[C]uberism Mapped

WOW !! Like much the new updated version !! Very well done the new borders AND the great shading effect for each borders and now looks really much better and the borders are now perfect (before there was some slighty problem with them) and is more realistic.

And like also the idea of masking the inner cube side with rounded corners or even a circle mask

AND I have been already trying to make the rotation inside the sides of the cube but whe I have done it then the border would not work right and tried other way, but was giving errors, and now you have added this too.

and also is more organized in some way and better

Thanks very much

my "beautiful" masking

any hint on how to do it right ?

Thanks

Pretty sweet there uber..
Its one of those filters to make me hit my forehead with my hand while saying "Why did I not think of that"...

Here is better seen the mask of the FF Lifesaver

Now I have tried more things and the cubes are broken if you try to use the "size pixels" settings, and in others ways do not even work, so I will have to see another ways but do not know much how to make it as I have not enough skills and experience for this, and even looking to another filters is not enough to know how to make it here.

Could be possible to know HOW this really works and how the cubes are built to be able to modify them and add the masking and missing ones ?

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Could be possible to know HOW this really works and how the cubes are built to be able to modify them and add the masking and missing ones ?

That's your homework then

Sorry SR, I have to throw in the towel on this one...
I tried making a mask the way you want, but I had some unexpected results that ruin the effect. I can't seem to get the whole cubes with the mask, so I get half cubes, or even quarter cubes.

Not sure if you guys have suffered enough yet

... wait... what do you mean by missing cubes?

Let's just make it simple, been digging through forums too much to understand what your goals are. I think once you define it, you'd be able to see where to go.

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uberzev wrote: Not sure if you guys have suffered enough yet

If you want I will suffer more trying even more to make it and continue in my way destroying of the cubes

I should follow the quote from Edison

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By Tomas Edison in the way of inventing the light bulb I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/aut...ZGAKRcf.99

Well, although I said I would try more, I finally I gave up making this as explained in the link of the thread above (I do not have the knowledge to make it, so even trying much would not make it), and forgot to put here the very well done solution that Skybase has been so kind to make and found a excellent way to do it and he uploaded it here in this thread (direct link)

Thanks really very much to uberzev and Skybase for making this possible and have made this awesome filter in the way I wanted and with their great knowledge and skills.

And here another possible example done in Photoshop to show this

Well after some test and trials and thinking how could be done I have got something that could work, is not at all the best way to do it, as surely there could be a much better one, but until now I have not found it or can´t think of another way.

I have duplicated four times the same filter and then mixed the results of each filter with blend components at 0 or 100 value (with slider) and also using the 4 individual knockout sliders so when one of the cubes disappear the one below from the other filter can appear.

BUT this only works if use DIFFERENT MASKS for each one of the 4 filters! I have used one checkered random squared mask and then on the second filter I inverted the mask so it would be the opposite and so you could mix both of them. On the third I inverted the mask in photoshop and then loaded as a mask, and then on the fourth I inverted this mask.

So using this awkward way I have got this shown below made inside FF and not in Photoshop as I have shown above of this post.

You can see with the blue arrows that there are 4 different cubes

HERE IS THE MASK I HAVE USED TO MIX THE 4 CUBES

Here is the random checker board I have created in Photoshop specially for this filter and made it with black and transparency so I could make the above example to be able to show the 4 cubes and MIX them together after modifying and searching for the best opacity and knockout settings.

It is a 24 kbytes PNG24 file with transparency (although it is not shown here)

For the cubes 3 and 4 I have inverted this mask so it was different from the cubes 1 and 2

If you have another idea for a different kind of mask that could work better, please tell it here, thanks.

I have thought to make 4 complementing and different mask, and put each one on each of the 4 cubes, bur need to think about how to do these 4 masks, so perhaps this way would be easier.

I really to difficult to control the 4 cubes appearing this way and it out of control, I think I will need to think to make another kind of mask that works better than this one or if possible find another way to do it

Why for mixing two things there is only the blend and multiblend with the opacity?

Here is a 4 cubes composition with 12 images rendered from results of FF

I have had another idea with this filter, instead of LOADING images into the cubes, why not generated the images from inside Filter Forge from other filters?

I thought that it would probably not work, but I was wrong and it works very well, at least with the filter I have tested it that is this one 10 Images or Photo Stripes Mix

And is very easy, just and only replace the color control input with the filter result

The good thing of this idea is that this way the inside of the is configurable with the filter result and not only with a normal plain image

In this case instead of multiple source I have all the same source for all sides but adding shadows and light that was not available before, this is done very easily just adding a blend component to the source of each side and then configure the opacity to simulate the shadow or light.

And after the two examples above I want to try with a seamless tiling filter that will create a seamless texture over all the cubes, and as I thought the texture tiles very well over all the cubes.

For this one I like the Truchet Tiling - Basic Circular by uberzev

And got this result shown below

In this case if you do not put a border, it looses the cube perspective and misses the 3D cube effect.

As said above the advantage of having the filter conected directly to the cubes, is that you still have all the controls for the original filter AND also the controls of the cubes, so you can customize it easier than rendering the result on the filter and then load the result into the cubes in this other filter.

And have found these cubes that inspire to build 2d images to paste on the FF cubes and build 3d illusions

And more

One more that uses textures instead of plain colors applied to the frames or to the triangles to give the false illusion of 3D hollow cubes

And with only 3 colors and repeating the same design in all the cubes to make a whole pattern

Or you could use zentangle textures designs on each side of the cube using up to 12 different designs that my filter above allows and repeat them in the cubes as show above in multiple ways