Illusion Fields

Then a rounded particle and rotation chaos begets (1200 px @ 25AA):

and a slight adjustment on the above yields(600 px @ 25AA):

Then reducing the rotation order and smoothness (600 px @ 25AA):

Then onto four with a natural jade look. First without anti-aliasing and then with (600 px @ 25AA):

and again but with shading and slightly different parameters (600 px @ 25AA):

Edit: The AA on J1 and J3 should be 0 not 25

So, should I for the sake of 'clarity' keep this filter as is, or for the sake of 'similarity of purpose' cut it up?

Oh the woe!

...and Picasso on crack too!

smoothed

and smoothed

The only difference between this next one and the above is that it has 2 repeat horizontal color symmetry instead of 4:

This is impressive. I will be interested to see where this goes. I have not taken advantage of the new FF 5 features yet.

So, 2 arbitrary curves with an alternating overlap, now on to 3+...

Have a great weekend!

Oh yeah! I've been struggling for a little while trying to lick this puppy, but now its been done!

On the middle graphic below you can see a zoom section of an error that pops up about 1/10 the time. I don't foresee the ability to fix this in a timely (processing) manner, so this necessitates the inclusion of the vertical offsets for each strand to manually fix them. Now the question is, how to avoid the 20 offsets needed for 20 strands? Cue train wreck track!

Its pretty neat though how the algorithm almost appears intelligent, redoing all the overlaps in an alternating fashion. All three images are the same except for the repositioning of the red strand vertically.

Good job. What's the speed like?

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Hooray!

Oh the entanglement! Thinking about Top Secret II

Well, now you have yourself in a knotty situation I can foresee Celtic Knots, etc etc

I'm taking a completely different approach here from Free Braid. This seems to be pretty close aside from the occasional
Thresheld polar wrap coming soon...

Btw, the closest to this I could find that had been done already is Wild Pipes, and Cat Paths, but neither has the long runs AND self overlap.

Thank ye.

I think I'll be contenting myself to decorative trim for the mean time though, but I've got some ideas now for that elusive greek key stuff.

The only leads I have on that at the moment are, to use a piecemeal approach like: https://www.filterforge.com/filters/6577.html
or maybe something can be teased out of Cat Paths (image of preset #12 below) to make it a multi-variant Celtic braid monster?

Chances, Tint, and Size too, but seeing as though there are only crosses and corners, I'll leave you that task if you wish.

Not using a bomber at all, but a nice checker hack of sorts, here's square waves perpendicular about the axes!