The Orange Head

I love the last one!

Ok, here's that fractal filter. This filter is meant to be EDITED each time you use it (sorry, I overwrote the "butterfly" example). You can use it as a template for more specialized filters. It has one control for mere convenience. I separated the components into groups so the filter would be easy to understand and use.

Indigo's Fractals.ffxml

Another go at "erosion". This is from the innards of my "Peanut Butter" filter. The Beta V4 "grouping" feature (with "instancing") helped clean up the filter tree. Basically, the algorithm is: Erode (subtract) from the flattest areas, leaving the steep areas untouched. I repeated this a second time (but more subtle) and got this:

This kinda looks like an arial photo. I should know, as I've been working on those for some time.
Only thing, you should have some kind of blur on the noisy areas.

ok, that last is an interesting one, but if it involves calculus then it's the work of the devil!

Yuck! Calculus >-< I remember failing horibly at that back in school
That erosion thingy starts to look really nice

Nobody is trying to offend you, Indigo. If anything, I think we envy you for understanding math

I happen to be one of those unfortunate souls that just can't do 1+1 without a calculator. Believe me, I've tried.
In fact, I almost have a degree in math and computer science. Almost, because it was 85% math science, and only 15% computers. Coputers I can do. Math doesn't seem to agree with me. I got by for so long, up to the point it broke me...
It bothers me every single day that I suck at math, since the subjects that most interest me are computer graphics, electronics, physics, and nature photography. Apart from photography, they are all math heavy (For me at least... I can't even grasp Ohm's law ).

When we call math "The work of the devil", we don't mean YOU are the devil, or that you do the devil's work! We admire your ability to tame the beast. You're like being a lion tamer - we are all too terrified of the lion, you can stick your head in it's mouth!

I am another of those that try to stay well away from maths as unfortunately I can only use them to multiply, divide and to add numbers, and none of the more complex maths things, and much less the ones involved in this graphics software maths that are really like chinese writings for me.

I REALLY ADMIRE MUCH THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, LEARN AND USE THEM FOR YOUR WORK

I went to high school for computing but have to leave because of the algebraic math that I could not understand at all and so would not pass.

Most (if not all) of the lovely, awesome and beautiful complex geometric shapes and artistic geometrical art involves very complex maths and love that you CAN learn and use them and I congratulate you for this.

Thanks guys. As I said, I know you all mean well. Don't worry about learning complex mathematics, as long as you put in the effort to learn something else, like photography or computer programming or whatever. But at the same time, don't freak out about something you have trouble understanding but can't avoid. Either spend more time learning about it, or just trust someone else. In the mean time, I'll be your "mathemagician".

OK, here's the filter I just posted an example on. Now, you may not like the names of the controls so THETA = from what angle the light shines, PHI = whether the light source is up above or down to the side, and COLOR = the frequency of the electro-magnetic wave passing through a medium with an assumed index of refraction of 1

Feel free to replace the input to the "add" component at the beginning with some other height map.

3 Lights.ffxml

Not sure Morgan, but Theta = "azimuth" (think directions on a compass) and Phi = "altitude" (height above/below the horizon)

Now for something that uses very little correct math. I would submit this, but the filter is very "unversatile".

The lights filter is nice, just having a play with it.
And the monitor looks interesting aswell.

Ooh fur, nice! Are you using bombers for that?

More than one, Shar. The fur uses one bomber for color and a second almost-identical bomber for depth shading (the tip of each hair is more exposed to light than the base). In addition, the jaguar pattern itself uses a third bomber. You can expect render speeds to be on the slow side (~2 minutes for my quadcore i5). No promises about submitting or posting the filter. Another pic. Guess which animal this is...

Oh cool, like the exploding pattern. If you round of the edges of the leaky bits, it will look even better I think.

The online library is suffering from a lack of old factory windows. I see a disturbing amount of them pass by when I take the train.

This one takes an image input:

In response to the hype about "flame painter", I imagined painting with fire...in filter forge. This uses Z-perlin (via Lua script), gradient (vector calc.), and one of Uberzev's unsubmitted filters (I provided it for you all somewhere on these forums). See how the condor becomes a phoenix.

Photo: http://godsrbored.blogspot.com/2011/1...skies.html

It's fun to try to make photo-realistic textures in filter forge. It really gets you thinking about the minute structures of things, and what forces caused them to be shaped that way. As my teacher said, "you can't draw a flower unless you know a flower".

Anyway, here are two new carpet filters. The first is a simple cell noise base, overlaid with lots of micro-fibers a la bomber to give it a fuzzy feel.

Also, the watermark is my own mod of ThreeDee's europa sans font filter.

Ooh, you know what, I'll share this monster with you all! It's a safari of different textures, not suited for library submission. But if you edit the filter, you can make it work for you. Caution: This filter carnivorously eats your CPU (it's slow).

Fur 3.ffxml

Awesome job on the fur, Indigo!. Looks great!

(Just my way of saying that looks really good.)

A neat little FF exploit, and very fast to render.

I waited for a long time... but it never rendered.

It was a joke your filter always will look like it never fully rendered