CorvusCroax's Junkyard

#07: I think this is my favorite use: crystalline glowing pics of architecture...

Here's the source for both those last two...

CorvusCroax, some totally amazing artwork here. Its great to see the source images used.
Did you ever complete the Pipes filter? right at the start of your thread.

Keep up the great work

AaronC

These are brilliant

Spahehulk v2 is awesome! Just a quick question, what happened to the version with the nifty round bits?

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Spahehulk v2 is awesome! Just a quick question, what happened to the version with the nifty round bits?

I think thats v3. He said he may release it after his game. I'm looking forward to it as well!

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Kraellin wrote: interesting idea, corvus and interesting application of that idea. looking forward to a play with that one

Thanks Kraelin: I wish it worked better. I've been trying to figure out some FF - way to do some basic shape and corner recognition. (any ideas much appreciated!)

Any thoughts on the edge finder filter's name? I can't very well call it 'edge finder'. Maybe 'Crystalize Lines' or something?

What I'm doing now is to take a regular gaussian blur, and a motion blur, then calculating the difference. So, where it's not different = lines in the direction of the motion blur. I do that 4 times: 1 for HZ, Vertical, and a double for the diagonals. So the controls can make sense, have to have pairs of blurs w/ same radii. The cool thing is that it pulls out the color, and brightness.

I think w/ the bomber mode, it would be more monochrome, but it's probably worth a try.

On the forums, someone asked for a 'twilight colorization' filter. Took a whack at it: Came out pretty good, if a bit inflexible:

I think i need to intensify the effect. it works good on some images as-is, but other it's kind of tame.

and the standard lifesaver

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Kraellin wrote: interesting, isnt it, how much the same filter can differ from image to image. i often make a filter for a single image and then rarely use it on others.

Yep...The filter looks great for one image, maybe two then others turn out to be not so good with the same filter..Even if you've tweaked it...

001

here is the input mask I'm using. It comes in as a selection on top of the image. The filter breaks it into 4 particles, which are they placed based on the source image.

004: using a bit more crisp input map. (the thing in the lower right corner is a mini version of the map)

Hey, thanks SJ.

The hard part seems to be getting it to show more small bits in areas of high frequency detail. That's sort of what that one (and 004) does, but it's not quite working satisfactorily yet.

Hmmm... interesting. That's probably worth a try: The trick is that you can only load in the the single grayscale channel of the selection,(the rgb is the underlying image) so you'd have to give up half of your source images to get a separated channel for that.

The other problem is that to get the fine detail, the image is made up of 2 bomber passes, with one creating the rough background and another creating the detail. The detail one is set to overlay to combine with the back. That wouldn't work as well w/ a solid surface approach, and the detail would have to come some other way.

Playing around with Mortex, updating it to FF2.0. Added bolts, made the lights use HDR lighting, etc. Added a nice group of components which create the plate offset, based solely on the the height map. Bolts are showing up a bit in the wrong place, and I need to implement the technique used above.

Mortex 003

Dear god I want that filter SO HARD.

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CorvusCroax wrote: The trick is that you can only load in the the single grayscale channel of the selection,(the rgb is the underlying image) so you'd have to give up half of your source images to get a separated channel for that. The other problem is that to get the fine detail, the image is made up of 2 bomber passes, with one creating the rough background and another creating the detail. The detail one is set to overlay to combine with the back. That wouldn't work as well w/ a solid surface approach, and the detail would have to come some other way.

True.....could just try isolating the stroke edges.....might work because using full stroke detail might be too much anyway.....

Second metal form pic does it for me......

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tigerAspect wrote: Dear god I want that filter SO HARD.

LOL..... Sounds like a sadomasochistic filter demand..... .....

Hey CorvusCroax,

VERY COOL!

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

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StevieJ wrote: True.....could just try isolating the stroke edges.....might work because using full stroke detail might be too much anyway.....

Hmm... not sure how to isolate just the edge. Could you elaborate?