Off the Deep End with ThreeDee

Wow.. how the heck did you pull that off? I'm really curious to how you made that filter Very very interesting...

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Sphinx. wrote: Wow.. how the heck did you pull that off? I'm really curious to how you made that filter Wink Very very interesting...

All will be revealed as soon as it goes through the queue. It's a pretty out-there method, but it works.

muahahaha! they're in the library. they're mine! all mine! no! you cant have them! they're mine!

Awesome work!

Thanks Craig. Ah, but I want to leave such experimentation to others! I left everything possible out of the snippet to keep it to the very basics. Even all texture transformation is gone, which can be found in the original Lathe filter.

I like the effect that the 'Balance' control you added does with it. Makes me think you could make an off-center lathe-like operation with ease by offsetting the height map horizontally by another curve of the same scale.

Sure -- this is what I mean. Same as Lathe Internal Profile, but the height map is offset horizontally by another curve:



>>> Henry-Mooreish sculpture!

Just as another idea, imagine what you get when you replace the circular curve that makes the shape round with some other curve -- or do some math with two curves... I let you try that one.

ah, ok, irregular shapes. cool

well, if you look at my mod, you'll see i already added in an impulse curve on the other side. so, i'm guessing you mean change out your original curve and yes, that would be a good way to change shapes. you could even set up a bank of curves on a switch.

as for what your picture is, uhm,... a lightbulb handing in an art studio?

the art gallery has a sun roof

Sjeiti's Terraformer goes global. ("Look mom, no 3D program!")



This made me realize I am missing the option to wrap a square image ALL the way around the sphere in the 3D Sphere filter. Right now it minimally wraps two of them, one in the front and another in the back. Since Sjeiti's Terraformer is properly made to wrap all the way around a sphere, I had to scale the image horizontally before this worked.

I guess that'll be the first update to 3D Sphere. I ought to add alpha-channel-based bump mapping to it, too.

good globes, both of them.

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ThreeDee wrote: I have a secret ambition to be able to make a fully rotatable 3D cube one day.

I had been thinking the same thing from your work.....which has now made me think that it's possible to take it even further than that into the 3D realm.....

First, I've been trying to think of a way to use your lathe concept in conjuction with your 3D sphere concept.....to create solid A-symetrical 3D glass forms which conduct true refraction from a backgrounfd image (like your solid glass lightbulb) that are not confined to being created in the center of the image plane.....

My old artsy-fartsy random art glass filter, which I recently posted samples from in my lab string, was made with a similar concept to your lathe filter.....only I had used maxed gusian blur instead of your lathe's maxed motion blur.....which is a really neat trick that I never would have thought of.....

I truly believe that you've single-handedly broken the 3D barrier here with your Sphere filters.....and I haven't been this excited since Hilary Clinton got knocked out of the presidential race..... LOL....

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.....and I haven't been this excited since Hilary Clinton got knocked out of the presidential race.....

easy now, dont have a stroke

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I have a secret ambition to be able to make a fully rotatable 3D cube one day. If that succeeds,

and combine that with batch, incremental slider processing and you'd have something VERY, VERY cool

Hehe, here it is. Who knows what this is? (That's not a rhetorical question)

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CorvusCroax wrote: Have you seen this article? Some genius rigged up an excel spreadsheet (!) to draw a rotating 3d cube. LINK Completely Geek Awesome.

No kidding -- now that's pretty darn geeky!

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CorvusCroax wrote: Hey, that's what my screen saver looks like .... It's A-Life! Did you seriously make a Filter that runs A-life? How in the world did you do that?? How would you get it to 'read' the nearby pixels? (4 overlapping offsets, blended, plus a threshold, perhaps?) You should submit it!

Seriously, I did. Believe it or not, it wasn't even very complicated. It reads all 8 neighboring boxes and does its thing. Every time you run the filter it calculates the next image based on the Game of Life rules. It is easier to make animation frames out of it in Photoshop as you can just hit Control-F for the last filter, but you can "run" it from the standalone as well, you just gotta save the image and load it back in at each step.

Today I got some other funny ideas for multi-pass filters, but they're just too crazy: You know, you could make the Etch-A-Sketch to actually draw images, it would just be one line at a time, apply, next line, apply. Doubt that I'll actually bother to do it -- it's a pretty hilarious idea though...

Ah, done rendering. Here 'tis.



Animated between FF, Photoshop and ImageReady -- with an "animated slider," no less.

Heck -- who needs a 3D program?

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Sjeiti wrote: very nice ThreeDee... ...now do a teapot

You mean like this?

lol. i give 3D. i bow to your mastery

ThreeDee I treally like your "room" with perspective. Please post that!

thanks, gunsan

This is a... well, it's a...

Sci-Fi Alien Goo Variation!

It's OK. Hope uyou can fix it!

Gun

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