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Rovastar
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Flowfield Unions in Gold

Post by Rovastar »

NOw I have finally got hold of gold and seen the flow field unions (nice btw - tidy it would be easy to acheive 'messy' unions but this is not the case)

BUt I have a suggestion could you display when prwessing 'L' the both teh Flowfields obviosly there are 2 FF's at once and a union to join them but the info only dispalys one of the FF's the 'newest'.

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Post by Rovastar »

Also how do I force a change to the make unions come up liek I can do with waveforms, flowfields and colour maps.

It is really difficult for testing when making new ones.

ANyway I have only played with FF Unions for a few minutes but made this

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//Rovastar - Madness Flower

A0="( 20 + flor(rnd( 40 )) )", //complexity 

ALFA="sin((r)*A0*0.75)+cos((theta)*A0)" 

Vers=250
enjoy. :)

More later no doubt.

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You're Right...

Post by JayPro »

There should be a reserved keystroke to toggle random Unions. I must admit it's a bit trying on the patience to wait for a Union to organically happen...unless one manually changes the Prefs file to increase Union probability.

Do tell if you have something(s) further to share with the rest of the class. ;)
"God is syntax."

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Post by Rovastar »

There is nothing defined for a GF union at least not displayed via the help.

Oh that reminds me.....

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Post by Rovastar »

Actually I think this makes a better union. I keep teh range between 0 and 1 (rather than -1 and 1) so more blending.

Still working out how to get the best from these.

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//Rovastar - Madness Flower 

A0="( 20 + flor(rnd( 40 )) )", //complexity 

ALFA="0.5+(0.25*sin(r*A0*0.75))+(0.25*cos(theta*A0))" 


Vers=250

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Post by JayPro »

Actually, on the one hand, the first version is truer to the title of the effect.
On the other, version #2 seems to coalesce things *much* better, albeit at a sacrifice to creating your "flower" effect.
believe you me, these things *are* tricky; but getting it right is worth the agita.
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Post by Rovastar »

Yeah I know what you mean. It is my first go and just through a few basic effects in there. I think big 'petals' (reduce A0 should to between 6 and 12) should work better

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