Suggest a new filter.

I donno, personally, by the appearance you're getting it kinda feels like much of it is achievable without doing an iterative process.

See I was wondering if I should mention that critique. I'm often a bit critical / honest about my thoughts so forgive me if I kinda turn things upside down over a fun thing.

In the case with this filter, what got me was the output. Basically, I personally think it's something achievable through some other means. So like, as a filter, it's technically very good! But as an output, it needs work. The catch with reaction-diffusion is its patterns. The consequent emergence of pattern distributed phase upon phase is basically what makes it so special. So I think you just need more iterations to achieve a fuller, more confident effect.

The current output, given how you (and me) have sacrificed that iteration count, results in a rather basic "outline filter". So it looks like the good ol' median->highpass->threshold chain with some additional effect on it. Ok, so why not submit it over technical reasons, for example as a snippet? The issue is that people are gonna be people. The library, being a public place, is one of those places where some folks hardly read the point and purpose of a filter. They just look at the example pictures and go "Oh ok, this is a cartoon effect / artistic outlining filter!" and then discover how slow it is for what it achieves. Ultimately the critique does go to FilterForge, and it's hardly my concern what bashing people give it. But I just also think authors are responsible for what they make. You just wanna make sure what you put online is reasonable for what it does. Hence what method you use is very critical to its final appearance.

So in our current discussion, I just think the filter needs to be pushed to achieve a more distinct appearance. It just needs more awesome!

Once again, this is just my stance in things. I'm typically critical and I just like to push things a bit more if I see potential in them. I guess I'll make more examples of Reaction-Diffusion stuff. Best if we have more examples.

I tried some variations, this is what I was looking for (or closer anyway ). I'll post a couple of more of these variations in Chaos Fields. You can find the letter C,F,R, the pi symbol, and the number 4 in this image. FWIW.

New filter proposal :
Formula 1 cars creation kit
I'm thinking to make a filter giving the chance to create small F.1 cars ( mostly cars from the '65 to the '80, that have less complex design ).
It would be even nicer if also other people could make their own one.

We could split the car in parts ( front wing, top, center, sides, etc. ), giving different options for every part.
The chance to use several images could allow us to add sponsors or numbers, or special color designs.

I thought that the top view can be the best, but the side or the front view can be good too.

Is there a filter that can make these kinds of transparent shapes with the highlights and shadow?

I'm afraid that combining those two filters is way past me. Maybe ThreeDee could do it?

Ha ha ha! Man I have no idea what that's all about. I'm just going to leave this one to the X-perts

Fake it and make it.

Inujima's Cubes effect really demonstrates just shading alone can go far. No need for fancy!
http://filterforge.com/filters/10000.html

Hello, I have just seen this lovely, elegant and beautifully done gradual gradient circles with an outline that look very good and also includes some that gradient circles without outlines and that looks like small clouds

Colorful Circle Gradient Outlines (See below a screenshot)

and I think that surely this can be done in FF, because Skybase has already done something similar

Gradient Circles

Gradient Shapes

and maybe to get the outlines it could be done seeing how it is done this other Skybase filter

Circle Stained Glass Lite

And the gradient inside could be perhaps done with this snippet by voldemort

Sphere without frame snippet

To convert the gradients circles to small clouds still have to see how to do it

DJI. I think here could be the answer to make those 3D figures :
ThreeDee tutorial

I have a gut feeling the filter will follow a similar structure to this: https://filterforge.com/filters/471.html

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Skybase I have a gut feeling the filter will follow a similar structure to this ( Adaptive Tiling filter)

Well, so you are suggesting that this filter could be modified to make something like the examples shown in my last email above?

Just by changing the source shapes? Or would be needed something more as I suppose

K never mind I figured it out with my triangles thing.

Cool and nice, but this does not have any of the black outlines that the example shown have, and I know that you can do it as shown on other filters like Mondrian or Circle Stained Glass

Maybe this could be done perhaps in a possible similar way mixing the Adaptive Tiling plus as shown here on your post

What if we are looking at the problem from the wrong side?
Maybe we could make the pattern and then apply the picture

I got an idea. It is less automatic than Percolator, but it could give some result. To see if it is possible to make it through a filter, I have two questions, if anybody knows how to do.

Let's suppose that we can create the pattern ( made of circles, squares, or other shapes ), but only in black background with white shapes. Is there a way to assign a color to every circle on the basis of a picture?
I make a concrete example:
- Let's suppose to have a pattern of different size circles.
- Let's use our FF lifesaver as picture.
Some area we will have only white or orange color, so, even a large circle will only met one color.
But some area will be a mix of colors. If we want that the circle covering that area is only one color, how to do?

Second question:
Let's use the same example of before, and again the case of one color or many colors in an area. Is there a way that the filter may automatically apply the choice A instead of the choice B depending on having one color or many colors in an area?
I don't know if this is possible.
Just wondering.

Thank you for the answer.
I start working on it. Let's see how it goes.

Another example of the Cartography lines I am talking about above.

Any stereographic projection filter?
To make things like these :

Thanks SpaceRay.

Yes, I have some apps for smart phone (Little Planet, Planetical, TinyPlanet).
I wanted to find their version for desktop, but there is not.
( Working on computer graphic using a smart phone is not the best )

or this

or this

And I'm aware of the really nice FF filter here named Ammonite, however it does not apply these patterns and does not do the half slice.

Hi folks. I just submitted a new filter. It's called Unclassified Organic Substance#1. It's a modification of my filter Shallow Folding Rock Formation. I've used the Cells component for the noise. What's strange is that some of the presets appear to shift back and forth from convex to concave without my having inverted the image like an optical illusion.( I was shooting for just convex.) Is it some of the color combinations along with the cells shape that is doing this? Here's the default preset. This one stays put. variation 12 only seemed convex the first time I made it.