Beta 2 Gallery

speaking of flowers...

Those are quite impressive. I can't think of a filter right now at all.

very cool, sjeiti. the flowers are a little glossy. any way to turn that down a bit? and the balls one, very cool. i could easily see this branching into 'beads' and 'beadwork'.

totte, is this it: http://www.google.com/search?q=H%C3%B...age=1&rlz= and a google search on the scientific name produced 'new york aster'. thanks

cool beans

i think flowers and such are going to be a lot easier with the new tools.

now that's an interesting interpretation of a stones component, skybase. has a sort of jackson pollock look to it.

Those are going to look epic with the Ambient Occlusion that's in Stage 2.

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Skybase wrote: .... because painting is fun

I agree completely.

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Indigo Ray wrote: Pointilism anyone?

Try restricting colors instead to luminance? :o

Indigo, the life saver in last one looks like the life savers looked when I was around 20 and took those 24 hour cruises on the Baltic sea between Sweden and Finland, on those party boats
very nice

Painting IS fun. (Wasn't necessarily so before.)

Hai ThreeDee!

Nice stuff.

Great to see you back 3D

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ThreeDee wrote: actually follow the contours in the image

that is the tricky bit, been trying to get it to work right myself [ without your success ], excellent the Van Gogh look

very cool! so, how do i get my hands on a copy of these?

Tell us your secrets.

ThreeDee, I love it. I just had to figure out how to recreate it and I think I've got it Here's mine, I didn't get the style to be very good like your first example, but I think the directional strokes part is pretty close.

Ooh, nice. I thought for a second that was another Van Gogh!

Did you dig out my method in the Foil Wrap filter or come up with a different one?

For those curious minds: I created normal maps from the image (blurred version) and converted them into angles -- or an approximation thereof, since I couldn't figure out how to do it accurately. (This convoluted routine is in the Foil Wrap filter posted in another thread). Then that angle is fed to the Bomber angle input.

Now it just needs a canvas background and 3D brush strokes and it will be just about as good as some dedicated programs.

hold crap, you guys are getting just too damn good! 3D, ben, both excellent! so, where's the posted filter?

good to have you back, 3D

I started from scratch, I figured there might be a snippet out there but didn't know what to look for. I ended up with a different approach. I had the same idea to make a normal map but went a slightly different way. I offset the blurred image 3 times in a triangle (didn't bother to do the exact math), inverted and multiplied with the original. Then assembled them into RGB and extracted H.

It's really interesting because the result that goes into rotation is quite different from yours but the final effect is very similar.

I copied my method into yours as an example. I noticed you're using a larger blur radius and applied to mine which helped a lot with transitional areas. Here's mine:

Directional paint Alt.ffxml

Awesome ThreeDee

That's really cool. I might have a go at rope after work. I haven't gotten the path aligning yet anyway, I'm not sure what you did to get that yet

Just brilliant. There's no other way of putting it. It's elaborate, complex, and yet the output is simple and beautiful.

Almost the same but with Particle Mode: Difference