Thanks GT. It's from a photo I took, when the wife and I did a hike at Starved Rock State Park. It's the Illinois River, with the river valley in the background.

Definitely he mirrored reflections are awesome Warrior.

Planetary Nebula

Here is where I got the image circle extracted).

Nice work yet again Lyle.

Just finished this one up:

More great results, guys.


Thanks, Rod. I just had a chance to try out your seamless pattern. I used the Easy BRL map technique, with a green supernova and the results turned out pretty cool, posted here.

Here is my experiment

Cool map Marcello. I'll give it a try later.

Couldn't wait to get home and try that map Marcello. I knew it would be a good one:

A few different maps overlayed:

you are a master!

Haha, I don't know about that, but I sure have fun with it. One of the maps I used in that one was yours.

Great map, Marcello & nice results, Warrior.

I darkened the map a little by boosting the contrast, then softened the specular highlight.

Flat Bevel Result


Round Bevel Result

Nice GT. Marcello's map works out great.

Nice looking emap Marcello.

What I've seen made with it looks really great. Especially that lion that Warrior did.

Crazy the colors you can come up with:

Nice!
Looks like the same map, but with different colors. Did you apply color curves to the image to get those different colors?

Thanks Wallace. I ran the script using several maps, then set the layers to different modes.

EDIT: Overlayed a starry night pattern over this one:

I stand corrected.

just another idea ( not very well developped!)

Simple weave:



A little more fancy: