Raz

6th May 2003 16:19 UTC

Alien Material
It's about time i started playing with convultion filter and colour map a little more. On a big complex DM inspired by UnConeD and some squares and there we have it. Lets have some nice comments please :D

Wiser87

6th May 2003 16:31 UTC

:igor:


I must say, that's the most complex colormap I've ever seen!

Raz

6th May 2003 16:36 UTC

Works well though don't it :D

Jaheckelsafar

6th May 2003 16:43 UTC

I liked it better without the colourmap. I'm not a huge fan of insanely colourful presets.

sidd

7th May 2003 01:21 UTC

not bad at all! I DO like th colour map, just not those colours.
try to use 'methodic' colours, like ones that actually go together.

Raz

7th May 2003 03:27 UTC

Ahh you can all go to hell i love those colours :p if you want some better colours disable the last effect list. Theres some "better" colours for you but i still prefer it the way it is.

sidd

7th May 2003 09:07 UTC

hehe. well said!

Tuggummi

7th May 2003 10:08 UTC

There's definetly some weird alien shit flowing around there... :igor:

Hehe, nice work with the colormap :up: But the problem here is i assume that it requires a pretty high resolution to look even somewhat good... Also are all those convolution's and fast brite's (which you could replace with the multiplier fyi.) really necessary? I think it needs a shitload more optimazation work on the trans effects, but i think this could turn out a great preset.

mquadrat

7th May 2003 19:16 UTC

Weird. Just weird ;) I agree with Tuggummi, with a little more work this one could really kick ass.

dirkdeftly

7th May 2003 21:06 UTC

actually, if you get rid of that last effect list, the colors go together very well - the opposites are great imo...but with the last effect list it's a lot slower and not that much better.
as for the convo before your colormap, i must ask...wtf were you smoking? balance it with more powers of two, and make sure the bias is a power of two. i sped it up in two seconds by changing the 10 to a 1 and adding a 4 in the middle.
if you get rid of that convo and add a different, stable blurring filter it gets a LOT faster. also, a small blur like this:
111
101
111
looks a lot better in place of the big fat greasy one imo.

Phaze1987

7th May 2003 21:54 UTC

weird shit :igor: But...Raz i think you have at least 15 über presets so what are you waiting for ? Enter winamp start avs fullscreen PRINT SCREEN then upload the pack :)

Raz

8th May 2003 17:30 UTC

I'm really really busy so i've just got enough time to psot this. Got to do 7 art study sheets, paint two art projets and do 1/5 of the entire 2 year I.T course in 7 hours. I'll put some work in on the preset tomorrow. Phaze, i'm too busy lately so avs has been an on/off thing when i get the time so i can't really do many presets. I don't have that much finished. I'll release when it's ready, probably in about 5 or 6 weeks because i finish exams in about 3 or 4 weeks, then i'll have time to make new stuff and perfetc it. For now i've got to go work, enjoy your freedom y'all.

UnConeD

8th May 2003 18:00 UTC

When using convolution, use powers of two as much as you can, especially for the division factor.

Also you can get fast, stable blurring convolutions differently. The one Atero posted is not bad, but here's a trick I discovered a while ago. If you use a kernel like this:

0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0

You get a fast blur that doesn't tend towards the x or y axis. One of these will still introduce a major visible distortion though, so follow it with another one, but this time mirrored.
You can also make a larger 7x7 version of it (same shape, first row is 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 for example) and put the 7x7 first followed by a mirrored 5x5.
Very fast, high radius and few noticable edges.

Yathosho

8th May 2003 22:22 UTC

this is one great preset. nevermind the color-criticism in this threat, that's all about taste.

blazer1504

9th May 2003 11:21 UTC

huh, that's the weirdest preset I've seen awhile. I like the chrome color in there but the color map is IMO just too f*cked up, try to decrease the amount of those colors and it's going to be great :) ;)

Raz

9th May 2003 16:39 UTC

Had a little spare time so i did this:

Phaze1987

9th May 2003 20:00 UTC

Hmmm...!!!!!This is sweet looking,i could watch it for hours :) Nice job dude.

hungryskull

10th May 2003 01:05 UTC

This is a very nice preset.:)

Jaheckelsafar

10th May 2003 05:43 UTC

Like the colours in this one alot more. :up:

dirkdeftly

10th May 2003 21:37 UTC

...i REALLY liked the first version (minus the last el) better :/

Raz

11th May 2003 11:51 UTC

That's basically what it is, but with the colour map optimised and a slight brightness. There's just no pleasing some people is there :p I know what the difference is though. The first one -EL has three colours and chrome and the second has two. I liked the opposite two colour schemes better than the three that were just random. The convultion filter has to be on 0 in the middle and on 10 where you said to change it to optimise it and i just like the other one better. If you like it that much more then watch that one instead ;)