Gossamer - released 10/02/2015

[Red ochre 1,448]

::keywords::edges|shading|halo|gossamer|cobwebs|outlines
::Menu::Effects/Iterative lines
::Original release date:: 10th of February 2015
::Author:: Red ochre (John Robbins)
::dll name:: Gossamer

Works on both Pdn 3.5.11 (old) & Pdn 4.0.5(current).

Firstly, thank you to my fellow dwarves, TechnoRobbo and Ego Eram Reputo, for their help testing and useful suggestions.

This effect works in two stages.
Step 1: shows the 'edge' pixels it has found as red dots on a black background.
Step 2: Draws lines from one edge pixel to another, with a choice of distance, colour and opacity.

NOTE: if there are a large number of 'edge' pixels found or the number of lines per pixel is large, it can be very slow. However under normal usage it only takes a few seconds.

Here is the .dll and below are some examples with screenshots of settings.
Please post any images you make using it in this thread. I'd love to see what you can all make with it!
Enjoy.

Gossamer is now in my V10 plugin pack here:

Red ochre v10 plugin pack

 

[TechnoRobbo 1,158]

A Most Excellent plugin - the Master of Mathematical Art does it again.

[racerx 269]

Nice plugin. I used it to make the rings on my Saturn.......

[DrewDale 772]

This looks interesting, will have a play, cheers Red

[Red ochre 1,448]

Many thanks TR, for posting the excellent image and ideas for the effect.
('Converge' uses the 'knuth shuffle' first then linear through the arrays - default skips that stage but accesses the array randomly. I had some other ideas but they made things too slow.)

racerx - thanks for posting the image - the rings work well but the distant star background really steals the show!

Thanks Drew - glad your end of the internet has settled down today.

[nitenurse79 605]

Love it and the images posted so far. Thank you RedOchre

My quick try.

[Red ochre 1,448]

Thanks Nitenurse!

(I'm out of reps again - I won't forget)

[racerx 269]

The wife says "I aint' dustin' off those old trophies no more"...........

[Red ochre 1,448]

Nice one racerx - thanks for posting!

Looks like you were very successful.
I had bikes in the past (CX500, GT 550 & then an old CBX 550), amazing I'm still alive really!

Now get the duster out.

[Seerose 3,956]

Thank yo to all: Red ochre + Techno Robbo + ERR. There is absolutely magical plugin.   

 

[Pixey 3,756]

Thanks so much @Red for this really cool Plugin - very nice indeed .  After lots of playing about - Dada........

 

 

                                                          Mama

[TechnoRobbo 1,158]

Seerose and Pixey,you 2 are magical.

Pixey that image brought the wiggles song Feeling Chirpy to mind.

The Wiggles ~ Feeling Chirpy (2004): http://youtu.be/2rMi2YXGJEE

[Red ochre 1,448]

Seerose - that is beautiful! - exactly the effect I had in mind whilst writing the plugin.

 

Pixey - Glad you are enjoying the new effect. Good to see you exploring the 'Converge' option too.

 

Thank you both for posting the images - unfortunately I'm out of 'reps' at the moment. Have some cake till I get my next allowance

 

TR! - you've opened up new musical avenues for me!

[Seerose 3,956]

[Red ochre 1,448]

That looks good Seerose!
Now is that a small boat or a BIG spider?
Many thanks for posting the image.

[doughty 312]

Love the softness of the images above. But I took a wrong turn I think by staying up too late at night.

 

[Red ochre 1,448]

It's all about experimentation Doughty!

Judging by the colours, I think you may have pressed 'OK' when it was on 'step 1' then run it again using 'step 2'?.
That's fine (I like the result) but 'step 1' is really intended just to show which 'edge' pixels have been selected.
Adjust the top two sliders so that mainly edges show up in red.(more red = slower)
Then change to 'step 2' (without pressing OK) and adjust the other controls, then, when happy press OK.

Thanks for posting the image - sometimes it's good to use plugins in unorthodox ways!

[doughty 312]

I like what I did. I was seeing faces in the one above. I have another that looks like sticks tied together for maybe fencing or a hut. I like the hard lines. Another fav plugin from you. Thanks.

[Red ochre 1,448]

Glad you are having with it Doughty - it's one of my favourites to play around with!

[dipstick 863]

I recently made a 2.5-D animation on a still image I shot of a fallen tree. I used this plugin to make the spider web and decided to share as it looks pretty cool, I think..

 

spider_hole2.mp4 (3.4 MBs)

[Red ochre 1,448]

That's is Cool! - thanks for posting it.

We don't generally have poisonous spiders in England. However, I moved to the the south-coast a year ago and noticed an unusual spider in the conservatory. After looking up the species found it was a 'false widow' - bite/sting like a bee, apparently.
- Invasive species, dead now!
(I don't like killing things but it wouldn't pay rent).

 

I know, nothing compared to some of the beasts in Australia.

[barbieq25 929]

Creepy cool. Nice work!

 

Yep, in Australia everything wants to eat you or kill you.

[Djisves 106]

Poor creatures Down Under. But you know it's not their fault because they've had less time to evolve as species around a human-dominated environment.

Their instinct is not yet advanced enough to warn them that Homo Sapiens are toxic.

Edited April 7, 2016 by Djisves

[dipstick 863]

That's still a scary looking little spider Red. I don't normally kill spiders in my house. If one bothers anyone, I usually catch and release them outside. An old CD cake container and lid does the job nicely. Nature tends to keep things in check and balance and I try to keep it that way.

[Ego Eram Reputo 2,362]

Quite by chance I tried Gossamer to create some travel routes on an RPG world map. I was stunned to find that it worked even better than I had hoped!

 

 

Now all I have to do is place towns and cities at the intersections (the more intersections the larger the town) and my map has taken a massive step forwards.

 

 

Many thanks Red!