In the beginning was just rust ... just a shot of rust , not even sure if was one of my photo or from some other source (in both cases i believe the real copyright should belong to the Nature )



But real natural rust in a photo seldom look sufficiently realistic,is no as the rust that attract more our unconscious attention, not as that in scenery of horror or steampunk movie ...instead i wanted iper-realistic rust

So first i make it seamless, so i used my graphic boost gmic filter to boost luminance and chromatic contrast and to make the detail more popping out


and i consider this the real start , here i post everything very scaled down ,but consider that at 100% zoom the detail look very different from what could be expected


the last 2 are identical except that the last was horizontally stretched to be 4.3

i already show this used as texture ( http://photocomix2.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d58lddb , http://photocomix2.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d58ld3s ) as planned

but i used also to create something else ... let it start with a filter , i had the image open in xnview so i used Fractalius , but if i had opened in gimp i would have used gmic Rodilius with quite similar results



from this i may get how variants i wish using Level...as i said i was on Xnview so i used "automatic level" gimp would habve offered much more options


and the nice thing is that any of those variation remain perfectly seamless as the original




Or i may populate the pattern with weird totemic beings by using mirrors... mirrors are so simple but so magic


and this that i am going to use for the final example



because all this may have a use :
as example i may open the last pattern , that just above in gimp, open mathmap , chose a distort or map filter and



and this last explain very well why i like have very huge pattern (original are about 6x bigger )

and of course same will work for globes, cubes, ellipsoids ...

Those rust images are great PC!
The Fractalius image looks like fiberglass up close.

i think this one looks really awesome !

another passage with graphic novel to make a sort of bas relief effect



and in case more seamless rust to start again...




or , if you prefer more dark ...

I agree, pretty awesome Photocomix. You could do so many things with the results

Nice PC, some of these would make cool planets
anyone know why it pauses sometimes, maybe it's my browser

thank for the comments ... nice globe too

i went on playing this time starting from the last image the rusted fence and the results were a lot of very special pattern...
a few examples

I love this image and the 3D effect.
Here I have applied what explained in this tutorial:
http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/exploding-planet

cool...very nice effect Yafu