Other Interesting Ideas

The last cubes look great!
Also like the spaghetti one.

Draping a rope on the image mask. The first step towards draping a cloth.

Something about smudging/ray casting a mask downwards and blurring for a new mask/shape?

A chocolate covered kingfisher....

Good morning Everyone,

Awesome work ThreeDee very well done!

Have a great day!

Ron

Well, it doesn't really look like cloth yet -- I need to work on it some more anyways.

I am fairly confident it is possible to do a decent amount of basic 3D imaging with Smudge 3D. The above lathed object and the below extruded objects are done fully in FF (animation rendered with ffbatch, composited in Photoshop.)

Wow, awesome!

Wow, very cool stuff. That draping looks particularly impressive.

The manuscript for the Manual of Life, Universe and Everything!

After Effects and Filter Forge "integration"

Probably should have multiple quotes around that "integration", but the Batch Processing Wrapper fr om MachinesInMotion got me interested in trying this out.

I took some footage of a construction cranes and tracked the motion of one of them turning. I then converted the x- and y-coordinates of the tracked coordinates to greyscale values and rendered them at the bottom of the footage (at 16 bit color depth). I output this as a image sequence.

In Filter Forge I modified a Lens Flare filter I had made to pick the x and y coordinates from the bottom of the image wh ere I had those two grey values. I then batch processed the image sequence through FF to add the animated lens flare, which now followed the tracked coordinates.

Composed the two sequences as layers in After Effects, and voila (sorry, could only fit a tiny GIF here):

Good morning Everyone,

Way Cool work ThreeDee!

Have a great day & weekend!

Ron

WOW!! This manuscript looks really cool, amazing and well done, and even more considering that this is done with filter forge components that are not easy to create things like this and look so good.

Congratulations!

Is this based in some way on your experiment to make an alphabet in FF?

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Is this based in some way on your experiment to make an alphabet in FF?

No, just a random experiment.

Bitmap font embedding

In the works. Will need unsafe script to generate but can be used with safe scripts.

Basic idea: Create below image in Photoshop (without grid). Save bitmap image in Script component with LUA.

Additional idea: Script in rudimentary automatic letter spacing detection in the hopes that it can be used to output properly spaced text. To be worked out.

Yes, I would do only smaller images -- such as icons, symbols or interface elements -- in this fashion. I don't think there is much need to embed large raster images into filters in any case.

One thing to consider is that grayscale images require only one third of the information and 1-bit bitmap images 1/8th in comparison to grayscale. So a 600x600 bitmap image should not be a problem. At least theoretically a 1200x1200 1-bit image would take less space and be faster than a 300x300 RGB image.

Nevertheless, I am still pursuing the route of vector (bezier) embedding for adding new custom shapes into filters.

Until FF Inc surprises us with vector capabilities.

Hence, variable-scale blur:

Sort of limited in what you can do, but maybe someone can find some use for it.

Circular Bezier Draw

A concept I had a while back, finally got to put it together. The following image was drawn with a single Bezier Curve Component:

Great Idea ThreeDee...A cheat sheet rather then "eyeball" the shape...

Here's an idea I had this morning 7/21/2015 PST. It's not nearly as complicated as the filters you all are talking but it does make some interesting images. Here's the source code.




It does have problems however. The 3 images below willshow you what I mean.

Jade Carving.ffxml

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