Not quite the same as this tut (but does use the Mathmap Distort>Sphere preset too). first, you need a square and seamless texture. Used one that posted at my Deviant (SSP; lol) for this tut.

ref: http://lylejk.deviantart.com/gallery/?o ... 8#/d2szz4j


First fill a large and square texture (add alpha transparency; you'll see why later) with your fill and then run Mathmap>map>Droste preset as shown:



Then run Whirl and Pinch filter as shown:



Now run the Mathmap>Distort>Sphere as shown (move slider for background transparancy. If you don't, your blackground will be black and you might want to use another background):



Now I just flattened (my background color is black) so it is what it is.

What the hey; here's one with a tighter tread.

Nice! You just keep cranking em out and we'll just keep finding new ways to play with them.

Years and years of near mindless play Mahvin; got to pick up something sometimes. lol

The Poincaré binge reminded my of this trick and I've referenced fake Poincaré more then enough times that a tut was in order. I might have posted it before, but I did a search and didn't find it.

looking over this thread I realize i don't have this mathmap plugin.

I did a bit of searching and found three files which I "think" I am supposed to install:

chpp_0.3.6-1_i386.deb
mathmap_1.3.5-1_i386.deb
mathmap_20090822-1_i386.deb


is that correct? before I blow something up, I just want to make sure........

I only had to install one file, not 3.

and which one was that, pray tell

mathmap_1.3.5-1_i386.deb My laptop is 32 bit.

it appears to have worked


Mom-rose-mathmap by cecilia fx, on Flickr


thanks, everyone!

I love learning something new every time I read this board

That's what its all about, learning something new.

I think i may have learned how to make quick eggs lol.
Using map object to sphere, and then Lyles settings with Droste gave some pretty cool results with this image.

Excellent Cecilia; Mathmap is not used that often (by me), but it does have some unique capabilities that's for sure.

Don't think I will be eating any grey color hour glass shaped eggs any time soon Rod (lol) but that is pretty cool.

Rod if you enable supersampling in mathmap ,and you use Map/sphere or Distort/sphere or Animation /animated Sphere with the number of frames set to 1 (all give quite different but quite good results ) instead then map to object you may get a higher quality, map object tend to...overstress the pixels.

MM supersampling if enabled help a lot

Only problem as default is disabled

I knew I posted a tut before; just not here. Slightly different (this one's better with the whirl/pinch settings), but I did list all the tools specifically. Click link below if you like.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read. ... e=36374860

That final result looks very nice. Well done!

the link in your tut can't work
dpr://galleries/3139800748/photos/554518
i don't think a link may start with "dpr"

I believe you can the image itself by right-click properties on the image, but the direct link to my tut itself works PC (at least for me; maybe I'm not understanding what you want to do).

I kind of got carried away with the Pinch and Whirl part.

A pinch taken to an extreme can hurt you odin. lolol

Thank you Lyle, I'll try to do your tutorial as the result is very nice.
I attach your tut in .PDF just in case someone wants to it.