SpaceRay´s Lab and Forge - For tests, experiments and varied things

Here is with my own source image instead of FF´s, but I think I have to modify more things so it gives the result I really want

As this post have changed the page, please see the last two posts at the end of page 1 to explain about this image shown here

Or using the same source but changing the settings

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Skybase btw question: are most of what you upload final works? Or are they more like examples? :o

No, most of them, well 95%, are only just tests, examples and experiments I make. Regretably I still do no work yet as a freelancer as you.

I mean that's pretty interesting. So "almost all" the pictures you produce are examples of filters. So I guess you enjoy the program in that it produces pretty imagery to see rather than enjoying it as a practical tool? That's interesting. I mean, in many cases we kinda build filters like a work of art.

I just do freelance work for money, plus it's my expertise. But most of what I post and publish online are personal works. My commercial works are actually quite dull. I've only had a couple moments where I was given a chance to do whatever I felt like.

Skybase read my answer above

What happens if you take the Free Polygon, configure it with a star of 70 sides, countour bevel at maximum value, and then apply loops and 4 randomizers and rise it up until 800 iterations?

Well you get this scribble effect

Will upload the filter soon

I have been testing to use a mix of Perlin noise, Cells and Chaffs noises joined together and using High pass, and additionally using also a source image for more different results and have got this

And this could be a little bit dull, so I have added some color tiling with another filter I have been making

The result is 100% FF with no external image used

Nice! Just as a small suggestion: add fog to it to simulate depth

Blur? said fog. Fog != blur.

When anti-alias applies to areas of high frequency, it leaves artifacts. Scaling to 0 causes artifacts to emerge as a result of AA.

I like the grey scale image you posted yesterday. Interesting mix. Makes want to dig in to ff more

Perhaps something like this?

EDIT: Oh that's your own filter. Nice job!

I just think there's this common thread that goes through people who make filters. Just this point where I realize I'm basically making the same thing as what somebody else would have done. Just doing something differently. But in the natural progression it seems like something comes out familiar to what I was doing just a while back. [Edited for clarity]

I like the shapes collage, Spaceray! You should also look into Xirja's Xia Script, he used just a few base shapes, but laid them on top of each other in different combinations to make the appearance of different letters.

Hello, is curious that in all this years, nobody have thought to make a filter with circles with colorful rings inside that is a very popular thing on internet.

The only similar thing is from Skybase Gradient Circles, but these are just plain transparent circles.

I have done the filter with 25 color controls, 5 circle shapes with 5 rings inside and 1 bomber, although in the examples all the rings are exactly the same, I have done it so you can modify the width and size of each of the rings to have irregular rings.

This circles could have a great amount of combinations of colors and do not have to all have different colors, you could also use black, and white with red only, or have different other color combinations, and also mix with textures.

Also I have thought that instead of plain colors you could also paint with aquarelle some color textures and use them inside the rings, so they do not look so plain.

Here are some examples I have found

Google images for colorful circles

Also have seen that the artist Bharti Kher have done some atrworks with this rings inside circles as seen here

Bharti Kher circles artwork

And more can be seen here as shown in this google images search

Here it is at 2000x2000 but still is not big enough to see it well

Fireworks!

here you can see it better

Going back to the shapes collage I have shown above, I have finally made 28 shapes (maybe I will include 4 more) and have tried 3 different ways to do it, 2 of them with bomber that did not work well, (as it gets complex and difficult to control the distribution of the shapes) and the third way is not using bomber and using the way that ThreeDee have cleverly done here in this filter and also suggested very well by Skybase in the second post of this thread

I have done it already in black and white, rainbow style, and filling the shapes with a background image, and now I am making the complex part that is to fill optionally EACH one and single shape with 2 colors or 2 images each one, and be able to have also gradients and shadows inside each one of the shapes. This fourth part is shown a little in the fourth image below.

56 color controls?

The problem with this is that I still do not know how to do the individual colorizing, as this would need to have 56 color controls!! , if it would be done individually, so I have thought to try and see what happens if I repeat some of them and have about 12 color controls (6 and 6 for each half of the shapes), or maybe keep one half always black (or whatever color) and color the other half in different colors.

Lookup table for the colors

I think that instead of this amount of color controls it could be done a Lookup table to feed the colors to the shapes, but the lookup table should work automatically and not through a manual slider, so I thought that it could be used the new loops to automate it (as I have already suggested and asked in this thread here but it seems that is very complex too do, and also additionally the look up must be done also automatically or randomly by itself inside FF, and I do not know how to do all this, so will keep with the more simple solution of using colors controls instead that I can use and understand.

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Skybase Nah don't complicate yourself over lookup tables.

Yes. it may be perhaps too complex and/or difficult to do for 28 shapes.

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Skybase I've suggested stuff like this

This is a very good suggestion but I do not know how to make color schemes like these in Filter Forge, and there is no filter available for this in the library, I mean that the only way I know is through the 3 or 5 gradient component and using after Profile gradients, but they are ALL together and not separate colors.

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Skybase The idea here is that the user can pick 1 color and FilterForge determines the rest of the colors based on the 1 color selected. The point is that there are color harmonies.

This would be very good and easy for the user and have many colors based on color harmonies would look nice, BUT there is a problem I find, in the groups you are showing there is up to 5 different colors but there is ONLY 1 OUTPUT from each group so HOW would you make that each shape would have a different color from the color harmonie?

Is there a way to separate the colors to link them to each of the shapes?
and considering that there are 28 different shapes how would you do it?

And another design from the above

I have seen this music video U2 - Lemon and thought about making a filter with the same grid in the background and using images to be mixed with them and be able to make the grid variable, and maybe also be able to have images filling the smaller squares too.

For this I am using the great and well done snippet made by ThreeDee

Pixel-Based Grid Snippet by ThreeDee

To make a better effect I have to figure out to remove the black background from the filter, as using blend modes does not always give a good effect

Here is a quick test

The above is using normal polar and here is using symmetrical polar

Both are using Horizontal Stripes