LAB#3015 Skybase

I think its stylistically ok, but the jumble function makes a mess of outgoing data when used so I gotta find another way to achieve the effect I'm going for (and that obviously happens because its jumble).

Either way, what I really want to do is have each quadrant correctly have an assigned UV coordinates or some form of numerical count so I can process things later. I'm also digging into finding a method so that the lines don't merge and become nasty thick lines I always see when iterate the tiles too many times.

lol man look at this. Loop doesn't let you control the variation variable per iteration so there's no way to change the jumble pattern in any way. lol it makes something that looks like weird fractals after 30 or 40 iterations.

I'm liking these fractured rectangles. That last example is like Mondrian x Escher, with some other color scheme.

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Skybase wrote: now i want distance transform as node.

You and me both.

This is actually just the RGB color data... kinda looks pretty.

Very good and well done, beautiful very complex textures you have done here, I like much intrincated and complex textures (as shown on my avatar), and I wonder if this could hold also images instead of only plain colors.

Similarly.

Yeh... it's honestly a wish-list thing. So currently there's no easy way of doing any of that, in fact it might be impossible without actually scripting something, and even still there doesn't seem any hope given the way FilterForge calculates stuff. Although you never know what people come up with.

I'm talking to several others on the subject as well, it seems there might be a way using the bomber, but not keeping my hopes up in terms of speed performance!

Some times the simplest ideas are the most difficult.

After tinkering around... somehow this happened.

Furthermore, rotation is being manipulated by a gradient to produce some interesting results that appear a bit more artistic.... although now the big thing is the looks of it. It's an extreme filter. The output produces something interesting, but yet somewhat unappealing. I think the colors are whack and poorly controlled so that'll need some more work.

Another technical but interesting thing is that each particle is slightly randomized so no particle is the same. That's one beautiful thing about the bomber+ that the regular bomber can't do.

But the one big thing to me is the sluggishness of the filter. It's 2 minutes to render this small image, I can't imagine anybody caring to render huge images using such a filter. And unfortunately I just don't know if I ever will myself.

In the end when I see arguments about how filter forge is slow, it bothers me that I prefer not to upload filers that take long to render. It's been a major deterrent to me uploading any "highest quality" filter thus far.

Oh well. Anybody want this? PM me. mmn... nah. I'll upload it when I feel like it.

I guess I should be happy about the bomber+ anyway.

From what I pick up, in most cases, if there's a lot of grainy results it's fine to disable AA completely anyway. In the case above AA is disabled and the visual feel doesn't change. FXAA is a great alternative in any case. I think it should be a component.

.... and for something different.

One of the older filters I made "Side to Side" looks kinda cool when you apply some constrained rotation to it.

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Skybase wrote: After tinkering around... somehow this happened.

Very nice and artistic, like it much the flow and strokes of this, well done. I prefer the second one that looks nicer than the first one.

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Skybase wrote: One of the older filters I made "Side to Side" looks kinda cool when you apply some constrained rotation to it.

Cool and beautiful results, great artistic effect. Like it how the lines makes such an awesome artistic result.

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constrained rotation

A nice balance between order and chaos, truly.

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Another technical but interesting thing is that each particle is slightly randomized so no particle is the same. That's one beautiful thing about the bomber+ that the regular bomber can't do.

Yep! Those brush strokes are pleasant. Using derivative or something to get curvature in the strokes would be my only suggestion for how to improve. The method used in my Xia Script can now be better applied.

These take forever to render.

Oh! Very nice. You should post it as filter.

Yes, I agree with you, randomness is generally good within some limits.

Those loops are sweet.

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You should post it as filter.

I kinda thought about it, but I probably won't given this is a self-generating image filter. I don't mean that to be a bad thing, I just feel as though there are not-so-cool folks out there who just re-renders these for stock imagery. I'm just not ok with that.

I also kinda made it for a branding project I'm starting up!

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It looks like you chose a set of colors, and it randomly picks the sequence of colors (and then interpolates/fades). Is that what's going on? Just curious.

It's a very simple chain of a profile gradient with a noise curve applied + a 5 color gradient that stores to colors. So I'm using 2 elevation gradients fed with data from a position slave to call specific colors per iteration.

When you put the paper near a light source, the translucency produces a neat effect. This one shows 2 pieces of paper combined to form a new pattern.

Tone, shape, and method of pattern generation are adjusted to produce usually unified results. This is one of the critiques I honestly have of many works that get uploaded to the library. The issue being that results usually aren't uniformly produced, generating results that may or may not be useful to the end user.

Some more printed works.

I applied techniques to the spiral filter I made long long ago. Now it's outlining stuff!

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Skybase wrote: I kinda thought about it, but I probably won't given this is a self-generating image filter. I don't mean that to be a bad thing, I just feel as though there are not-so-cool folks out there who just re-renders these for stock imagery. I'm just not ok with that.

I totally agree with you and is true, and is a pity that this happens that some people want to earn money from the work of others without doing nothing when you are giving this filter for free. Is a pity that others that do not do this kind of things and want it only for personal use misses many filters, but as said I totally agree that you do not give away any filter that you do not want.

Is not that I want this filter or any other, I mean that I perfectly understand and know what you say and feel, and that regretably this is true what you say

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lately

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By my calculations, it has been going on for some time. See:

- Edison's patent factory
- Iconoclasm as 'cover' for looting

Who got the credit? Qui bono in the above two cases? More often than not, employers/misanthropes will 'hire' people to do work, take the credit for themselves, and pay from ill gotten gains. Definitely a bummer! But here's a hammer!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_vZxELcCQk

As said I totally agree with you and I feel and think the same as you on all that you say, and I share the same feeling about them

Is not that is not legal as FF alows it, is that about the ethics, integrity and act like if you are getting profit from something that is done and shared for free and yourself do not bring nothing to it

And what is even worse, is that as you say they dare to call themselves "artists" and even worse is that they may claim that this is something THEY have done themselves!! How can they dare to say that is a work done and created by themselves, when they only render it from a filter?

I remember that i have seen in a famous digital shop that someone has taken the Volcanic Ashes filter, and in the description it was put that he spent much time creating this and even worse is that it was based on photographs he had taken from a real volcano!! how can he said that when it was very clear that it was untouched plain render directly from the PRESETS of the filter, he did not even change the settings!!
i wrote an email to him telling the truth and that I did now that it was sure and clear that it was from filter forge and he was angry to me telling that I was lying!!

I agree that is not fair, ethic or good to do it, and is pathetic and bad

Sorry to bring negative things to your own thread, but I wanted to tell you and share that I think the same and share the same feelings about this topic