Patterns, Patterns, Patterns...

While the implementation of new patterns obviously has abysmally low priority in the current state of FF, ...

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Vladimir Golovin wrote elsewhere: Our codebase for pattern components is currently based on rounded rectangles, and to introduce hexagonal tiling (or any tiling based on non-rectangular polygons) will require a new codebase. We'll probably rewrite it in the future, but this is currently a low-priority item.

... I thought it might be nice to have a thread where we can compile our pattern wishes.

MAZES

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Truchet Tiling

Cool. If I understand it correctly, then this component would be a pattern generator rather than a pattern, and in a way be similar to Kaleidoscope in that it would require a source image input. This source image would be filled into each tile, but rotated randomly in 90 degree steps.

Should be quite useful.

Yeah well I'm working on that as well CFandM.

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CFandM wrote: Cool how far did you get? I posted here just now. http://www.filterforge.com/forum/read...4&TID=1185

Well it's still in development.

Anyway I can't seem to find any tiling on that filter you posted.

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CFandM wrote: Here is the snippet. [ Truchet Tiling and More.ffxml ]

What your missing the the random rotational element. Check out my example...

http://uberzev.googlepages.com/TruchetTiling.ffxml

Looks like I am still working on this one
Kinda of interesting. The same goal using different methods..

Btw... here's my Spiral 'snippet' from above. I really wish we had a dedicated component for the many types of spirals and vortex/whirlpool shapes there are.

Puh! That was one repetitive sucker to build. And it only works on square images...



The Downward Spiral.ffxml

They both look great uberzev..
The one I was working on is turning out to be not as speedy.
Guess I will move along to another filter..
But first sleep...

Any Image Truchet Tiling.ffxml

a PIPE/TUBE GENERATOR...

No fancy dials/wheels as in the stupid example below, just random mazes of pipes/tubes with control over the profile.

Yeah, what was it called again? Pipe Mania, I think!

an L-SYSTEM GENERATOR

As you can see on the wiki page, you can use l-systems for far more than just plant-like growth. That's why we need one...

Heres the FF filter

More Patterns.ffxml

wire framing... cool

IMO all their script- and expression-based stuff should be integrated in one place. Mandelbrot is nice (already on the long-term list).

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Crapadilla wrote: Except for maybe this one.

I guess this can be generalized as a Bomber with spiky/hairy particles colored after the pixel at their center.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: a Bomber with spiky/hairy particles

Delicious!

'Bomber' is just a fancy term for a particle generator, a component that 'sprays'/'bombs'/'scatters' particles over an image.

thanks, dilla.

so, how is a 'bomber' any different from 'add noise'? and would you consider 'add noise' to be a bomber?

i'm guessing that a bomber might have far more capabilities than a simple add noise, but if you could point me to some examples of images using bombers, that might help.

hmmm, ok. sprites... last time i used anything called a sprite was when i had my C-64. these were machine resident/generated animators of sorts. objects that you could move around and collide with other stuff, like the arcade game space invaders or pac man. the moving objects were sprites. there were also 'bobs' or blitter objects. these were the same thing, only not chip-resident, so you could make as many as you wanted. they were just slower as you added more. the sprites were limited to 16, iirc.

so, ok, i take what you said and it sounds a lot like overlays, only more animated and fluid in nature.

thanks, dilla.

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Crapadilla wrote: I'm currently absorbing some info about Texture Maker, just to see if it might be a worthy addition to the arsenal or not. While it seems that 99% of what you can do with TM can already be done by PS+FF, I came across some interesting stuff concerning patterns nevertheless:

That program has some pretty sweet features. I hope FF assimilates all their technology.