LAB#3015 Skybase

Another rework of older filters. This is just a really mild update to the old filter I was making.

Great.Both pictures are very stylish and elegant.

I agree with Ramlyn and xirja, they are stylish and elegant, but I definitively love the last one as it gives much deepness and gives a much fractal feeling made with this beautiful and well shaded and gradient triangles and selected colors, and there seems to be some kind of shadow also on some of them, very good.

really great, and with a great composition too on the second one, congratulations.

Great! I will surely download them.

Email me for that particular version.

I recently saw stuff with people who just rendered my stuff out and were calling it "art" without taking the "extra mile" to make the output theirs. It's perfectly acceptable, I just don't appreciate it. It's like somebody just rendered something with my habits on it. So I basically just removed that function from the thing to make the output generic enough that everybody can add their own things to it. Probably won't work out like that but whatever.

ah... umm... well not exactly what I meant.

In short I'm really just asking how much originality I should put into a filter. Should my filters be generic enough that people can use other techniques to make original things with?

I think this question is pretty unique to filterforge given how it lets you generate images. We're not always making super generic tools like Photoshop, we're often making unique tools to our style.

I personally feel a bit better by making a filter just generic enough that people can add their own things to it but original enough that it's interesting. So in this case I removed the shading function of the filter because I felt as though that was adding too much character to the filter that it'd kinda make it difficult to use the filter for any commercial purpose. I'm basically saying it's too specific. Where as by removing that shading feature it makes it generic that it's now just a triangle mosaic generator that people can potentially jog their ideas with. That it'd help be part of the process rather than it being an end-all solution.

I think this whole thing is really just about finding the right balance of what to put out there.

This is really just a feeling thing, so I personally don't wanna discuss it that much. It's just a personal musing.

Been a couple years since I talked about technical stuff... I kinda want to but time is kinda key right now.

So here we go. I submitted the multi-color gradient: a gradient that lets you have as many colors as you want per gradient. Instead of being limited to just 5, 3 or 2 colors you now got as many colors as you want.

However the PROBLEM is that the UI's a complete pain. I made it, I only used it once ... and never wanted to again because I just don't wanna edit gradients this way.

Try swapping out the profile gradients for free gradients. If you want Alpha, just make a new profile gradient and set alpha to it.

But anyway have fun. It works and it's not entirely bad.

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Maybe Filter forge team developers could include a better way to have multiple color gradients

Inujima made a perfect feature request a while ago on the subject of gradients. I'd say it'll open doors to a whole set of better things.

But anyway.

For now this method works.... just tedious and annoying. "Why would anybody want to use this?" has been my personal opinion since the time I made it. lol

Just getting back to FilterForge a tad bit. Here's one of my slower filters.

Makes... some kind of painterly watercolor... thingy. Problem is, it doesn't work with all images so I'm working to make it work with everything.

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Does this one wash out?

Yeah, the colors kinda get washed out and sometimes goes overkill due to the way I handled parts of the process. I'll just fix that part. The other thing is that it's a bit slow, as in this 600x600 image takes around 30 seconds to render with anti-alias.

The fact that it goes through a bunch of median nodes and percent is where the slow down is probably happening. Eh... well...

I also took note of the 12 and 16 color gradients! Excellent work I say!!

I have found again by chance this image here below when searching another different thing in the forum

from page 12 of the this same thread

and I have to say that I am really still much in love with this filter, and would like to know how to modify the 3D shapes of the blocks to make different ones, and how have you done specifically this one shown here with the defined solid colors

Thanks for making and having shared this filter that is really innovative using FF

It's been a while I updated this thread.
Here's a maze generator.

Version 5.0 firsts! This version IS indeed extremely smooth so far.

easy thing I made just in a couple minutes. Pretty sweet

Testing out bomber+ capabilities.

This just made a ton of things flexible. The stuff like tiles+, bricks+, and pavements+ is a really nice addition. I can do some RGB math on it and make some crazy stuff.

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Also, any insight about how to use the size and rotation slaves? I can't wrap my head around why these are even there.

Size slave's outputting values 0 to 100 for each particle's current size. Same goes for rotation.

I feel like I could do that stuff normally by making an external rotation/scale map, and plugging it into Tint and Rotation/Scale.

Well somebody had to do it right?
Here's everybody's nightmare come true: 100 input bomber.

All of your images look super sweet (can we see the output of the bomber?)

I wonder if the map-switch is technically as fast as linked thresholds (if not faster)

Etsy and Society6 would love my filters. LOLOLOL.

lol I've seen so many of my works being used over with people on Etsy and Society6 I decided why not just make more.

The bomber+ and the new map switch nodes makes it easier to handle stuff like this. While it looks simple, previous versions of FilterForge did take a bit more nodes to produce the same effect. Although the results are much the same.

This is honestly a simple example but it works for people who love scrap booking etc etc.

Personally did want it control locks per preset. It seems like a better idea especially with the way we use presets and how we handle stuff.

It honestly didn't sound like you were lashing out, more like had a point. To some degree I kinda agree that it's really not the best of approaches, probably more convoluted than anything. But then again, I constructed the filter just wanting to really try something fresh and it worked the way I imagined, so it confirmed a couple things for me. hah

Hopefully nothing a little ginger can't fix

Oh my, leggings at society6

Hum... new map input makes for a quick and dirty variable blur method.

Colors are just there fore a test.

... now i want distance transform as node. Then this filter will be super complete.