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Hey! I'm serious about getting and answer to this question. Does anybody have a theory as to why the brain can't make up it's mind as to what the gradient profile of an image like this should look like?

Thanx Earthbound! I really appreciate your responding to my question.

Thanx Rick Duim! That's very interesting. I definitely need to do more research into to this stuff. Maybe understanding how the brain process information will help me make better filters. Thanx to you and earthbound again.

Hi SpaceRay. The image is on the bottom of the last page. This is it. Please go back one page and read the first part of my posting.

Many times working on the Lightning can help.
Changing the Ambience and/or the Environment can give stronger or lighter depth feeling (but it may also slow down the filter, depending on what you do).
Adding lights with a particular direction, can take away the shadow or put shadow on some area.

Anyway your filter already looks good, I think.

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DJI wrote:Does anybody have a theory as to why the brain can't make up it's mind as to what the gradient profile of an image like this should look like?

Two thoughts:

1) Lighting and shadows -- if you don't know the direction the light is coming from, the interpretation of what is up and what is down can be reversed. Looking at images showing planets or moons with impact craters which show only a section of the surface, where it is not obvious where the light is shining from, you can easily mistake the light direction and things that go up seem to go down and vice versa.

2) Color depth -- some colors seem closer than others: red is close while blue is far away. That has to do with light wavelengths and our being subjected to aerial perspective (blue in the distance).

Here are things I use ad nauseum that I wasn't able to find (but I'm new so excuse me if I just missed these out there).
•Paint drips that run top to bottom using the color at the top of the base image or color controls but have some height/bevel to them.
•A whole image full of splatters with color control. If I have to go in and adj color I might as well use my own brushes.
•Scratches/rips that cut out- I found one called monster scratch (so close) but it only has option for three. Nearly all my requests will be for four or five because most mascots have that many claws.
•Chinelle (letterman jacket letters) This should be really doable but I'm too green. This needs to have 3 color controls as the client is sure to want their colors applied. chinelle with an outline braid and felt border.
•a transparent background rock option which I would most likely use to create letters out of rock so it needs to follow the shape but hop off around the highlights so it isn't perfect like rough hewn stone. Same thing for metal, paint, fur, bubbles, candy, clowds(sky writer would be fun)and or any fun patterns...
•scratches that follow roughly around a subject creating a tweakable grungy outline
•footprints or animal prints in sand/dirt
•I'm sick of triangles but the customers keep asking- blame the default backgrounds.
•Polygons that have gradients from the image within them.

Here is a "painterly" version using the gradient with triangle "brushes".

Here are the 2 filters that produced these. You need FF 5 for both of these filters. Note that Polygon Variation 7 produces random shapes.

Dots and Stars v2.ffxml

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Polygons that have gradients from the image within them

Here I have found this gradients circles that maybe it could be useful in some way

Gradient Circles by Skybase

You can change the circles to polygons to get the same effect

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You can change the circles to polygons to get the same effect

Already did the hard work for people.

https://filterforge.com/filters/10705.html

Also check the comments section for an "image based" version.
https://filterforge.com/forum/read.php...sage107073

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ddaydreams wrote: I liked the apparent depth on this and the voroni cells within cells

Yes, this is a good idea and like much the well done and beautiful voronoi cells you are showing, I do not know if this would be possible in FF

I'd love to play around with that, ThreeDee!!! Looks AWESOME!

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ThreeDee wrote: The cell pattern is different, but it is possible to layer them for a similar effect.

WOW!!!! WOW!!!! This is awesome and amazing what you have done and is really very similar to the original. congratulations for the great work and know expertly how to make it and spend the time to do it, I admire that you know so much about FF

Like Erik, I would also love much to know how it is made

thanks

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ThreeDee wrote: he cell pattern is different, but it is possible to layer them for a similar effect.

This is very good and well done and it looks similar to the original without the shadows, cool and beautiful complex pattern

Here are the two effects side by side to compare. Left is circles forever and right is triangulation, an online generator. So close, definitely usable but, the soft quality of color is what I want. I think tweaking an existing filter would accomplish this.

No. You can do all just using FF and simply connecting 3 Stones components.

Set 3 different size Stones components : small, medium and large.
Connect the small Stones to the Background plug of the medium Stones.
Connect the medium Stone to the background plug of the large stone.

For the color, as you can see from the picture, it is set as the medium stones size.
You can do a medium Stones component, selecting Solid Fill.
Connect it to the background of small Stones ( or blend it with Small stones, depending on the effect you want to give.

Here's my take on this using layered cells. I'm not sure on the technique, so I made it up as I went along..

Layered Cells test version.ffxml

Thanks to all for the helpful info. And I'm trying to add depth to Ricks test version. Thanks Rick Trying to add depth to make it more like threedees post, but so far no luck. Rather than depth from shadows I'm just making the whole image darker. I wonder what Threedee did for depth.

And here is the filter.

Layered Cells test version 2.ffxml

You should be able to click on the .ffxml link and it is then placed in your My Filters folder in the left upper pane of FF and it should run automatically. If this does not work, and the link below does not help, contact support.

Here is a link on downloading filters: Download Help.

And yes, the filters in the forum are not part of the regular library.

Also note that filters made in Filter Forge 5 will not work in Filter Forge 4.

Thank you very much Rick, I will try that out. I have Filter Forge 5, so I should be fine.

You are all welcome! Thanks must go to ThreeDee, Ramlyn and ddaydreams for the ideas that got this going.