Radial Mosaic Tiles by Crapadilla

Radial Mosaic Tiles by Crapadilla
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/6670.html

Really an artwork Crap, and I know cause i couldnt do it but still that offset thing... can i hint you to look into somethig further?

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: Wow. Just wow.

My thoughts too!

Yay!! Dilla uploaded it!

Thank you Dilla!

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Crapadilla wrote: Please don't ask what altruistic madness gripped me there!

That would have been the subliminal messages I planted in your show and tell post

The one that kept saying.. you know you want to upload this..

Crapadilla, you are the man! You may want to consider adding the option to more tightly fit the circles together, Like this:

very nice, dilla and an EP to boot!

Speaking of 'nightmare-inducing' feature requests... we need true radial pattern components!



This filter show-cases some of the shortcomings of the spherical-transformation-approach to generating radial patterns:

[*] Mortar lines of the tiles diverge from the center outwards. However, they should really run parallel to eachother.
[*] Tile bevels becomes smoother and larger the further away from the pattern center they are. Bad! I've corrected this effect slightly inside this filter, but it still leaves much to be desired.
[*] Tiles with rounded corners look increasingly stretched the further away from the pattern center they are.

It might not be that particularly bad in this filter, but it's still a detail that bothers me.

well the thing you considered ^^ aka RedCap being in your neck too about it

Come on Crap, if someone can do it, you must be it! *Tickles*

Seriously I am now finally to the point im getting the drill with the offset and the gradients, but this IS impossible right? unless you might consider this filter?

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5088.html

at least that's the only thing I can think of getting it close, but then I seem to not be able to use the cicular stones. Or I haven't found a way to combine them...

Maybe you can? ^^

True... though with the offset alone I am so NOT getting there... cause then it goes wanky with the parts that it needs to make invisible or need to be overlapping.

So what about the technique used in that filter I mentioned? And if it were possible how would you go try it?

Trying to learn here

This is very cool looking, and definitely a great combining of your filters, but is it really a popular look ? I'm no tile expert ha-ha, but I have never really seen this style in real life before. Is it the must-have thing in like Italy or somewhere ?

jffe

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Mike Blackney wrote: jffe These tiles are all over the place, like in the barrens in WOW.

----Oh, so it's really more of a videogame thing than a real life thing ? (That would explain why I haven't got a clue about it then ha-ha.)

jffe

Well, come on Crapa, enlighten us as to your inspiration for this interesting tile design.

jffe

It's really very common, and very lovely. I'm surprised you haven't seen it at all jffe, but I guess you could just live somewhere without lovely cobbled streets. Do a Google search for Fan Paving or Radial Paving.

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I'll be using a more complex (golden spiral) version of this on a texturing project involving an ancient ruined bathhouse...

Ruined bathhouse sounds awesome.

This one would be great as an effect filter. Then any image could be used for the bricks, tiles, stone, etc.

Dear Crapadilla,
I need your help to development one new filter to do roman mosaic.
You can help me in this point.

Best regards
jonh