Having filled a circular selection with a metallic gradient, I ran selection bevel on it then repeatedly shrank the selection and repeated selection bevel. Afterwards I played with MathMap/distorts/enhanced pond followed by G'MIC thin brush smoothing. Enhanced pond gives some incredible design shapes.



This was an earlier one that I drosted.

I really like the top one cuz I love shiny. nice job

Thank you Molly. I'm a big fan of shiny too.

Going to have to play with enhanced pond since it did give a cool reflective quality to your disk Erisian. And you just know how much I like the droste result too.

both cool

@L
it is me or gmic droste is very different from the mathmap one ?
i just get effect of double mirror and works only with rectangular images (MM droste would work with any other shapes )

Yeah; G'MIC droste gives you the classic square result whereas Mathmap's Droste defaults to the spiral. Both are droste though; just different result. You can sort of mimic the spiral in G'MIC by using the angle slider and stuff, but it's a lot of work.

Thank you both for your comments. Glad you like them.

These three



Were all made from this one

From a simple embossed cross.

Like a pushbutton.



The embossed crosses are beautiful jewelry pieces Erisian.

Thank you Barbie. I like the animation - I might have a use for that idea.

Thank you for the jewelry idea Barbie. Molly would have done a better job of it though.

A six pointed star



And a layered disc

Those 6 pointed stars are great aris. woo hoo.

Thank you. It's so easy - just create any shape you like then play with Enhanced Pond.

I have never used that. Is it in GMIC?

It's in Mathmap/Distorts.

... and could be animated ( from the setting tab...from there you may even preview the single frames )

i like much all the 6 pointed stars

Nice work Erisian - another vote for the stars. Particularly like the Starfleet Medal

Make that 3 votes for the shurikens Erisian. Nice work.