LAB#3015 Skybase

Cool! poligonal patchworks

Cross hatching filter has been uploaded to the library! It's been too long since my last Filter so I thought I'd go back and fix something I already had lying around since the dawn of time.

This version offers a much flexible set of parameters, nicer, happier settings, and you can also go random-crazy.

Good and well done examples, and great cross hatching filter, and thanks really very much for having shared this wondeful filter in the FF library and make it well and as you have said with some good amount of settings to have different variations

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Skybase XD the joys of making it

Well, I am glad and I like and admire that you can enjoy and have fun making filters, and this is because you are an expert and experienced filter forger and know really well how to use FF for your purposes and to do what you want and get the things you would like, because for me regretably is frustrating and not much enjoyable.

Simple reaction diffusion. Uber did this before in FilterForge. Pretty sure I follow similar methods.

Texture a fish!

Pretty much everything.

Oh, interesting! Can it make finer patterns aswell?

At lower iterations the filter ... kinda looks awful At higher iterations it takes too long to render And yes it can make really fine patterns but since these patterns literally "grow" the whole thing has go through several iterations.

Here's how the filter's been set up. The key idea here is "reaction-diffusion" so if we replace those words with something FilterForge has (and consequently photoshop)... for reaction you get things like sharpen, high pass, edge detect, threshold, anything that brings clarity to an image. These bring out the image hence emulating the effect when chemicals cause a reaction, bringing something into perspective.

The diffusion ... is literally just diffusion. Blur, median, min / max / percentile, noise displacement, offset, look up, smudge and a ton more... are all things that diffuse an image.

So you just chain those together. In my case I used a high-pass filter--> threshold chain as my reaction and blur as a diffusion.

Highpass-->threshold-->blur-->highpass-->threshold-->blur....

You can also try this super classic Photoshop trick. Sharpen --> Blur --> Sharpen --> blur... and it works with many other combos.

It's kinda neat how this is just some natural way stuff in nature organizes itself. The filter's just kinda like a immature version of what nature does and it unfortunately does take time.

I initially made the filter for a poster design but I figured I can share it anyway since it's generic. It's a 4.0 filter.

Reaction-Diffusion.ffxml

Well the last thing I want right now is commotion from my client since I designed the filter for client's needs. Consider this a demonstration of technicality

But the filter construction is bloody simple and plus it's a generic idea that makes for what it is. I haven't asked permission at all and I don't give a damn.

I suggest using a separate program for higher resolution content which even photoshop can do this without you using FilterForge. Only reason: takes too long.

This week seems to be some iterator week for me.... Zoom spin blur thingy like the one uber back ages ago.

Skybase -awesome work. I love the platformer tiles - that's the wanna be game developer in me.

You and your RGB Assembly

I've been working on these iterative things these days... it's pretty fun coming up with unique designs.

heh... now I'm posting like crazy. I have all these filters I made in 3.0 which has been translated to 4.0 beta. I've been just upgrading some of them on my spare time. Most of them were commercial in-house tools for design and stuff... but I guess those projects are done and it sucks seeing a filter that was used probably 4 or 5 times.

Here's the "Prism Blur" filter I recently developed re-done with user-input colors instead. Kinda like Trapcode Shine but in FilterForge and extremely limited. Works extremely well with images in the dark of course!

Unconventional, non-bomber based approaches to simple iterative processes.

There's even more. This is just the XY map.

More results

Ermmm... work in progress watermelon (that looks like raw dead something) heh. I think its the colors....

RGB LAND image synth became giant. It can randomly create predictable and yet unpredictable images. It has a bajillion parameters which affect the out put significantly.

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It makes images that look like clown vomit..

LOL
I think Clown Vomit should have confetti, cup cake sprinkles and jelly beans in it:)

Nice cards, Skybase!

I should have ordered luxe business cards. Their print quality is ridiculously high. No regrets at all. Now I can give out name cards without feeling like crap.

Reminds me that every guy looks the same in a tux.