Preserved Topic: i have a displacement filter and i dont know how to use it!

Has anybody ever used the displace filter? i think that can be used to make a basic simple wire frame... atleast it is the only thing that looks like it could. and no, i am not trying to make a sphere! Anybody?

simplicity in perfection

eyezaer:
You can use a displacement filter to do simple wireframes, yep.

You need duplicate that shape you want to wireframe and put it in a second document. Take the shape, then select it, and do gaussian blurs (imagine you're making a channel for Doc's lighting effects tutorials). Save that blurred black and white image as whatever you want.

Go back to the original shape document. Make whatever pattern that you want your wireframe to have, and paste it on a new layer. Select the Displacement filter...now search for the blurred version you saved, and set it as your displacement map.

Cut away any excess space on the wireframe layer..and voila..done deal.

Too fast?

Hope it helps, I can explain in more detail if needed.

Peter



ICQ:# 10237808

speaking of the displacement filter.. are there any good tutorials on it?

experimenting in displacement...



[This message has been edited by la'dsasha (edited 11-09-2000).]

What's that???
Cimanon?

*blush* its kind of a private joke between my boyfriend and i.

dont you put cimanon on your toast?

That sure is funny. An inside joke that no one except you gets...

i don't think i want to get it...

*shudders*

cheers.mikey.milker

sorry <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/frown.gif">

it just goes back to before we were sort of an item.. i just kinda said it and he thought it was cute. so... hes commented code for me in php that has the word "cimanon" in it somewhere and i use it in photoshop experiments.

Displace - a very powerful, useful, nonintuitive filter. You children don't have the benefit of Kai Krause's benchmark tutorials. Some of 'em are obsolete due to advancements in Photoshop (he wrote them back in the version 2 - 2.5 days), but happily the displace filter hasn't changed functionality.

Read about it at
HTTP://www.pixelfoundry.com/Tips/KPT7/KPT7.html

Here's the basic concept. You have one file (the one you want to distort: your project - I'll call it Master file.) You have another file, grayscale, saved in Photoshop format. I'll call it D-Map. Ideally the two files match size, but not necessary. Displace looks at the brightness values in the D-Map file and pushes the pixels in an x and y coordinate in the Master file. Light areas in the D-Map file push pixels in Master up and to the left. Dark values in the D-map file push pixels in the Master file down and to the right. So if your master fie is, let's say, a flag (just a flat rectangle with stripes) and your D-Map file is made with the clouds filter (again jsut a quick example), applying the Displace filter could put ripples into the flag.

This is a very simplistic example. Kai goes much deeper. Read it. A 2 channel file can separate up and down from left and right. Put avertical linear gradient in one channel and a horizontal linear gradient in the other and strange things happen. Put a radial gradient and see what happens. Coolness for sure.

But ... if you want detailed wire frame effects, don't go looking for them in PS. If you made a file to look like graph paper and displaced it, you'd get a cool image, the graphi would certianly distort, but nothing like what DG has been presenting - nothing realistic like that.

[This message has been edited by Steve (edited 11-09-2000).]

la: oohh.. i was just giving you a hard time, nothing serious in the least bit.

it's not your fault i hate women.. at least all the ones i have met so far (especially those darn ex-girlfriends). <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/tongue.gif">

haha.. and to think i wonder sometimes why i can't seem to meet girls anymore, woohoo!

cheers.mikey.milker

you hate women? i didnt ask... and i still dont want to know

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ah, i see... i dont have the $ (or time) for any other programs now... i am just trying to get the most out of photoshop.. i thing the distorting factor is what really messes up wire frames... i havent tryed DG's sugestion yet, it looks pretty good though. thanxs again...



simplicity in perfeciton

Uhm...eyezaer? could you ease up a little on the bigass sigs...and maybe avoid the flaming stuff...it kinda hurts my eyes and contrasts an awful lot with the dark oranges of the forum...in my opinion.

-"From within the mirror's eyes, I'm forced to run away and hide. I feel those mystic eyes subside and leave me blind...Through passages in time a prisoner locked behind the door, lonely roses slowly wither and die." Symphony X, "Candlelight Fantasia", The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

i actually like eyezaer's .sigs somewhat... honestly i wish you'd keep the one with the hidden devil, maybe just shrink down the image size if possible?

the style you're playing with has potential though, keep at it.

cheers.mikey.milker

yea slo, I happen to like eyezazer's sig. I don't think you have the right to comment on other people's sigs when yours is probably the worst on the board.

Hey, displacement filter, that sounded like fun! I've never really messed with it much, but the explanation was clear, I gave it a try, what do you think?
http://www.primalshape.com/displace/



Your pal, -doc-

Oh, very cool, Doc...I couldn't get it to work myself actually...

Mbridge: Oh...and I like it...it's pretty good and all...but it's large...It's a great improvement over the last...that one still gave me the box impression because of how the lines suddenly ended right at the edges... the new one is much nicer...I've taken a liking to it after looking at it for so long...I just wish is didn't have that bright white...

Too much white light hurts my eyes...I really like the dark orangish color of the forum and I think my darkish red stuff on the current sig really fits in well...And I'm gonna leave that as my sig and work on improving my graphics work now...



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doc: 4th one looks sharp.. it's nice how it doesn't distort the actual background, know what i'm saying?

sloloem: you're really going to keep that .sig? hahaha... hahaha... ha.

cheers.mikey.milker

That is SWEET Doc.

wow... mikey milker handin out compliments... thanks man.

i was afraid i was gonna have to blast sloloem with my original RDS. fortunatly for him and the rest of us he has *seen* the light. as for the size, i dunno of anybody that can talk except for the Doc himself...


simplicity in perfeciton

Wasn't that in another post somewhere? Does anyone wanna dig it up?

R.D.S. - Retina Distructo Sig.

I was talking about Doc saying something about size...and please, keep your RDS away from me.



[This message has been edited by Sloloem (edited 12-09-2000).]

ok. if you are nice. if you can be. i am sure you can be. i think.

I'm not quite sure myself...I still want something better from mikey than "uuhhhh..." for my Resident Asshole button.

it is a lot easier to get through life if you dont expect people to owe you anything... and HAH HAH... Mr. Mikey Milker gave me A compliment!!


simplicity in perfeciton

Whoa Doc - pretty, pretty.

I tried one too:
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/s-nelson/sn-displace.jpg

As Kai said: "displace is nice"

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[This message has been edited by Steve (edited 12-09-2000).]

cool stuff Doc + Steve...gotta play with displce <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

To everyne else: Layoff Sloloem for christ's sake!!!!!!!!!

sheesh, cut the guy some slack...we've abused him a ton already (myself included obviously <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif"> and he's taken it well and his sig is far better than it used to be!!!

and yes, Doc *did* already comment on sig size, many months ago, and yes I did dig it up and repost it twice already....please find it and read it <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">


Ask for opinions At Your Own Risk!

Cewl stuff with that grids..
I like it.. will try out some things with the describtion aswell!

damn.. my sig does not match the background.. forgot the 3 multiply layer <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

have to fix this... .. .

tried the description of darkgarden: great!
nice effect and good desciption how to do <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

fixed <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Okay, inspired by Doc and Steve using the damn filter (that I barely use oddly enough) I decided to test my own method..~lol~

I like the results so far, I think I'll be exploring this further.
http://salvagion.com/doc_o/displace.jpg

I liked the filter before, but I'm glad this question came up to be answered, so we could all play a little bit <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Peter



ICQ:# 10237808

DG, I really dig it.
I've been fooling with the Displace filter myself for awile now, and have achieved some pretty rad stuff. One question: How did you get the "behind" part of the wire frame?
I've played with all sorts of variations trying to do exactly what you did and it never looks right. Hope you don't mind sharing.

woo-hoo....finally got it to work!



mobrul- invert your displacement map image and save it.....do a second displace with the inverted map, play with the layer settings <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">


Ask for opinions At Your Own Risk!

the prob with doing wireframes in photoshop is that ya cant make them very small...

Oooohh - nice! nice!

Me too! Me too!
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/s-nelson/warp.jpg

DL-44 Thanks alot. I really wish that I could participate more. You guys (and girls, la' and anyone else out there) are great. Need some free webspace. Looking into it but really busy with work right now. I guess it can wait just a little bit longer....