The Orange Head

Thanks!

I recently discovered this "adult coloring book"...
...that came out wrong...
...I discovered a coloring book with complex geometric patterns, advertized as a stress-reliever for adults. The patterns are made of lines and curves, and the areas in between are to be colored in. They start off relatively simple, with few lines and large areas. By the end, the patterns get very involved (like LexArt's current avatar, but tiling/tessellating).

So I thought, I could get the book and spend all that time coloring...
...OR Filter Forge can do it for me.

Here are 5 tiling patterns made only of circles. Randomized patterns look good, but I prefer to use a little math in placing the circles, and adjusting the radii so the circles "kiss".

I already have a patterned dither effect in the library, but there are other methods of dithering, with different results.

Random dithering is another method, using noise instead of a pattern. In FF, we can get (uniform) noise with the script component.

Uniform noise can have "blobs" or splotches that ruin the fine details of our image. But if we use a high pass, we can filter out these blobs, resulting in a cleaner dither. Instead of using the built-in High Pass component, I made my own pixel-based high pass.

In this example, motion blur from my phone's camera and nasty JPEG artifacts get replaced with a nice fuzzy dither. There are only 4^3 = 64 colors in this image!

(Of course, the grape hyacinths have been out for a while now)

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SpaceRay, you can follow those instructions, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and maybe some other drawing tools to make it neater.

In Filter Forge, my method is:
(0. pick the number of points)
1. Draw a line (I made a special group just for this)
2. Keep drawing (a.k.a. "Loop") lines until you complete the star or polygon
3. Keep drawing (a.k.a. "Loop") stars and polygons until you've done all possible stars and polygons.
(4. Post-processing)

Here, I'll attach a screenshot of the filter editor.
In this example, there are 5 points.
First, the inner loop draws a pentagon.
Then, the outer loop changes the color and pattern.
Then, the inner loop draws a 5-pointed star.
Then, the outer loop layers the star on top of the pentagon.
That's basically it.

The components cut off on the left tell the filter what color to make the lines and where to draw them.

...the lumbering mountain hides a rising surprise as the lake mist dances its last song for the night...

1,3 cis di-leoxypiscinol

A drug marketed under the name "Pterois", which is prescribed to reduce high blood pressure. Common side effects include... "extreme pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, breathing difficulties, convulsions, dizziness, headache, numbness, paresthesia (pins and needles), heartburn, diarrhea, and sweating."

Please consult your doctor if you are... "elderly, have a weak immune system, or are allergic to [lionfish] venom."

This Indigo guy, he's a special snowflake, having his own user gallery and all...

Stay warm everyone.

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Indigo Ray wrote: Bonus: Open the gif in Firefox and check out the animated tab icon.

Its blinking and blinking...

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Indigo Ray wrote: This Indigo guy, he's a special snowflake, having his own user gallery and all...

lol...

I had to drop the framerate to post this here:
(thanks to aba for the batch GUI!)

...deeper...

Yes, indeed, with scale too! Ahhhhhhh!

After making a prototype Slope Blur (see this forum thread), I made another version that specializes in radial/zoom/spin blurs.

But why stop there?

Some corner refraction going on...

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Indigo Ray wrote: The toaster's broken, but the bread's still good.

Hmmm. Very nice. You might want to work in a Modulo, though, to get some fake AO in the bread "bubbles".

Ha! Ha!

All it needs is a ribbon.
Filter - Furry mascot

Shapeshift - A quick graphical tutorial

(because god, I need practice making graphics)

Somehow I made pointy marshmallows... does that even make sense?

Basically, I'm trying out some isometric projection.

Ah, the mistakes are kismet... recently there was a Van Gogh like shot taken of Jupiter, a reminder of this example.

Nice swirliness:)

For all of you doing gel electrophoresis at home (...), you're probably having trouble getting easy-to-read results. Well, now you can fake them with Filter Forge!

For the rest of you, I figured that since the number of people who are familiar with "PCR" quadrupuled this past year, you might also want to acquaint yourself to a companion technology called "gel electrophoresis".

DNA (or RNA) is sliced into bite-sized bits and the samples are dropped in a row in box filled with agar gel. An electric current is applied, and the DNA fragments travel from one end to the other. Smaller fragments travel faster - bigger fragments travel slower. If you have lots of identical DNA pieces, they will travel together, forming a band shape. You can compare the bands of an unknown sample to those of a reference sample, and if the bands line up, then you can guess what kind of DNA is in the sample - like did it come from a nasty bacteria or virus? You can use PCR (you know, what they use for Covid-19 Tests) to multiply the amount of DNA so that you have enough to use for your samples.

The more you know, the less you want to know!