The Disquisitions of Betis

here, look at this one: http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/...e_Full.jpg

or this one: http://www.justmommies.com/blog/wp-co...nge(1).jpg

Hey Betis,

Love the light Beam glow filter! That's a keeper! Are you trying to come up with a name? Confused.. How about ..well, let me know on that, ok.

Have a good evening!

Ron

hehe, yeah, the link came from google image search, so i take no association with it whatsoever!

New Filter in the forge

A virtual frame for your beloved photos or paintings!

I will be utterly astonished if that doesn't get an EP.
A minor critique, I find the outside edges are juuust a bit harsh in their transition to the background. I'd also soften the corners a tiny, tiny bit, like throw on a 0.1% blur in the corner shape.

Yeah, the frame. There's no transition to the BG, If I were doing this is PS, i'd add a really tiny Outer Glow to the frame to soften the transition.
That may just be my personal taste there. But, if you look at real-world picture frames that are flat against the wall, there IS some influence on the wall color from the frame. It due to light bouncing from the frame edge and onto the wall. This is actually faked in 3d apps with Global Radiosity and is incredibly processor intensive, but try throwing on a small "reverse" drop shadow in the frame color and see how it looks.

I could be completely out to lunch though. It may also just be the JPEG compression.

Actually I have that, but it's more subtle and requires a stricter condition. Here's an example:

It's only reflected on the sides that the "sun" is hitting. And only brighter colors really show up, but it applies to all colors.

Suggestions?

Hey Betis,

I love your new VERY COOL FRAME!

Speaking of LOVE, PLEASE don't forget this:

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Betis wrote: Quote Ron, it's called Beams of Electromagnetic Radiation! (Light is Electromagnetic Radiation)

HOW MUCH LONGER MUST WE ALL WAITE? ? ? ?

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

There are some limitations due to the "engine" I'm using. For example, putting the background as wallpaper, wood, or drapery may prove to be difficult. This is because it works like putting a coat of paint (your color of choice) on a heightmap. Different walls do not have different surface properties other than height. I will try some suggestions, though, just because I would like to try and have a greater variety on walls.

No, I'm not talking about the reflections, its the whole frame and picture literaly (dirty mock-up):

Two years later...
Where's that Beams of Electromagnetic Radiation filter!?
We wants it. We needs it!

Better ideas are always good

The environment is really hard to make... I feel like I'm going backwards trying to tweak everything... here's what it looked like before this last render

Just FF and some gradient scale components for the perspective, and a derivative of the heightmap plugged into an offset component.

Oh boy, that looks so realistic!

Ooh the shadows and shininess! It almost looks like some objects are reflecting off of each other, is that right? Considering that you didn't anti-alias the renderings, the render time is approximately Burj Khalifa?

Cool and well done colorful 3D molecules with those shadows and light reflections and the different color hues that this makes and makes them more realistic.

Seeing this remembers me something I have seen that was made with drops of waters instead of these molecules, and in each drop was reflected a small image, so with this I had the idea that I could suggest you as an idea if you like to be able to reflect a little in some way some small images in these beautiful molecules you have done, but this is only a suggestion, and do not know if it would look good or not.

Thanks a lot, Betis, that screenshot actually helped me! It's not that complicated, actually.

Catch with the current method I think doesn't work too nice with geometric stuff. It seems to work pretty well with some situations though.

WOW! Well done. From my point of view, I really like much more and love more this second example that does not have those perfect spherical molecules, and gives this new beautiful and curious mix of abstract shapes. It´s not that the first one is wrong in any way, is that is more simple and usual, and this new one is out of ordinary and more unusual, and so I like it more.



Although I do not know and can´t understand how you have done this, and things like are only possible from FF experts like you or others FF gods in the forum

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Betis The purpose of this filter is to basically replace the surface node. You can give it all the same inputs (besides reflection blur for now). Has the ability to use internally generated environments for shading, and because it's a node (group), you can continue the filter after processing through it.

WOW!! Is this true? Have you been able to make a new "Result surface" component replacement? From your text, I understand that the answer is YES.

And I agree with you that the problem with the result surface component is that you CAN´T continue adding components AFTER the result surface component, so if you have made the miracle of making a replacement would be really great.

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