Smooth Stones Mosaic

Looks like it has something to do with cell noise. Other than that, your guess is as good as mine

Well you're half way there. Now make the cells completely irregular while almost touching.

This looks beatiful and delicate with organical round bubble shapes for stones. Like it much

It reminds me in some way to the Antoni Gaudi Mosaics like for example this one







BUT yours have beautiful round "ceramics" instead of straight hard edges, well done.

Surely you have used one of your many surprising tricks and hacks to make this in a different way than the usual one

I have made this example below with the Cells component and high pass and then blending with a darken blend mode and used the surface result but obviously this DOES NOT follow the shape and change the colors of the stones based on the source colors.

I think I perhaps know how you have done this, can it be using your uberblend ?

Because on your previous version of your Irregular Mosaic multiple components that needed to be joined and perhaps with your new uberblend is easier and more simple

OH!! Thanks very much for this Pre-release version

Now looking at HOW this has been done is much more complex

I LOVE IT and is very well done and give interesting and weird results and is MUCH more than a mosaic filter!!!

Cool effects with opossite mode

Really love and like much the look and how well done the effect of the mosaic is, congratulations for making this great filter.

And awesome and very interesting result of the opposite mode that make it look like punched holes paper

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WOW changing the Grout color and reducing the Grout width I got this Wonderful and awesome design with a Color Wheel as source

And the same one as above here BUT unchecking the opposite mode gives this real beauty

Oh, I was SO close!
I also had Elipse connected to Bomber.


There ends the resemblance....

and activating opposite mode nice MAGIC happens

This is using the Lionfish built in image loaded as main image and the kingfisher inside the color control in the settings.

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So here's the question: when you feed out RGB channels and then feed them into Assemble HLS, through the bomber, back out to HSY (to levels) what's going on there? How does that work?

The fact that I separate my image into RGB channels is not important. I could just as easily used LAB. The only goal there is to get 3 greyscale channels ready for further operations.

So now we need to "embed" the channel data without affecting the lighten operation.

Inside the bomber this leaves us with the Hue and Saturation Channels to work with. Hue is nice and straightforward, but Saturation requires some massaging.

First we have to consider that were only applying the tint at 0.001 or so. Therefore were going to need a levels on the other end set to the same value to restore the data.

The contrast is there to prevent errors that occur when processing pure black or white.




*The HSY extract was chosen due to the way it handles saturation. Other channel formulas showed remnants of the cell shape.

Thanks Uber for the explanation! makes so much more sense now

Yup. I remembered that thread. I recall scratching my head on that one post! Heh. It's still a head scratcher but it makes much more sense and it's been nearly 2 years heh

and with the same source and setting but changing the load source in control color

I like that in the white parts there is no web texture and in the red part is very well finished in a irregular way

And also good to know that with this you could also make nice frames

and with dark background

the opposite mode is really an excellent thing!! love it

another example from this excellent filter