Ghost Diagrams - Ball in a Wall

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:53 am **(#2)**

I do this a lot with fractals - it's great fun.I usually duplicate the ball at different sizes and spread them around a bit.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16252

While i was figuring out a bat file to run Ghost through Shellout i thought what the heck i may as well create something while i am here. :lol

Here is one i made a while back, about 2 years ago i think it was.

Gms9810 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:29 am **(#4)**

Reminds me of the 70s,which I made every effort to get out of.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

the first look more as a semi-sphere (that is still a cool effect) i think depend from the shadow

I really like the second too

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16252

PhotoComix wrote:

the first look more as a semi-sphere (that is still a cool effect) i think depend from the shadow

I really like the second too

That is the exact effect i was trying to establish PC! A ball stuck halfway through the wall.Or half a sphere.
Hence the topic title "Ball in a Wall"

I probably should have made the shadow surround the ball more for more of an impact effect though.Maybe darker also. Thanks for the kind comments.

Erisian wrote:

I do this a lot with fractals - it's great fun.I usually duplicate the ball at different sizes and spread them around a bit.

But then it would be called "Balls in the Wall"

Great idea though!

Gms9810 wrote:

Reminds me of the 70s,which I made every effort to get out of.

I was born in 1963 so right about 1970 i was age 7 so there was no escaping it for me. :lol

It does sort of have those hip colors though! :hehe

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:58 pm **(#7)**

Here's an animated fractal ball.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

pretty.

Barbie · **Joined:** Oct 07, 2011 **Posts:** 180

Oh wow Erisian that is soooo cool. I am all about animations. That must be a lot of work it has 30 Frames. You are deadly... a superior artist with animations skills.

I like without the background too.

Oops. I see the white line showing on the image above. I just did a quick background removal but this one I cropped the background out.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:45 pm **(#10)**

Thank you Barbie. It's actually very easy if you follow the spinning pole tutorial but map to sphere rather than cylinder. It does look good without the background as well.

http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2255

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

That is nice Barbie, what is causing the white seam on the side I wonder.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:13 pm **(#12)**

Barbie wrote:

Oops. I see the white line showing on the image above. I just did a quick background removal but this one I cropped the background out.

That's better. Looks good.

Barbie · **Joined:** Oct 07, 2011 **Posts:** 180

molly wrote:

That is nice Barbie, what is causing the white seam on the side I wonder.

Yeah... I noticed that too as soon as I posted it. I just did a quick removal of the first Frame to remove the background. But then re-did it properly by cutting out the background on all frames with circular select.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:36 pm **(#14)**

Thought I'd play a bit with this. There's some distortion for some reason but I'm having lots of fun with it.

Barbie · **Joined:** Oct 07, 2011 **Posts:** 180

That is so cool Erisian !
You didn't just make the ball touch the left/right sides but you actually made it more convincing with the "distorted stretching detail" of the ball to create the bouncing off the walls effect. (moreso on the rightside).

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

I hope this not too off topic, i didn't use ghost diagrams for those but the idea to use the same image for sphere and bg is the same

(click to enlarge )

She Breaks My Heart by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Xspheric Xmas gift 2 by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

same but with rhombus

Shape by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

back to sphere

Just a Drop ? by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

a dice with rounded corners would be OT ? (if you click for the original size, you get on a transparent BG )

rhombus by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

(i may explain how i did the dice in MM using sphere and rectangle2ellipsoid )

with different texture (btw ,my texture )

Spheric by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Mimetic Rolls by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

Same concept but with photographic background

Fairy's Castle by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

or psychedelic BG ?

Fractal Tunnel with sphere by PhotoComiX, on Flickr

animated

i could not find the ping pong version of this

i believe nobody else used this effect yet

hem..sorry for the flood but i think could be interesting as overview of possible effects