uberBlend - (This changes everything)

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Ghislaine wrote: Is that what you want Spaceray ?

No, sorry, this is not what I want, as this would be easy to do, and I know how to do it.

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SpaceRay wrote: I am thinking on filling all the cells of INSIDE SHAPES of the spiro with images, but really I still do not know how to do it.

I mean I want the opposite that you have done, NOT touch the wires that makes the Spiro

AND there are TWO ways I am thinking to do it

1 - The image would be modified to fill the the inside parts in the same way BUT following the SAME ORIENTATION that the spirograph design have, so you will need to break the image into lots of different parts and make it follow the spirograph shape.

I have done this in Photoshop that shows the image filling the inside shapes. I have only made a few ones so you can see what I mean

HOW TO INCREASE THE LINE WIDTH OF THE UBERBLENDSTAR?

I have tried also to make thicker and bold lines for the uberblendstar shape but do not know how to do it.

It would be good if you could enlarge the lines width and that all the graphic enlarges too proportionally to the witdh of the lines, because if you make the lines thicker but the graphic is not enlarged proportionally it will look bad.

No, Carl, there is only available the pre-release version of the filter available in the previous pages.

You guys might like this...
http://www.subblue.com/projects/guilloche

HOW TO INCREASE THE LINE WIDTH OF THE UBERBLENDSTAR?

I have tried also to make thicker and bold lines for the uberblendstar shape but do not know how to do it.

Also I do not know if it really would be possible.

It would be good if you could enlarge the lines width and that all the graphic enlarges too proportionally to the witdh of the lines, because if you make the lines thicker but the graphic is not enlarged proportionally it will look bad.

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HOW TO INCREASE THE LINE WIDTH OF THE UBERBLENDSTAR?

Easiest way is to plug a different shape to the lookup source:

Thanks very much Morgantao, I tried some way that did not work, and will try your way and see what I can do. Great and easy solution I do not know how is possible that I did not think about this before

Perhaps you want to know WHY I want to make the lines thicker, well for many reasons, but one of them is to be able to vectorize the shape much better than with thin lines.

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Ghislaine wrote: Is that what you want Spaceray ?

This is simple to do, as you only have to change the "low" color control of the first threshold and put it to allow images, and that is all.

I have added also some more controls that make other effects.

another one

and changing the blending mode to 1 and reducing the threshold to 3 and increasing the smooth to 59

I will have to learn and see HOW to use this uberblend as shown on the first page, that think can be much more useful than I thought.

http://www.subblue.com/projects/guilloche

Perfect example of the type of new noise/pattern/fractal components FF should pursue...

what happened with this ?

There is no more development or news about this very interesting, great and useful thing?

The loop component will give you more options and probably it's easier to control behavior of each iteration.

However, this is FilterForge, a really really flexible piece of program. If you find this particular method useful, I say use it. In some cases loops might be a bit slower to render... but in other cases it might give you more in the long run.

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loops could be easier to control the behavior, is more difficult and complex to use and understand,

Yes, although I argue loops may be actually more simpler in this case. Uber's method is relatively advanced in the sense that it does utilize a trick advanced users of the program would know but beginners won't understand immediately. It doesn't mean that this method is super complicated though, but it's premise isn't as instant as how you'd compile this thing similarly in loops.

Screenshot below shows you how a loops version would look like. Note how the transformations are exposed for easy editing.