Procedural experiments

Nice little houses... but where do I park the car? And what about those weeds at the front door

This is excellent work. Many of these are very impressive and some are just stunning

I was wondering if you'd be willing to share any of the following filters even if only privately.

mazetile
hills
fractal
technopolis
rock
waveshaper
terrain dof
vectorfield
framework
reflective
celestial
transformation
processing

These are by far my favorites and I'd love to have the chance to play around with any or all of them

what?! fucking houses :O how?

[great work tho]

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emme wrote: billboard 04

this is cool ad well done, curious, and I wonder how was made to make all different squares with different designs

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emme wrote: megacity 01

same comment as on previous quote

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amazing as well!

would you mind if you could send me the filter? I really want to know how you did the drops

Welp, after all these years we have a solution. Sweet stuff emme. Thank you for all that effort and all the extremely beautiful filters you've made so far.

Oh, so there were scripts released already. For some reason I couldn't open the second page of the thread, and missed those.

ThreeDee's script seems to have a similar algorithm, but runs a lot slower. Probably because most of the calculations are done inside get_sample() function, whereas mine runs mostly in the prepare() function. I guess there's no way around that if you want to use map inputs (as they can't be called inside prepare).

Sphinx's script is using some old lua functions and would need some fixing to get running.

And yes, adding masks should be easy, but not very efficient, having to do this inside get_sample() function. At least not without using unsafe scripts.

RE: testing screen space ambient occlusion

WOW! Does the source have to be a perfect square, or would say, 1920x1200 work too? Either way, AWESOME effect, emme!

@Gogger, Thanks - for the ambient occlusion itself, any image size will work. For this specific (depth map) structure, I ended up using a square, but any size should work.

@Martin, No problem - I'll be sure to check your gallery in case you come up with something cool using the script haha.

Few updates for the circle packing script:

Added two new modes: mode 4 for circle x/y positions and mode 5 for circle texture coordinates. This makes it possible to do color fills, masks and to map images to the circles.

Drawing is now optimized to not oversample empty areas due to scaling. This was causing big slowdown when scaling the circles down. All modes should also now work correctly with scaling.

AA zones still need some work. Antialiasing should be set to all pixels when using bitmaps.

CirclePacking v003.ffxml

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Just checked out beeple and wow, his work is amazing. Especially the daily stuff - crazy how he can keep up that pace. Very inspiring stuff.

WHAT @ dreamscape 01. Wow!

Thanks!

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Heya emme, as you surely know your stuff is NEXT LEVEL! I don't know if even the creators of Filter Forge imagined it could do the stuff you are getting out of it.

I know if you went onward and upward and made a stand-alone program that creates the kinds of images you create and show here, I, for one, would buy it in a heartbeat and would gladly pay for effects packs, add-ons etc. I know it is a HUGE undertaking, but just wanted to throw that out there.

Your stuff boggles the mind and is artwork in its own right. Keep up the stunningly amazing work!

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THAT one is AMAZING!

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Gogger wrote: Heya emme, as you surely know your stuff is NEXT LEVEL! I don't know if even the creators of Filter Forge imagined it could do the stuff you are getting out of it.

I totally Agree with this, emme is FF next level and even out of expert FF, it stands out and surely FF developers did not know that all these things could be possible

Thanks for the comments! Trying to get back into the groove

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And some debugging art as a side product.

The main objective is always to look cool

Technically, the idea is to describe the scene as a distance field and use raymarching with an adaptive step size to optimize for speed. So basically, from each point of the image, take steps towards the light until you hit something. If you hit a wall, you're in the shadow - if you hit the light you're illuminated. The distance field allows to take bigger steps when far away from objects and smaller steps when close. This saves calculations while remaining accurate.

jffe - Yeah the cones are just a side effect haha

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