which was sometimes dull.

So finally, Voyager 3. This version is probably the most simplest and the fastest version of them all. The bomber was a great addition to FilterForge. It simply made making stars bloody easy and fast. Of course, with a complete overhaul of the whole filter meant a large change in terms of looks and color.

I'm perhaps going to go back to the original design, and try to recreate it within FilterForge 2. Who knows when I'll be done, but I feel like at one point, I'm going to totally need a generative background for a movie or something. And that's probably when I'll make Voyager 3.5 or 4 happen.