Eye Factory by Ruckage

Eye Factory by Ruckage
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/8965.html

Sauron is watching us
Great filter!

I played with your filter - great stuff and the randomizer seem to work well (i.e. no extreme "wrong looking" renderings).

I noticed that the blood vessels looked a bit flat (like on a flat surface) compared to the shading and all, so I edited the filter and optimized it a bit (full rendering, before: 1 min, now 18 secs).

Feel free to use it if you want.

Eye Factory - Sphinx.ffxml

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Sphinx. wrote: I noticed that the blood vessels looked a bit flat (like on a flat surface) compared to the shading and all, so I edited the filter and optimized it a bit (full rendering, before: 1 min, now 18 secs). Feel free to use it if you want.

Thanks Sphinx, I had no idea how to achieve that sphere distort for the veins, definately adds to the look so I'll include it in an update. I'll add an option to enable or disable the sphere distort though as if you want to use the difuse map as a texture it wouldn't be needed.
I did notice your changes have resulted in some loss in detail in the iris but I'll study your modifications some more and see if I can optimise the filter whilst retaining the detail. Still very much learning so this kind of feedback is very helpful, thanks again.

One of the best eye filters here!

hehe, love the sauron references. something bugs me about the default. it's the depth perception between the iris/pupil and the eyeball. you've got a good gradient from the outer eyeball to the center, with the center highlighted quite strongly, but then you place a much darker iris/pupil in the middle and the difference/contrast between that and the eyeball highlight makes the iris/pupil look sunken or a bit concave around the iris.

now, on some of the others it's quite different. not sure how you could get around it with the variety you've got there. like, #2 the iris looks quite raised up, almost like another sphere on top of the eyeball. but, #1 and #3 look quite natural. tricky stuff.

overall, though, quite a good filter!

k. that sounds good. after all, who says the iris cant be raised or lowered?