Examples of 2D image converted 3D using ThreeDee´s Spherical Previewer

I have started this other thread Examples of Spherical 3D Displacement Previewer by ThreeDee to show 3D examples of 3D filters, the ones that have surface and height maps.

The amazing and awesome filter that is able to do all this is this one here

Spherical 3D Displacement Previewer by ThreeDee V 2.0

I was wrong thinking that 2D simple filters could not be used with this 3D filter.

I have seen that using totally plain 2D images can get you a total 3D look inside this filter

See this 3D sphere

I'm actually impressed at the fact that the smudge filter produces a cleaner edge than an average displacement function in any given 3D program. Usually the polycount for hard and clean edges for displacements tend to go high.

And what about Grin Inc. by Crapadilla



Extrusion 14 Texture Scale 94

Using the well done Truchet Tiling - Basic Circular by Uberzev

Extrusion 5 Texture Scale 51

Here an attempt with Radical tile filter by Indigo Ray. Original image

ThreeDee, is it possible to have it in a transparent background ?

And with extrusion 100 you can make it explode

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Ghislaine wrote: ThreeDee, is it possible to have it in a transparent background ?

I thought that it would be easy to make it have a transparent background BUT after making some tests and trying a few different things I have seen that is more complex than it seems if you do not know how the effect is done, as I have been able to take out the black BUT behind there are some semi-transparent shapes from the 3D shape

Here is all I have been able to make, sorry

I have tested it with the amazing and well done Oriental Patterns by inujima

This shown here is the source of the following result



Preset 1 Extrusion 53 Texture Scale 100

I think is really VERY DIFFERENT in 3D than the 2D version

same settings

Extrusion 14 Texture Scale 52

You can also make some kind of planets with this filter and the help of Countries by Skybase

Braiiins....

Here is a example from an awesome recent filter Dungeons and Flagons by Mike Blackney

From this source image



with the settings showed

Thanks for the link to the 2.5 D explanation, I did not know about that

For me anything that looks like 3D (not isometric projection) and have some depth, shading and lighting to simulate a 3D shape IS really 3D for me, although I agree that technically is a fake 3D.

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Sharandra wrote: I´m sorry for posting in the wrong thread, I´m not sure why you need 2 threads about the same topic tho

There is no problem, just to let you know about it.

I have made two threads about the same topic because really for me is NOT exactly the same, the source used to get the result is very different.

I wanted to be able to know very easily and fast which one was made from 2D source and which ones are from the 3 Maps, and the easiest way for me is to have 2 separate threads as for me is not the same.

1 - 3 MAPS AS SOURCE - You use 3 maps to be able to make the 3D (well 2.5D )conversion and you get a better effect and for me is more realistic the result and more like real "3D" as it uses the same as 3D Software to simulate the 3D

2 - 2D SIMPLE IMAGE AS SOURCE - The source is a plain and simple 2D image with no 3D information at all, and although the result may look also in simulated 3D, I wanted to show how surprising and amazing is the conversion from a simple 2D to a 3D sphere.

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Skybase wrote: But but but.... you're using the same filter So no matter what input there is it's the same output.

I am using the same filter, and I get similar output BUT The source I use to get this output is NOT the same as is really different for me using 3 render maps as source than using 1 only 2D image and nothing else.

I wanted to have 2 thread to make a difference in the source and see how great and awesome you can have with just plain and simple 2D images and then have another with more complex in the making 3 render maps.

Why should I mix them if I do not want to ?

Thanks for explaining more about the 2.5D, interesting.

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I am using the same filter, and I get similar output BUT The source I use to get this output is NOT the same as is really different for me using 3 render maps as source than using 1 only 2D image and nothing else.

lol yeah duh Just repeated what I said haha.

Nice hearts!

Thanks Carl, Glad you like them.

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Carl wrote: wonder how Clockwork filter would look

Well, I think that there is only one way to know it, trying it

I will try it and put an example here

Sorry Carl that I has not been able to show it before, but I got a problem, one of the asteroids from the other 3D thread has broken the source image of your clockwork and now I have to make it again

Thanks to ThreeDee for the Shattered Glass

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SpaceRay wrote: broken

Bad bad Space Ray, you broke my clockwork

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SpaceRay wrote: Sorry that it does not look very well and beautiful as others

still looks cool, needs a version of clockwork without the gradients to work better by the look of it ...... well done SR

Well that´s the difference between using only one diffuse map for both diffuse and height and using a bump map for the height input

The height is based on the light and dark values of the input map. Light areas are high and dark areas low.
Now the values of your source image don´t always correspond with the desired height values and so you get bad results. For example you could have something in a dark color in your image that sticks out, but now when you feed it into the filter it gets pushed in and looks all weird

I have seen that I forgot to tell a very important thing here, and is that if you want to use these 2D images instead of the render maps, you just load the same image replacing the 3 render maps settings as you can see in the screenshot that is on this above post here.

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SpaceRay wrote: I have seen that I forgot to tell a very important thing here, and is that if you want to use these 2D images instead of the render maps, you just load the same image replacing the 3 render maps settings as you can see in the screenshot that is on this above post here.

Well, I have just discovered when trying this again that although this is true, alternatively you can use:

Diffuse Map = one image as the color tint that will be shown as overlay

Bump Map and Reflectivity Map = with another different one that will be the texture background

In this example I have used these 2 images

Diffuse map (made from my own sierpinski filter)



Bump Map and Reflectivity Map (made from Circular Reasoning by Rachel Duim)



and you get this using the Spherical Previewer 2 zoom added filter that you can download here