LAB#3015 Skybase

I found several similar moss effects

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/7356.html

That one's pretty nice

Here's another.

Too bad it loses detail from compression. The real thing is super crisp.

COLOR HARMONIES ARE SUPER IMPORTANT!!! In any given time, we are bombarded by color harmonies and variations of them.

Well today I met a client who just didn't understand all of this, so I thought I'd make a "learning tool" for finding combination of colors that work well with each other. I'm still trying to figure ways to make it easier and understand able.

But the basic idea is that you choose 1 color, and you go from there instead of choosing multiple.

Some results... its a biiit too tough.

I'll figure a way

btw I call it "I Can Draw Manga!"

Hey skybase,

Cool manga filter! FWIW, I was messing around w/ a filter to make similar high-contrast linework + limited posterized color. Sort of like Vlad's comic book filter.
One of the things I found to work pretty well is to pull out the various channels, (using extract RGB, or Extract HSL nodes) then hit them with a high pass to find the high contrast edges. Works pretty good, actually, particularly w/ the Red channel. (Hope that makes sense.)

Meanwhile... I was playing a classic 2.5-D Shooter called Marathon Durandal and Infinity. It's been over 10 years since that game was first released but the texture work still inspires me to make interesting looks and styles.

Here's the wiki article regarding this material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_(video_game)
... Link feature doesn't seem to be working well, so just copy and paste it.

After the 3rd edition of Marathon, Bungie released two editors for custom level and character design as well physics and sound. This allowed people to create their own "scenarios" or mods which can be downloaded and played as an add on to the original game itself.

One of the most beautiful, most massive scenario as far as I know is Marathon Rubicon, released in 2001. The texture work was extremely gorgeous, crisp, and beyond the original artwork. The level design is incredible and massive as well and the textures go very well with it.

Marathon Rubicon can now be downloaded at: http://www.marathonrubicon.com/

Anyway, we live in 2009 and it's been a long long time since these games came into existence. So I thought I'd just go back, look at some great examples of techno-texture work. I imagined doing all of them in FilterForge.

As a start... here's a simple circuit wall.

Simple stuff.
Here's a simple filter that pretty much finds color harmonies with just saturation and some other controls.

Basic "tiles"

Skybase has run into a BIG WALL!

We'll call this the FilterForge Wall. I just can't come up with ANYthing to do. While LAB 3105 is in operation I haven't come to anything decent. I see textures everywhere and anywhere I look. I make them, but I never feel the same satisfaction as I did with the rest of the stuff I've made so far.

The difference is that I'm trying to not only just generate "good looking stuff" but more of art itself. (??) give me a second of humor.

def Ideas ()

for i in range (1, 900, 2):
i = skybase + filterforge
print (i)

Ideas ()

syntax error filterforge is not defined. Skybase is not defined.

SHOOT.

ok well that's not going to loop and add ideas to Skybase. nop. no way.

For one thing, the way I'm ever satisfied is when I generate something that's actually more than just a texture. Not just some sort of texture generator or a image effect that results in something boring as a cartoon, sketch, random distortions, crap... I just basically think that there's so much more that can be done to an image that it's tough to come up with something super original and useful at the same time. Of course, in my realm (since I work with Maya) FilterForge is a wonderful helper tool.

But hey... I don't plainly think of it like that. It's NOT just a helper tool, it's like... a 80% complete graphics package that's missing some vital features like iteration (looping algorithms), internal selection utilities, why not erosion, macros... so on and so forth. The point being that regardless of it's actual selling point (a Photoshop Plugin that makes Plugins) it can be more on its own.

</rant>

Get back to work Skybase.

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Skybase wrote: As of now, Marathon Trilogy is fully available online. The website isn't "official" although I think it's much more relevant and modern: http://source.bungie.org/get/

Even thou its not official this is where I downloaded the trilogy and the other scenarios along with (Recommended) Aleph-one...This allows one to play on OSX (ppc/intel) and Linux also....So I can fully say good stuff to find there...

i dont get it, CF. which what do you download there to make it work on a windows system (xp or vista)? and where is this 'aleph one.exe' file?

thanks, CF. uhm, what are SDLs?

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Skybase wrote: thanks, CF. uhm, what are SDLs? Source Development Language System Design Language Software Development Lohninger CF... it's not SDK?

Its Simple DirectMedia Layer...It for keyboard access, openGl, etc...

http://www.libsdl.org/

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Skybase wrote: </rant>

Haha

Original please?

I must admit that I'm with Betis, it makes me appreciate the qualities of the filter, though I do understand where you are coming from. You've made it pop, the colouring are beautiful tones ............... I like this one

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tone curves, levels?

Playing with Filter Forge's RGB assembly.

The return to LAB 3015.

Here's some opart that hurts my brains as well.

Anything, inducing photos work although by preference vector art works best.

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Kraellin wrote: yup, those will warp ya. i made something like that in v1 but i dont think i ever submitted it. it shld be in my little thread/workshop. very cool, btw Smile

Ah, this actually, I thought I would have done it in version 1, but I used percentile to smooth out the edges for photographs.

nice, but sure blows your eyes out