Mad Abstract Experiment Background

very cool! like some sort of metal insect. is it surface or simple? and, where do i get my copy?

excellent! i'd love to see it! mail away

very cool!

i've had a chance to mod it a bit and look around. i've sent you back my latest mod copy. check out the elevation gradients

i mentioned in the email that you guys use offsets much better than i do. i guess i dont quite understand what they're doing and how they work. i know if you plug a control into horizontal or vertical that it will move the image globally by that much on the control. so, one control value is being applied across the whole. but, when you use another image to do the offset is it like overlaying the added image at the source and assigning a value to each of those pixels and then moving each of the other's pixels by that much?

anyways, here's a sample from my mod. this is the default, so you can already see it. it took almost 11 minutes on my rig. why is this filter so slow? is it the offsets that are doing that?

Pretty cool designs here, the edges probably won't ever be quite smooth/lined up perfectly, but the *looks* from a distance are pretty sci-fi victorian eh.

jffe

victorian sci-fi... i like that

the edges could be worked out better with a bit of work... maybe. but i wouldnt know where to start with designs like this. CF has some fairly intricate stuff going on in there and what you did way back in the early parts of the routine would have large consequences in the latter parts, so yeah, working out the edges and such could get pretty tricky. more fun to just ignore them and keep making metal insects

i tried that 'what colors' filter, CF. i replaced the 3 color grad with an image component and plugged in an image. i'm nearly as lost as ever on offsets. what is that thing reading? which color or which point is it reading to display just that one color? is it reading just the very center pixel or something, because when i also move the vertical offset, that will change the color also. i are confused.

What Colors by CFjM rev 1a.ffxml

thanks, CF. way smarter than me on this

one nice thing about CF's filter is, with just small changes in the components you can make an almost infinite number of weird, strange and cool variations.

indeed

i've made quite a few mods of this thing. i still think your original image here is the best, but i've been quite hooked on making more and more mods. lol. i've cut the time down quite a bit, removing over half of what was there. in some versions i added more components and in others i removed stuff. this one is one where i removed stuff:

Man, I really want this filter. So unique.
I could really put this to good use.

I'll pick it up when it's submitted.
I don't have pressing need, just the usual. Thanks anyway.

oh, another way cool one, CF

you ought to name the individual presets. that last one could be praying metalmantis.

hehe, no, i'm one of the lesser known transformers