Suggestion of GRADIENT SHAPES (not only circles) filter for Skybase

And a more complex design with rows of flowers and white background

I can´t stop testing this wonder and fantastic filter that is so amazing and gives so awesome results and that SO MANY POSSIBILITIES !!!

AND ALSO IMPORTANT THAT IS THIS IS FAST ENOUGH !!

To render a 2000x2000 it takes only a few seconds ! So is not only a wonderful filter by design, also a very efficient and optimized one too!

And this is the last example I put for now because I can´t keep seeing so much beauty and having this high emotion more time.

and the lower part of the one above also in bigger size

Morgantao I have to say that what I wrote was real and was really happening and was not a joke, but do not worry Morgantao I am better now after so much emotion I have recovered and I am not in danger anymore

Here another different design

This is the source image from Ghislaine Atom Generator



This is done with the Gradient Shapes Beta of Skybase with triangles

And as the above can´t really be seen well, here is a close up in more detail

The color has NOT been given by the filter, as obviously the result of a black and white source must be black, white and a shade of greys, so I have made a layer overlay with lots of colors and then applied it using the "Color" blend mode.

Cool examples Spaceray !

Here are some parrots that the molecules of their body have been converted to visible atoms except their face, so they can still see and eat.

... I'm fixing more things that seem "off" about the filter. Hopefully I can put it out on the library soon.

Here is a color wheel example

another

stars

curly

3 point stars filled

If you reach here first, please look for the other 10 examples above.

Thanks very much Skybase for this awesome and amazing filter and so easy to change the shapes and configure them with very few sliders.

Here is the Arrows variation

I guess you can put the mod version here and see what happens.... I basically just took the suggestion as is and tried it out... and I quote myself saying this when it worked after several iterations, "It looks nice, it does what it does, but man... the usability is like beached whale." I'll explain in detail later but it's basically the difficulty in finding the right balance for what a filter can do. It either becomes bloated with features or it becomes too restrictive and gets boring after several uses.

Final version of Gradient "Circles" is now in the library queue. It's just cleaned up, nothing too fresh happened since aside fr om me fixing a couple obvious issues.

Multiple shapes, complex shapes is not available in this version. There's no way to work it out correctly and while the results are what most would expect, the controls are terrible and it sucks using it.

Details: when designing this filter it's notable that the suggestion here takes into account the interests in utilizing multiple shapes to produce further, complex iterations of shapes. The variations look nice but don't the resulting set of controls produced based on this was basically a hinderance than a good thing. Put it this way, when you want more control for 1 shape, you need controllers. The more controllers you have per shape, the better it is for the user, but the more controls it has, the less usable it becomes. By the time I was adding the 5th shape, the filter was just bloated with too many parameters. We can always try lim iting the number of controls but that's just restrictive.

Furthermore by having other shapes like hearts, arrows, and little galaxies and stuff, I ran into the same problem. More controllers or none. Gets boring very quickly when you don't have enough to play around with, nor is it fun to manage so many controllers that only serve a single purpose. It is also notable that canned shapes get boring super quickly You know, you want tons of shapes if you want to have variety.

It sounds restrictive on my part but believe me, it sucked when I tried it all. If you're just looking for the effect of it it's cool but its nowhere near a good filter as a simple, single shape version.

Lastly if anybody wants to really dive into those problems you should. Having a "mini library of parameters" or any form of index of attributes is something that needs to be addressed in FilterForge. It's not a major issue, but it's something that can be solved in various ways.

Either way that's all I have. Have fun with the filter.

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About the "canned" shapes, you could always use the color control to add custom shapes from black and white images. But first one should solve the too many controls issue.

There's a version in my library that accepts black and white images or selections. I just didn't throw it in this version because I got lazy lol

Another example of letters invasion of the Lionfish

This filter is a lifesaver

This is far away higher from the sea to see it better