LAB#3015 Skybase
Kraellin
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urban art. cool  If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig |
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| Posted: April 3, 2010 1:42 pm | ||||
Skybase
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Kinda like a double post.
I made this for the 2010 new years using that cubey generator thing I uploaded some time ago.   |
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| Posted: April 4, 2010 3:03 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Yeah... I know... it's another world out there. |
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| Posted: April 4, 2010 3:16 am | ||||
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Kraellin
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any way to make those spiral galaxies not quite so regularly shaped? they look a bit more like pinwheels than galaxies currently. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig |
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| Posted: April 4, 2010 8:48 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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I worked on the filter some more after the actual post. Here are some large renders which I did.
They're 3500X4500 px.  |
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| Posted: April 13, 2010 1:13 am | ||||
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Skybase
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"Take That" is ... well I don't know, it's abstract, wild and somehow very pinkish. |
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| Posted: April 13, 2010 1:13 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Lately I've been into glitch art and abstractions based on random occurances or problems. Sometimes, just letting the computer do its job is a neat thing. It results in highly sophisticated, complex, and unconventional forms and compositions.
Of course, you have to program it to get there. These renders, by the way, don't take very long to render on my dual core computer. Again (as I posted earlier in the Beta2 Gallery thread) it's got no AO which means that I faked much of the ambient occlusion. It actually looks cool without it as well. Maybe I'll upload it sometime when I render it.  |
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| Posted: April 13, 2010 1:17 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Color Schemer is a fresh new utility I began constructing using the new FilterForge 2 nodes which came out with the 3rd beta.
Color Schemer was intended as a tool to aid artists find the right color combination. It consequently also dazzles you with various colors that go kinda nicely toghether. So if you need a color scheme, this can be a tool for you. I'm in the stage of adding more features to it  |
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| Posted: April 13, 2010 6:05 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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So... the idea is to feed an image and get colors out of it. Then use the color picker to choose some color you might be inspired by.
It's just a tool for that sort of purpose.  |
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| Posted: April 13, 2010 6:15 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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Continuing on with this utility, since yesterday I added several more features to make it a bit better (least for myself.)
Now it can display a very (simple) and special graph that allows you to see how much dark colors you have visually. The darker the image, the higher these bars will be. Of course, this is more of a gimmick and I didn't intend this to be practical in anyway. But it's a visual indication of color and its relation with lights and darks. Oh and just as an idea, I thought it'd be nice if I knew where the colors came from. So I made a tiny image tag that goes on the top right hand side. You can turn it on or off.  |
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| Posted: April 14, 2010 11:52 pm | ||||
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Kraellin
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hmmm, how about doing a histogram? If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig |
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| Posted: April 15, 2010 4:30 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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ThreeDee took care of that some time ago |
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| Posted: April 15, 2010 5:54 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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Pattern Lab! YAY! A bomber based pattern generator using triangles, squares, and circles!
You can manually control or let the computer do your job. Here are some samples  |
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| Posted: April 25, 2010 11:31 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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And another one |
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| Posted: April 25, 2010 11:32 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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And another one!
yes you can make very very complex patterns in a matter of several clicks.  |
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| Posted: April 25, 2010 11:32 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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And once again... its easy to use. Very very simple and yet complex. |
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| Posted: April 25, 2010 11:33 pm | ||||
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Kraellin
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i like your pattern generator. dilla might even like it since the kaleidoscopic pattern isnt evident. If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig |
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| Posted: April 25, 2010 11:58 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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Just aside from the actual FilterForge thing, I found Sikuli, a python based screenshot-programming language and I decided to have some fun with it.
I made a script that basically renders me as many patterns (using pattern lab v 1) as I want. It's easy to use... kinda like making a macro for yourself. Sikuli can temporary use your mouse to click / doubleClick / drag n drop / and otherwise. It can do neat things. Go check out Sikuli off of google. By the way, I do know the existence of command line renders, its just that this was awesome.  |
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| Posted: April 30, 2010 2:22 am | ||||
Totte
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Skybase, you should take a look at my FF Batch Master for Mac OS X. - I never expected the Spanish inquisition |
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| Posted: April 30, 2010 3:40 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Oh I haven't forgotten about it. It came into great use when I totally needed 100 patterns out of 100% randomness. I must have just not hit "post reply" when I wrote a commentary to it. In essence, Batch Master is damn useful. Obviously better than that script I made.
Sikuli's just a nice visual approach to scripting and I thought I put it here. High five on the Batch Master, it's seriously come in handy in various situations when I needed a serious number of things. So far, I haven't found trouble with it. |
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| Posted: April 30, 2010 8:03 pm | ||||
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Totte
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Great to hear Skybase, I use it myself a lot, thats why I wrote it. I need to figure out a way to do color modifications, haven't done that yet.
If you have a cool idea on how colors should be "morphed" like from this to that (and how that is done) , please let me hear you. I use sliders -> colors now in my own filters tat I batchrender. - I never expected the Spanish inquisition |
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| Posted: May 1, 2010 2:06 am | ||||
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Skybase
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I modified Pattern Lab to just use Hue / Saturation adjustments for now to get differnet variations of color. But a color mod would help a lot within the program. I'm probably just going to find ways around it, such as make RGB sliders for the batch render edition. Makes life kinda easy, but that to me is just going around to avoid the problem. Figures. Maybe the program can literally just randomize / morph the HEX values or something. I mean, even RGB values can work. |
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| Posted: May 1, 2010 6:09 pm | ||||
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Totte
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The values in the xmlfiles are decimal numbers, like 0.5476337437. So if I'm gonna do anything "useful" I need to first make "colors" of them , then come up with a way to describe a sweep. Random is simpler, but I still need to set bounderies. A sweep, should than be able to have different curves for R, G, B for example?
That is easier in ff filter script, having a slider or 3 to randomize instead. - I never expected the Spanish inquisition |
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| Posted: May 2, 2010 2:21 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Oh hai. Long time no update here. I've been cranking out, playing around with the new features of filterforge, and came to the conclusion that my head is going to burst.
To get myself started I wanted a better FilterForge 2.0 version of those manga zoom lines. I mean this is great: http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2197.html but it didn't work well with me since I was just trying to get the zoomlines. So to work around it here's something I made.  |
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| Posted: June 17, 2010 9:16 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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And another sample. Note that you can increase / reduce the number of lines. Also change the position of where the lines go. I'm planning to add a couple more features so its not JUST a tool for making lines go somewhere. Anyway.... peace |
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| Posted: June 17, 2010 9:18 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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Pseudocoloring!!! And Photochrom styles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom Ok this is still in the works, but it does have a distinctive CMY process and RGB processes. The example's a bit dim, but I can do some fixing for that. Want a retro feel? I think this filter will do.  |
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| Posted: June 25, 2010 7:41 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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Here's another, BETTER example.
Strictly speaking this pseudo coloring process is done by hand. Photochroms aren't, they're done through negatives. So I'm marrying two different processes in 1 filter.  |
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| Posted: June 25, 2010 7:44 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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It's a "pseudo maze" but you can try going from one end to the other. It works.
This is just one way I've been playing around with the bomber to achieve a specific style / look for several up coming filters. Not so hard, just a matter of tweaks.  |
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| Posted: June 30, 2010 9:31 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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Here's an earlier version without the glow.
HAS anybody done this already? Pretty sure somebody must have hit the right combo and got awesome stuff.  |
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| Posted: June 30, 2010 9:33 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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Here's something I was inspired by SilentHill3. Bloody, gorey, fleshy... strange.... texture  With AO + reflective AO it takes a while to render, but its wonderful  |
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| Posted: July 8, 2010 7:33 am | ||||
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Totte
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Really gruesome texture - I never expected the Spanish inquisition |
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| Posted: July 8, 2010 7:51 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Here's a simple window frame I made Has the life saver default background. |
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| Posted: July 8, 2010 10:08 am | ||||
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Totte
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Simple? I feel sorry for that poor carpenter carving those pixels - I never expected the Spanish inquisition |
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| Posted: July 8, 2010 10:10 am | ||||
opal1
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I really like this look, kind of moody with a shallow depth of field look. There is nothing so simple that I cannot complicate it. I try to think of it as a gift. |
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| Posted: July 8, 2010 2:08 pm | ||||
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opal1
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This would be a wonderful background with such a subtle look. There is nothing so simple that I cannot complicate it. I try to think of it as a gift. |
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| Posted: July 8, 2010 2:09 pm | ||||
Indigo Ray
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Yeah, I made a rudimentary maze filter with the bomber a while back. I don't think it is actually solvable, though. Also, that "gorey" filter looks pretty nice, or whatever the correct equivalent of nice is for bloody flesh. And keep up on the window and the zoom lines. "Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana." -Groucho Marx |
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| Posted: July 8, 2010 2:27 pm | ||||
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Skybase
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The bomber mazes arrive!! Probably the simplest way to make anything.
The thing is, I'm trying to make it solvable just with bombers and so on which turns out to be quite a task. Might as well make a script. Yes. Might... as well.... |
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| Posted: July 9, 2010 12:10 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Metal plate texture + some rust. Made it originally for a Maya scene, I decided to expand it. Ambient Occlusion is enabled on these. Kinda ... dark. |
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| Posted: July 15, 2010 4:21 am | ||||
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Skybase
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And... another one. |
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| Posted: July 15, 2010 4:21 am | ||||
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Skybase
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And another one.... |
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| Posted: July 15, 2010 4:21 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Speaking of this filter, I'm basing the little "rust corners" you see based on CorvusCroax's Corner Finder Color snipplet. It's been modified to suit this, but the algorithm is the same.
HEY maybe we can have some nails in these too. Might be cool. For the time being, I think this looks pretty good. Just needs some controls and a tweak before release. |
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| Posted: July 15, 2010 4:27 am | ||||
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Skybase
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I'm too lazy to draw lately. So I decided to make a filter that worked for me. |
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| Posted: July 21, 2010 3:03 am | ||||
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Skybase
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Another one |
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| Posted: July 21, 2010 3:03 am | ||||
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Skybase
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And another one.
Kinda looks like some nice vector art.  |
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| Posted: July 21, 2010 3:04 am | ||||
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manifold
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We reposted a couple of your images from this thread on the FF Facebook page -- hope you don't mind! | |||
| Posted: July 22, 2010 9:57 am | ||||
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