Stained Glass by Skybase

I think this is very interesting, beautiful and great idea.

Many others have tried to make this kind of filter ans was not well done, and I think that you are getting it better.

What I like from this filter is that you are NOT trying to take a perfect specific reproduction of the source image, and I like the ABSTRACTED result it offers with all the different mini shapes and the shaded tones of colors that look like the crystal of stained glass.

Thanks very much for making this. I will try it and see what I can get.

This is really awesome and better than I have thought. Really nice. Very well done effects and lovely configuration and structure is created. Very well done the color shades and the textures of crystals, and the color selections from the source.

And here some color butterflies on a grey background

5 flowers in color over a film strip made with Carl´s Film Noir filter

guess what is this

Here is another version with the size pixel reduced to half and also the size in the settings.

Love really much how the filter makes an amazing and wonderful texture of links around the source image and is well balanced and very complex but simple also.

Congratulations for this filter.

I see Homer Simpson riding a yellow horse!

Rendered it in Octane Renderer, PMC kernel, about 30 minute render time. Some hot-pixel removal was used so part of the loss of quality comes from that.

There are 2 shaders involved: specular and glossy. Glossy was used to generate all the metal frames and the specular... for well glass.

I run a Macbook Pro 17 inch from mid 2010
My graphics cad = NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB

Just a mobile chip, nothing fancy.

Yup, Octane uses the video card's ram so happens with some things.

Speaking about bump map, that is a bump map. The one down side about Octane is that it doesn't have displacement mapping. So there's no way to make it bumpier than it looks. Which is mildly unfortunate but oh well, it's just a way octane keeps itself from blowing up the VRAM space. Otherwise, due to the fact that octane voxelizes polygonal geometry, it kinda just makes it hard for GPUs meant more for mobile purposes.

Indigo render can do displacement mapping but I'd have to produce proper geometry for that.

Yeah well I set the render to just go on indefinitely, took a nap, woke up 30 minutes later and found the render pretty good. It hit 860+ samples by that point so that's pretty much done for that scene. Probably looked already presentable at 200+ samples, which was probably done in the first 8 minutes of its render.

I mean the catch is, if in any case I need to deal with much more complex stuff I can send work off to a render farm and get stuff rendered there. I just use Octane because stuff comes out nice with less complex setup.

I always drool over nicer hardware, but you know... got a work with what you got. It's best to work optimally and efficiently if specs are pretty low. I mean, if in any case I do work on high-end VFX work for some Hollywood production yeah sure I'd want some hardcore computer. But I don't plan on doing too much of that on my own anyway. Most people wish for faster computers because its nicer to have faster things, but what most people don't realize is that if you just work optimal and smart, you really don't need super fast machines. In most cases, people just need clean up work and just to keep stuff straight. Sometimes people over complicate structures of 3D or even 2D stuff and that bogs stuff down. It takes a couple years before you learn optimal methods. I can write a whole book on it but most of it is just situational so it really depends on what you're dealing with. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow: nicer computer. But not today.

This filter has won one of my own SA Awards

Congratulations and thanks very much for creating this filter that are so creative, innovative and very well done. Love it much.