Trying to make a filter, need some help.

This is a more simple one of 1010s that will be more of starting point to shoot at.

The easier way is if you just make one of the "layers". Then you repeat that same layer with semi-transparent black color behind the first you made, with a bit of offset to give the feeling it is a shadow. You repeat this for how many layers you want to put. The last layer, clearly will close the picture, so no shadow is needed. This system also allows you to have a different color for every layer, like the artist did.

I tried a couple things.

GOT CARRIED AWAY. This is actually some very exciting development.

Wow skybase, that's really cool!
Here's some other works of 1010. His depth illusion is really on a level all it own

1010 art on google images

Really liking the smooth saturation and color shifts per layer. Like the mineral pools in Yellowstone Park.

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layers rather than steps

right, always try parallel processing before serial for speediness.

The closest I came to that style was moding Orthograhic Cartoon Islands

Incomplete filter but works anyway.

I called it a lazy thing because a lot of techniques I used are fudging the end result. So generally I'm not trying to do math, I just wanna get it looking pretty. But given that, it renders slower and it suffers several errors.

Either way enjoy! Hopefully I can just make a library version with a couple more tweaks.

Lazy Thing.ffxml

This is really fun and addictive thanks for posting it.
Since you mentioned it's incomplete, I'm looking forward to one that you would consider complete being posted in the library. Even as it is I can already imagine using a grey scale version as a heightmap to make terraced hills and Holes in a 3D landscape in VUE or an amazing rock displacement texture. Or pools in Yellowstone national park. Or since I'm in California, perhaps drought stricken lake showing all the levels where water used to be.

This took me longer than I expected but I posted the "best of what's now" version on the library. Unfortunately it's still mildly incomplete. In that I want the colors FR OM the photo to work as well but it turns out there are bits and pieces I'd need to redo.

The filter is titled Paper Crafts, it comes with some new things and improvements, although I couldn't seem to make nice clean shadows without resorting to super slow methods. Depending on the complexity of the photo, there's a chance the filter will behave a bit silly. But in general the end output works.

This was one of those places wh ere it seemed like the problem between speed and quality.

Either way, hopefully it'll be in the library sometime in the next day or so? Not sure when but it's posted.

Yeah in regard to that method I apparently need to rewire the first portion. The input of the two groups is black and white and it needs to be in black and white. So I tried tinkering with some of the first couple nodes which were doing some pre-processing to deal with color somehow. It turns out in doing so, the whole thing became mildly slower. Which basically means I'll just need to go in and figure a nice way to do this.