Thought I would do a Chihuly inspired glass scupture. Though I used Flame Painter to create the segment, I did use a copy/rotate Script-fu, and G'MIC's B/W Sketch and Rodilius all blended in a synergistic way to create the glass flower result. I chose PNG and transparent background so folk here can choose what background they want to place this one on since I give it as a humble gift to those who choose to click (i.e., consider it open source).



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Beautiful! It's like a stained glass window.

Thank's O; figure I should, at least, share the individual segment which got rotated 30 times. Also did a dup horizontal flip and some more tricks too for the actual rendering.

Thought I would share too a whirl/pinch variation and only 15 rotations; same pattern segment.



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Looks eyeballish

I like the second one.
It has a strong 3-D feel - translucent with multiple layers of complexity - like a real piece of glass art.

Thanks BK; still haven't figureout out show to make a protuding Sphere like Chihuly does yet, but hopefully I will.

Create the base flower, dup, map opject (plane) and rotate along y-axis, cut result in half and paste, move half of cut below base flower keeping the other above. Repeat process how many times you feel like doing so.



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I love the variety of translucent colors in the symmetric patterns. Eye candy!!

Thanks Tux; noticed that I did indeed clip my rotated sphere one though. Oh well; never said I was perfect.

Sorry folks; still more of my binge madness. lol

Had to use Ubuntu One to host this file since it's over 5MBytes (which exceeds the Shack's limits).

Wow, very pretty Lyle.

Those are fantastic Lyle!
I agree with Tux, definitely eye candy.

Glad you liked them Rod/Molly/Tux and all. Believe I finally got this binge out of my system though. lol

Oh Wow, this last one is fantastic! It's so delicate looking.

Just don't drop it 2-ton; it might shatter into a bajillion virtual bits.

OK; this is the closest that I can figure out to rotate a segment around the z-axis. Still not quite right and cheated for the back side. XY circular rotation apparently easy since I have 2 ways to do this (thanks to smarter folk then me). To rotate around and arbitrary Z-axis point is a lot of work. Anyway, showing this result to explain what I'm trying to do; maybe a guru here has a cool way or maybe someone here knows of a rotating lathing plugin or script-fu that can do this (G'MIC's lathing function is not quite what I'm looking for I don't believe).

Still experimenting and decided that I'll share more of my madness with you all. lol

Felt no need to start a new thread. Still created a single target with Flame Painter again and used the copy/rotate Script-fu, but then, with my new understanding of Mathmap's Droste, I created the spiral result and then used Mathmap>distort>sphere for the Chihuly inspired Sphere. Now I did use Eyecandy 3's glass with selective masking to get the bumpy glaze effect.

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there's something here that reminds me of the work of this fellow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ircincyjim ... 971598475/


Creature from the Deep #0450 | ©2011 - Jim Kramer by IR Cincy Jim, on Flickr

and I mean the texture, colors.....facinating stuff. He photographs liquids in motion.