CorvusCroax's Junkyard

Lenin:

#4 It works pretty well with flesh tones and lower contrast.
Looking at some old school comics, I think it needs some kind of way to separate out areas which are mostly one color... Hmmm....

Here's the original on that last one:

The halftone is definitely working well with the cartoon.

it does have that old comic book style on some of those. nice

Test2
Going for more of a 2 step process here. Step 1 is more of a flatten everything out filter. Sort of base on Vlad's comic book.

hehe, cool. ya know, you could probably just build in a median or percentile component to do your smoothing

a smart blur? not sure what that is. explain?

ah, it's a threshold style blur. ok. and yes, you could do that quite easily in FF. the edges only would be tougher, but could be done. color transitions would be quite tough, i would think.

for the threshold method, just isolate part of your image based on threshold with the threshold and a set alpha and whatever your input source is. source goes to the top node of the set alpha and to the theshold and the threshold output goes to the 'new alpha' node. then just tweak your threshold slider for adjusting.

you could probably also make this selective based on color, too, but we'd need a better color selector/separator than we currently have.

Working on a thing to put bolts at the corners using FF2.0 and bombers. Here's some pics:

#3 Source is just a black and white profile:

Here's the source for #4

These are awesome, really cool. Ornaments galore

Hi ThreeDee!

I've mostly been trying to use the new median maximum and minimum nodes, blended with the original with difference mode. (sort of like the median version of high pass)

Sort of got it to work to isolate the corners. Take original image and hit it with Percentage (With settings of 25 and 50). Take a the original image, and hit it with blur, but non-gaussian. Then difference blend the two. It creates nice little pointy wedges at the corners. It's slow, though, if you try to dial the blur radii up beyond, say 15.

I'd tried using directional blur, but it seems to round everything out yet. I'd been placing them at 0 and 90 degrees. It occured to me that doing two directional blurs but at +45 and -45, and then difference blending them might just do the trick.

>and top and bottom edges of the motion blur, since the offset directions are >different for the two sides. You see what I'm getting at?

Yes. Couldn't you invert the respective quads?

Was also trying using minimum and maximum, and combining them in different ways to find the center edge. Seemed promising, maybe.


>>(Oh how I wish there was a directional blur...)

I agree! Is it hard to do or something? It seems like FF should already have it.

I so totally second the normal map component. It would be insanely useful for everything from custom shaders to wacky offset tricks. And it isn't even new! I hadn't realized that FF already does a normal map rendering.
The main problem with current methods, in addition to their molasses-slowness, is that they flat-out are not accurate enough, I'm constantly running into visual artifacts caused by that inaccuracy. In some cases I can just blur out the artifacts, in others, I need sub-pixel accuracy and I can't get it.

Here's my corner-finding solution. Kinda works. Better with crisp corners.

Some other interesting, effects in there too.

Awesome work CorvusCroax! Any chance of releasing the new Spacehulk??

OK, I submitted Spacehulk V2 ... we'll see.

Have been experimenting w/ making a filter which identifies straight horizontal and vertical lines. Ended up with this instead:

(source image is the skull, a few pages back)

It works great on buildings, or other things with lots of horizontal and vertical lines. Note this is done just with motion blur, NOT with bombers.

#5 here's another showing a good image with lots of Hz and Vert detail: