CorvusCroax's Junkyard

Corvus, these are looking really good. The less the color patterns fight with the geometry, the better. Meaning it seems to work with strong geometry and the colors broken clearly into separate areas along the same geometry edges. The first half of the images achieves that excellently.

So, I was going to post it, but at 301kb, it's too big to post on the board! (The board doesn't seem to allow compressed files, like zip.)

#21 mm... volcom-ness

#23

#25 This is just a variant of 24, with modified colors.

Destroy all Micronians!

I love #24 and #25. Excellent!

Awsome work! #25 is making me drool!

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CorvusCroax wrote: The way the the filter works is to have 2 different noise patterns, the A pattern and the B pattern. The way the paint color works now is that it's a tone curve which works along a height band of the overall geometry, and is then occluded so as to only apply to the B Noise Height pattern. So, on number 16 above, you can see that the yellow paint only applies to the orb things, (B Noise pattern= orbs in this case) but it wraps all the way around it. What I mean by 'more complexity' is just that it would be not simply slavishly follow the height at a fixed level, but somehow move up and down it, to emphasize the geometry. I was thinking of making the width of the stripes vary somehow... but I'm not sure how to do that yet. I was thinking generating the stripe twice, at 2 differnt widths, and then doing a threshold between them. Or something like that. Do you have any suggestions of better ways to do this?

Hi Corvus,

Not necessarily better, for it gets pretty random, but you could threshold a low frequency noise gradient (with roughness = 0) and get a varying number of varying-size stripes.

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CorvusCroax wrote: I was also thinking that it might be fun to let FF read in an external file, and then use it for the paint shape. So one could have a little library of racing stripes an what-not.

Could get a bit complex, but you could do "3D" painting on those surfaces by using the difference between two "booleans." By this I mean, you could have (for instance) a smooth, low-frequency horizontal noise gradient mixed in lighten mode for the low threshold and then a bit lighter noise gradient mixed for the hihg threshold and get the painting areas from the difference of those two (the areas between the low and the high thresholds). This would give you lines that vary in thickness vertically, painted along the sides of the hull.

Or use different types of noise (or curve them in various ways) to get different techno/stair-step patterns etc.

(Is this explanation incomprehensible? If so, I can draw a diagram of what I mean.)

BTW:

#24 = Awesome
#25 = Incredible

Those hexagonally oriented pipes are a real winner, as are the organic shapes of the walls. They truly look intelligently (as opposed to randomly) constructed.

There's even something "insect-like" in them which makes them look like they're meant to fly (no pun intended).

TD

Hey, Rock Fracture 01 went High Use. My first! Woot!

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6422.html

Okay, here's the height paint idea in graphic form.



Think of the diagrams as cross sections of the height information. The top one would be your height map, the other two low frequency noise patterns. You would isolate the area between the low and high noise pattern to come up with a paint area and apply it to the image height (only where it coincides with the paint area).

The filter forge output would be rendered from the top-down view, not from this side view, but that's the idea.

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ThreeDee wrote: Okay, here's the height paint idea in graphic form.

Oh, I see - That's definitely better than how I'm doing it now; which is ( IIRC ) sort of similar but one of the booleans is at 100%, so more of a clipping plane. Also it also uses only the one channels as a source... but I should try different blending modes, such as difference. Hmm...

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CorvusCroax wrote: Oh, I see - That's definitely better than how I'm doing it now; which is ( IIRC ) sort of similar but one of the booleans is at 100%, so more of a clipping plane. Also it also uses only the one channels as a source... but I should try different blending modes, such as difference. Hmm...

Yes, it is the same idea, but instead of using a threshold to clip it at a certain height, the clipping height varies. Any type of noise could be used for it, horizontal noise gradient would probably be fastest. Likely you would want to make it symmetrical in any case. You essentially paint the model from the "side view," which is an interesting approach.

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James wrote: CorvusCroax that sci-fi filter looks great, makes me think of robots

Thanks! The consensus seems to be that they look Macross / anime.
I'll do some 3d-model displacement tests with it later, when I get back from vacation, which should be interesting.

Ok: displacement tests! Egads these take a long time to render....

#37

#39

#41 This is the cool brown texture above. Also looks great as displacement. Great contrast between the smooth flat areas and the greebly gray bits. The hull w/ the streaks also looks great.

#43 This one looks great too ... very manufactured looking. It's like spaceships by Nike. The big bold swaths of color look best, I think. Better than the color in #40 which just follows the topology of the. Maybe if there was the big main paint color, plus a secondary color within that. Hmm...

#45 This is 38 again, with some scale fixes.

#47 This is 37 again, but with scale and displacement issues fixed. Can really see how the mesh topology affects the displacement: where the mesh is nice and regular, like in the torus and the two cylinders in the center, it looks very different than the less regular meshes, like the ones on the left.

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Beliria wrote: Congrats!! I like all the variations that's possible with that filter well done!!

Thanks! Actually I had another one go HU, which is cool. I guess I should make some more filters and get some free FF stuff for my friends.

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Beliria wrote: What software do you do that in CorvusCroax?

For the displacement stuff above, I'm using Vue7 Infinite.

It's pretty nice. The multi-channel rendering is terrific. It also integrates very well with programs like poser and even sketchup.

OK, more displacement tests: #48

This one looks a lot better than i thought it would, actually. The little sphere details are nice.

#50 This one came out a lot less round than I thought it would. Still looks very cool, though. Actually, for sheer shape, if it were green it would look more 'zentradi' than the one above.