just some odd images here and there

man, this 2048 x 2048 at 25 anti-aliasing passes is taking a loooooooooooong time! it's still rendering **yawn**.

yeah, i probably could. but that's not even the one i'm rendering right now. it's a multiple pattern filter, meaning, there are 8 different legs to this thing all run into a switch. the black glass one has a refraction. the one i'm rendering now, i'm not sure.

it's not a big deal, however. it's just something i decided to see if i could get more detail by raising the image size and the anti-aliasing. so far, results are pretty good.

you know when sometimes in doing a high detail filter and anti-aliasing is turned off and you're working with 600 x 600 and things are a bit fuzzy? well, that's what i'm seeing if i can correct. i had always assumed that this would be the case, but decided that i'd better actually check and see.

from what i can tell so far, raising the image size is making the most difference. there's just not enough resolution at 600 x 600 for some of these patterns. you just have to have more dots per inch in those cases. the anti-aliasing is somewhat secondary...somewhat.

ok, let's show a comparison here. this first is with anti-aliasing turned off. i had to resize the image down from 2048 to 1024 in order to reach a compressed jpg size under 250k. lol. in fact, all of these had to be resized to 1024 x 1024 for the same reason.

one interesting fact about the resizing; the 25 anti-aliasing image compressed with less compressed ratio than the others, this being due to a cleaner image, i assume.

and this is the last one. this is with 25 passes of anti-aliasing. this one took over an hour and 15 minutes to render out.

Much smoother and much less noisy.....

Unbelievable amount of details and gradation in this.....

yeah, it makes a big difference, steve. i'm going to have to go back and look at some of my old pattern filters and try them this way. i had some quite a while ago that i really liked but never really upsized them to bring out the detail.

hehe, i'm trying one at 3072 x 3072 now, but with 'edges only' anti-aliasing turned on.

lol. i think i almost broke the forums. when i hit the upload on this one, everything got reeeeeeaaal slow here on the forums. i wonder if the image size, 1536 x 1536 did this?

ok, i just had to show this. this is the center of the middle rosette at no compression, no resizing, from the 3072 x 3072 and 5 pass aa.

if by 'tighten up' you mean could i extract just that part and make a filter of just that part or do something to the kaleidoscope component to get a render of just that part.... uhm, no. at least, not per se. it could be done, though, but not by tweaking the kaleid. you'd have to mask out the rest of the image and then use one of the zoom snippets to enlarge just the un-masked portion. i believe that would do it. so, a frame component and a zoom snippet and it shld work.

These are interesting, they have an etching feel to them untill you blow them up and realize that they have tone [ I know that was a pretty pointless observation ] what was the base before you kaleidy them, just curious

must have scared steve off with that last post

ok, been working on something else. may or may not publish this one, depending on what the new eula says. the name of this filter is 'storm clouds'. it can produce a variety of cloud/sky effects but does take some user knowledge. just hitting randomize wont do it every time. so, this is not really a basic filter with one fixed set of effects, it's a creative filter (which i prefer), and requires some creative input and knowledge of the controls.

#3 this started out with just three basic colors, black, white and a dark blue. so, part of the learning curve on this one is to adjust colors to make a decent image.

#5 and again, changes, but not huge.

#7 there is one anomoly, or at least i consider it one, along the edges. in this case, the vertical edges. it is due to a noise distortion and the way it works. i sincerely wish the noise distortion had some more options, like wrap-around-edges or dont wrap. this is what's causing the 'anomoly' in this one.

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Kraellin wrote: get off yer lazy butt and do the crop!

Never!!! LOL.....

It's just my humble opinion that the single star might achieve HU much faster.....

Excellent clouds!!! #1, 5, 6, 7 are my favorites!!! Great idea!!!

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StevieJ wrote: It's just my humble opinion that the single star might achieve HU much faster.....

in all honesty, if i could do it, i would

and thank you, steve i think #1 is my favorite so far.

and thank you, carl i was actually working on a different filter and this popped up somewhere along the line and i liked it better than what i was working on and sidetracked myself

hi steve,

actually, i may have just figured out a way to do the star without altering any of the kaleid stuff. i've borrowed a snippet from uberzev in the clouds filter and after reading this thread again, i think i could adapt the same snippet to the patterned one with the star, so, i may just be able to do it i'll keep you posted.

and thank you on the clouds yes, i'm holding off for now. i DO wish vlad would put some hurry on finishing that eula because i was thinking the same thing as you.

oh, and i've been toying with some more parts for the clouds. i'll show you some results soon

Cool!!!

I was just thinking that you could create all kinds of neat variant filters from this concept.....sunsets, thunderheads, lightning (difficult, but can be done), rainbows, light rays through the clouds, etc. etc. etc......

Some very very nice clouds/skies.

jffe

thanks, jffe

Ah, very nice, Craig!!!

speaking of rainbows