LAB#3015 Skybase

Procedural legos.

I do hope you two consider posting this; I could see using that one a lot...

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Skybase Procedural legos

Good and original idea, and well done the distribution of colors and shapes. Like it

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Skybase Aside the traditional lego colors, there's also the image-to-lego mode

Cool and better to have both options so you can choose what you want and this opens many more options.

These examples you have put now remembers me a Photoshop action I have seen some time ago

3D Toy Bricks Photoshop Actions

You can see here how they convert normal images into "toy bricks" or lego style

Until now what Skybase have done is very good and well done and is similar and can be compared in some way to this photoshop action, although the action is really much faster than FF creating this although you do not have the flexibility of modifying settings and presets of FF

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Betis I've been working on the 3Dness

WOW!! This example changes all and makes this original idea unique and surely better than the photoshop actions, and gives a new dimension, and is now really worth much more and makes it more realistic and wins against any other option, and really shows the power of FF.

Congratulations to both for making this, the combined work makes it great.

Casual Pixels, I can send it to you privately. I'm just lacking motivation to submit stuff to the library. (For a lot of reasons)

Turns out more difficult that I imagined provided the way the "tiles" component behaves with solid fill and repeat values.

Some looping patterns.

Are there any other example with the lego bricks using also the 3Dness by Betis?

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Skybase Yes no.

I have to choose between this two if I like it, I have to agree with Xirja and say YES!

Skybase, you have inspired me to make something like the beautiful gradient tiles and I got something similar, although yours is better, more beautiful, elegant, stylish, better organized and more irregular too, but maybe I could find how to make mine better.

Painterly melt.

I like where this is headed! How does it look with black outlines?

I've been painting some series of works for a comic I've been wanting to do. The usage in this entire thing is a bit minimal but I thought I'd discuss it anyway. The stars in this image are faintly present but I basically made a filter that just produces nice, foggy looks. I then blended that into the sky via soft-light blend mode. It's quite faint, but it adds texture to the whole thing.

The painting process and otherwise were done manually.

Note: I just call the image "The SandTrekker" and perhaps the comic would be called that!

Randomness can introduce unique variabilities. The variables can also be animated to produce unique animated pieces. (I'll produce the demos in the near future.)

Note that this filter won't be available publicly due to copyright.

maybe so.

goodbye and thanks.

Beautiful glowing and sparkling balls

Are you OK? Are you tired of working too much without holiday, or is tired in another way?

I hope that you can get well and relax, have time to rest and have a holiday, so you can get better and feel well again.

Skybase, why do you think you post pictures here? Why do you bestow them upon our eyes? Why do you take time out of your busy days to make them?

Could it be because they're gorgeous and you know it?

That said, Spaceray has good advice. We all get like that, just take a break! (Takehiko Inoue can take as looong as he likes with Vagabond, I still love it!)

Beautiful Hexagons filled each one with a specific color inside.

I still have to learn how and experiment on how to fill inside shapes with images.

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Skybase I feel like scrambled eggs reading everything everywhere. I'm tired... very tired. And there's little time for breaks. I don't have holidays

If you are working too much and do not have time for other things than work, and feel helpless and things are not as used to be before, it can become a work burnout

So I'm returning to making these again because I think I figured a nice way of dealing with the paper. Back several months ago I began a small project printing FF designs on tracing paper and while I had results, the rate of failure was significant. The papers themselves were small, and huge margins were needed to keep the paper fr om wrinkling.

After some digging around and trying several packs of transparent paper, I landed on something that worked. Paper weight: 65g, B4 size (international standard), tracing paper. It's basically on the bounds of it being not too thick but not too thin. The colors come out correctly and the margins don't need to be huge. The print comes out right.

So with the upgraded filter at hand (has more patterns) I feel like producing a bunch of these pieces of paper for folding paper purposes. What's cool is that no paper is ever the same. Each paper has its own unique pattern.

And just out of curiosity... anybody want these?

== Side note ==
I quite find it funny how all I see are two names in the recent forum posts list: me and SpaceRay. SpaceRay taking up around 70% of the responses. hah. Where are all the other voices? lol. I miss people a lot these days!

Regarding the printer: It really seems like anything does fine. I have an Epson PX-5500 with the legendary rollsheet feed.

Umm... hexagons (actually let me say a couple things):
I'm lately torn on sharing stuff honestly, my whole psyche has changed over the last couple months. I've had a couple complicated situations where I really had to reflect on what I share online. I'm not against the idea, I just find less comfort, less incentive overall. I lately find myself amongst a smaller group, sharing amongst friends away from public scrutiny. I really just want to remain quiet at the same time still leave the door somewhat open.

Though still, I guess I'll upload the old version of the little Hexagon thing I made with Uberzev's snippet to the library. To be fair, I think the community can use some fresh take on hexagon tiling methods done by the folks back from the 1.0 era. I updated the components to the latest and did some other things just to help myself. (I get bothered seeing old component versions amongst new ones... heh).

It's difficult living a dream.

Well I do know it's not like I'm obligated. I was just being responsible (just in my thoughts really.) There's just another reason.... I've been here since the Mac version 1.0 and a lot of discussions back then were very creation-centric. I just hope we kinda get that sort of thing back and running. I really just wanna hear a bunch of voices again. People have all sorts of other methods I would have not seen or missed, and I value different ideas for a solution. So I guess I can say that I went on the forums "to see cool stuff happen" and I really value creativity / ingenuity like that. I really miss that excitement. In some ways I expect way too much I guess. But I grew up on expectations. And I still love what I do anyway.

Oh well. *Shrug* note: nothing here is directed at anybody.

Aside the drama, I've been working on a concept for a filter that might be interesting. I'll probably talk about it once I'm ready.

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Just another loop thing.

Wow, love much your latest creative and artistic loop thing, I have tried something similar with kaleidoscope before having seen this example but did not work as expected, because looks too much kaleidoscope style

Maybe when I learn much more about FF I could be able to make things like this

From now on I will only admire your beautiful works images you kindly share and I agree with you in that you do not want to share the secret of how was done to the public and is perfectly understandable and you have already explained very well

I'm just demonstrating the fact that these can go at ridiculous resolutions (this is 2480x3508). The seed here is the same as the previous image so nothing too different!

My plan's to add all sorts of other elements. So plan your trip!

Nice! Look at those oceans, and those little islands scattered 'round
Have you tried mapping it to a sphere, just to see?