Golf Ball by DJI

Golf Ball by DJI
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/12540.html

Thanx for your comment and suggestion CaliCoastReplay. I'll look into that. Also i think the edges could bend back just a hair more to make it look really spherical. I myself couldn't get it. Maybe someone else can show us the way.

This is very good and realistic and well done effect, but I have the feeling that the ball is not really spherical and looks more like a well done golf ball texture that has been cut and added a vignette, I mean that there are already available some very good snippets or filters that makes real spherical balls with textures, so from my own point I would suggest to test and try to make it more spherical, but this is of course my own point of view and you may like more the effect as it shown here.

I got it! I used ThreeDee's Spherica technique.

Oh ThreeDee, what would any of us do without you?

Behold...it is GOLF BALL PLUS.

(Now with more weathering noise and cool multilighting, including a small hint of reflected fairway green. )

Excellent! This is as far as i've gotten. Thanx for your help. P.S. Well SpaceRay,You were right. I really should have put a bit more time into this one. But with the help of CalicoastReplay ( And ThreeDee of course ) Things are looking up.

Thanx man. Hold on to it for now. I just submitted an upd ate. I'll see how it goes from there. This is the default prese t from the last upload.

If you aren't satisfied, you can update again.
Anyway this second version is already a very good step up.

I think you absolutely nailed that enamel finish!

Would you be open to forking the filter if I released mine as "Putt-Putt Golf Ball"? I did a lot more work on my own variant, I'll give you the license if we win a free copy!

bwahahahah, sir, I salute you here's to art!

Yeah, I have considered all those things too, Ram. Real golf balls, I noted, have dimples that are as hexagonal as they are circular.

THERE! Is that better? ( And if you tell me you sat there and counted every hole then you need to go get some fresh air. )

Golf Ball v2.0.1(Modified Upon Request Of The Dimple Police).ffxml

I'll wait for the move. [ Edited for general audiences ]

Now I want to write a TV show called "The Dimple Police".

Dimple picky police here. Think you got the right observation going but just not the right formation.

As Ramlyn mentioned earlier in this thread, they're actually hexagonal more than a square.

When you have 1 circle surrounded by 6 circles, the intersecting formation is a hexagon. This can be seen throughout nature, like in beehives, bubbles, interacting fluids, even on saturn there's a hexagonal formation. Hexagons do a great job reducing air turbulence as well.

Hint for creating a hexagonal pattern: Use a profile gradient and kaleidoscope. However, this results in crisp hexagonal patterns which you'd need to blur out to get rounded formations. Using any bitmap-based operation (such as the blur component) IS very time consuming. Not that it's wrong, just something I wouldn't do that for a filter made public since most people are here for speed and flexibility. So I highly recommend constructing hexagons using profile gradients!

I swear, you really made it better over the iterations. And please don't say "stinking thing" it's not a stinking thing at all and you got yourself a happy crowd who helped you build this filter. You made a filter that made us talk and it encouraged us to talk in detail. Maybe you don't appreciate a bombardment of nit-picky suggestions but I comment out of respect for what you make and not because I see something wrong.

I don't know... I've been a nit-picky bastard since I was a kid and I'm a nit-picky designer now. I get picked on by my coworkers, my clients, friends, and I pick them back by being meticulous. I know we all have our own backgrounds in life and I respect individuals for that matter. At least this isn't an anonymous crowd bashing people's hard works to bits. The internet can be a very disrespectful place.

And just a note, I do enjoy seeing your work. I just hope you don't take any of these suggestions as "blatant criticism".

You also don't have to pick up every suggestion and answer them. You can always just "incubate" suggestions and later apply them to whatever other work you're working on. It's, after all, better to have commentary and suggestions by a bunch of others than to have none.

So with love and respect.

Thanks for understanding.

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just really hate it when people look over my shoulder and start making comments about somthing i'm working on.

This is exactly the internet thing / problem. Everybody on the internet don't exactly know each other, and plus the fact that we publish things for others makes it kinda vulnerable to any sort of discussion. But in terms of all that, given we don't really know anybody online I think it makes us all equals in terms of commentary. I think the key point here is that what's made public is basically open to discussion and at that we're really on our own once it's out there. At least FF forums is a bit more tangible (to me).

Anyhoo please continue making what's just best.

Hey! Your right. Thanx for the post. I'll be submitting that update soon.

Downloaded the last update. Very nice filter.

Here's the ambient acclusion map from this filter.

Ahhh very nice.

I'm pretty sure that it's unconstitutional for the police to check dimples without a warrant.