LAB#3015 Skybase

Was inspired by these designs to make a filter. Thanx Skybase. Check it out. https://www.filterforge.com/filters/14580.html

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do you prepare the color themes by hand or are they also some kind of generative?

It's a little bit of both worlds! TL;DR: It uses a predefined color set I created by analyzing modern, well-liked designs on Behance and FilterForge just randomizes it.

LONG STORY:
Initially, my plan was to fully randomize colors and try to apply biases to each randomization to produce more "nice color schemes" this, unfortunately, didn't work. It came out too random or too biased towards a certain set of colors.

My second approach was more just getting color harmonies. So making components that only output analogous colors, opposite colors, triads, etc these WORK but in general get really boring quickly. There's also the problem that when the initial color is pretty ugly, the output is pretty ugly too.

So after all these years I've been trying this "auto color scheme generator" thing I begin to feel that I need to really think about what even defines a good color scheme. I spent nearly 2 or 3 years just exploring all sorts of methods and ideas, none of which feel like I'm getting great schemes.

It kinda hits me that humans are inherently biased towards certain things. Of course, there are always outliers but in general, when it comes to art, people intrinsically know what looks good and what doesn't look that good. There's always a lean with colors, especially with design, colors play a vital role in making us think and feel. With that being said, a good color scheme can't entirely be quantified down to simple, mathematical things of nodes. It's not a simple-rotate-hue-and-get-harmonies type of deal and it's not just a simple lean towards something.

What I began doing was I went on Behance and began taking what the top designers are doing with color. And I quickly realize that there's somewhat of a pattern. And so I decided to simply take what people already quite like and utilize that to generate new schemes. I grabbed as many top Behance projects with color schemes that don't deviate too hardcore. Meaning that I avoided projects that utilized extreme color schemes or something that far deviated fr om the overall appearance of the rest of this group.

I then used a separate program and quantized the images down to their base colors. Then I went in and further chose the best colors from each scheme and put them into a lookup table.

The result is a simple lookup table that contains top favorites of most designers on Behance. This lookup table is then fed into FilterForge, wh ere the rest of it is just randomized. What's amazing is that despite having such a variety of colors, the output is 95% of the time, pretty nice.

Another one!

Just to be clear, these aren't separate renders in one, this single image is the output of the filter.

The bomber plus is dope.

Skybase, I'm really liking the modifications to your map generator! This thread reminded me that I need to look into adapting your map maker to work with the continental shapes I'm getting with my current filter project (see image). I'm interested in a little more than a straight port of your filter into mine; I'm hoping I can come up with something similar, but able to 'adopt' boundaries from the terrain features.

Thanks! Here's my work in progress thread, where you can try it out (grab the latest version):

David Roberson - Previews & Experiments

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How do you make that the bomber plus renders one different result for each part of the final result?

Use the randomizer slave component. That's all. And thanks! :3

Do you need some more explanation?

If anything I think the bomber plus is a fascinating component that deserves more discussion. All plus components are worthy of deeper end talk really. Just that a lot of people probably don't use it/need it/get it. I was thinking of making some kind of explanation video some months prior but I fell short on time. It's extremely difficult to make watchable videos or let alone writing about them with images.

I can do only so much but I can try.

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Thank you, Skybase. I did not have the 2nd version yet, but I've got it now. I'll take a look at it, and see what I can do.

Notice how the entire basis of the filter stems from 1 single Perlin Noise. That's what you want to replace. Beyond that point, it's a matter of tweaking positions and stuff.

I want to ask if the 4 examples shown above in my post are using the randomizer in similar way, or they are different?

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Skybase wrote: Use the randomizer slave component. That's all. And thanks! :3

Thanks, but could you be so kind to explain it a little bit more, or show a screenshot on how is connected the randomizer with some components and the bomber plus?

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Skybase wrote: If anything I think the bomber plus is a fascinating component that deserves more discussion. All plus components are worthy of deeper end talk really. Just that a lot of people probably don't use it/need it/get it.

I totally agree that the bomber plus looks very interesting and useful, and you confirm this telling that it is a fascinating component, but as you say very well and wisely, a lot of people may not use it because do not know or understand how to use it and what multiple possibilities are available that are not possible with the normal bomber. And I totally agree that all plus components deserve a much more deeply explanation and explore the many possibilities, and this should be done by Filter Forge company itself.

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Skybase wrote: I was thinking of making some kind of explanation video some months prior but I fell short on time. It's extremely difficult to make watchable videos or let alone writing about them with images.

OH!!! This would be really awesome and very helpful and useful, if you could be able to make a video showing how to use the bomber plus in different ways. Of course and understanding that you do it when you can and want, as you have many more important things to do and are busy, but would be much appreciated if you can do it when you can. Thanks very much

Some more improvements!

That's a super filter, never mind those render times...
I love those marbles...have a whole jar full and often marvel at them

Yes, please, I look forward to that new filter, thank you.

Hey folks https://rgbland.space/ is finally awake! It'll now post 5 random pictures a day that's created entirely with FilterForge. It's purely random and no way to make predictions. There is no goal or aim for this project other than it being sometimes nice and sometimes ugly.

Subscribe to the feed, keep your eyes swimming in nonsense.

I'M BACK. I've been going around posting all my work on places like Instagram, not so much here sorry.

I'm generally active here:
https://ello.co/yuyatakeda

and
https://www.instagram.com/sky.base/

For FilterForge stuff.

I'm otherwise chilling on Artstation as usual:
https://www.artstation.com/skybase

Anyway let's get back to patterns!

As usual I'm trying to make ways to inspire myself with colors so I made a small filter that dumps out a bunch of simple color gradients.

Dusting off some... half developed filters. A bit of update. So unlike my previous attempt at this, I asked Kevin Weber to see if he could take the render times of this filter down significantly. He did. What used to take 2 minutes for 600x600 now takes 23 seconds. The output is damn good. BUT it doesn't work well with different sizes... this needs some investigation.

Very nice patterns! Good to see you back.

Using my color generator to make a very minimalist design.

Very nice! This is what I'm into these days: it's mathematical... but it is organic at the same time. Excellent.

Beautiful work! The machine learning stuff is very interesting.

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Skybase wrote: Hey folks https://rgbland.space/ is finally awake!

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Skybase wrote: You can visit my old RGBLand project here: LINK TO RGBLAND

I have seen that both of these link shown above in this page for this one here is now wrong and goes to a Thailand website that seems to be about bitcoin investment and not related to anything RGBLAND

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Yuya wrote: Dusting off some... half developed filters. A bit of update. So unlike my previous attempt at this, I asked Kevin Weber to see if he could take the render times of this filter down significantly. He did. What used to take 2 minutes for 600x600 now takes 23 seconds. The output is damn good. BUT it doesn't work well with different sizes... this needs some investigation.

This looks really cool and interesting,, well done, like it much.

What is the modification that Kevin Weber have done to reduce it so much if it possible to know?
I do not mean to show the filter, I mean to tell what was wrong that was changed to speed it up so much.

Thanks very much and send you my best wishes and that you can keep creating so many beautiful and creative things that you do

Thanks very much for your answer and explaining it, I understand it and is good to know

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