What was to be...

I'm really dissatisfied with my latest filter submission, "Cell Energy". Why? Because it looks nothing like I intended. Why?

Because the original filter took a total of 9 minutes to render!

Yep... it took 2 minutes for the first pass, and another 7 minutes for the anti-aliasing.

I already read in another post, where a filter was rejected for taking too long to render, and it wasn't even as slow as this one, so I knew I needed to speed mine up.

Unfortunately, I ended up with a really 'dumbed-down' version of my original intent.

The part which truly bothers me the most though, is that the anti-aliasing is what took so long... and it was totally unnecessary. To show what I mean, here are two images from the original version of this filter. See if you can tell which one was rendered with no anti-aliasing:





Here's a link to a side-by-side comparison of the two: http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/68...sonnn0.jpg

Anyway... I guess I just wanted to show what was to be...

The presets 'remember' your anti-aliasing settings? I suppose that would work then.

Of course, the first time someone hits the randomizer, wouldn't it revert to using anti-aliasing?

Sweet! I guess I'll have to do a sort of 'reverse update' on this one then.

Thanks for the help!