CorvusCroax's Junkyard

15e

I'm realizing that I need some way to separate out foreground and background.
Also thinking about adding more hatch modes: radial, directional, focused from a point, etc.

15g
david - comes out really well. It's funny how the low saturated areas (like the background) get really broken up and non-directional. (it uses hue to decide the rotation to apply.) Might have to build in something to fix that.

v15h
This one just gives in and allows grays.

Here's a self portrait of Albrecht Durer himself. He gets to be my guinea pig for a while.

v16c - Obama

Oh, these are REALLY good!!! The threshold of white area left is very nice on the last ones....

Hey thanks guys! It takes a bit of fussing to get it to look correct right now, but I think I'm closing in on a good filter.

Found that something that looks like this one works roughly best:
Obviously, you want to adjust this to the lighting you want. But it's super easy in FF

The advantage over Matcaps is that you can then mix with other render materials. This is a nice fake SSD skin material from Digital Creators:

Again, there is just ONE light, plus the GDI at 100

Hi CorvusCroax,

I wanted to ask if you plan to release that promising cutline filter you have been working on. It looks really awesome and I come here every now and then only to drool over it.

Sounds good either way, thx for the update!

Hey Nebukadnezar: fyi: the cutline filter is released. It's now v18, since I cleaned up a lot of the interface stuff to make it less unwieldy.
Enjoy!

and another, to show the variety

I love this look of the filter. It totally nails that classic effect.

Glad you like it, everyone!

Nebukadnezar: yeah, you want an image that has a fairly good light-dark range. I'd recommend hitting your image with levels beforehand. (Maybe also cranking up the color vibrance.)
FYI: I considered adding a pre-adjust brightness control to it, just right at the top, but decided not to b/c it doesn't do as good of a job as levels in Pshop, and using the FF levels would add too many controls.

Try fiddling with the 'mid threshold' and 'edges light'/ 'edges dark' sliders. The edges come from a high pass step, so it will find contrast even between dark things.

Here's my 'Steelerizer' filter that Thrash asked for: Might come back to it later.

Steelerizer 003.ffxml

Or like this:

I pitty the fool who turns me into stained glass!!! lol...

So, I was checking out Band of Runes LINKby Orestes, and ended up creating a super-duper deluxe version. Check it out:

It's got:
a) very controllable text style formation. Includes Regular and Italicized text. (image below shows italicized). You can even control if the text has symmetrical letters, and which axis they're symmetrical across (Y, A are Horizontal, E, B vertically)
b) the text always lines up with the circular banding. (It creates a big grid of text, and then you adjust the band itself)
c)Sweeping arcs, spinning lines, little dots, etc all to make it more astronomical
d)There are even little seals with some text characters.

test 003 - showing more text variation

Have not really been dealing w/ colors, etc. I figure it's important to just get the black and white working first. Plus there are so many FF filters to hit them with. Here's test 001 hit with "Dreamer" (by Emme, I think)

Here it #001 rusterized. Reminds me of the Dark Crystal movie from the 80's.