Illusion Fields

Not many ground breaking developments in the last few months, but a few refinements. Definitely seeing the following as potential gift wrapping:

Filament edge madness #2:

More modern symmetric filaments:

and pleasing terrain:

Frost on glass with lighting will be something I'll be digging into very soon.

Felt like doing a larger version of a simple fractal bomber noise I did a while ago:

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source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...urrell.JPG

A 3 repeat linear gradient on the alpha of the FF tree image...

Oh good god.

Springtime in fjord land...

I almost couldn't believe that the loop component could spit out many more instances of objects in space outside the visible 0..1, until I remembered that it's sample based. For example it was 9 seconds to render 100 pts., and also 9 seconds to render 25 x 100 pts. What? Oh yes, scale and reduced space per particle.

what o.O

wow trippy

reminds me of the old windows 95 ^^

Coral from cells is starting to take shape

The same for decorative purposes:

Cool topographic map and coloring there. Thought I'd ask because I don't 'do' 3D usually. Here's a quick one in the free version of World Machine 3D view. I think the channeling on the terrain is starting to match WM's erosion effects.

Finally, a reasonable looped noise zoom:

that's awesome! looks so cool

Here's a comparison and a tip for 3d rendering images from FF in outside 3d apps. Using the base high contrast gradient image (.exr format) that gave rise to the floor mat above, compared from left to right below:

1) The original displacement image with sharp black to white zones between the spiral centers.

2) Adjusted image using FF threshold and blur at high pass V tone curve offset 1 px x and y and lighten blended.

3) Subd mesh x2 using above hard edge blur free refined image.

What was 6 min to render in case 1 & 2 became 12 min because both the mat and torus meshes were subdivided. Pre-calculation of high poly mesh to blame.

This will be the last that I'll display of this scene, I promise. But now, better speed with an optimized mesh (no memory overload), allowing for GPU compute. Only 5 minutes for something twice as big (per side) as the following...



..and fun to use a 'Mask' modifier to cut away selected vertex groups.

It was a great page, but...