Inverting Things with Spherical by tatasz, literature
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Inverting Things with Spherical
A few uses of spherical. Those are not all, not any close to it even, but hopefully a good bunch of directions and ideas.
Part of "structured IFS" Series
Circle / Spherical
To make an inverse of a circle, you can use spherical as linked transform:
Circle_blur (left) and same with a post linked spherical (right)
Hypertile (left) and hypertile with a linked spherical (right).
When you need to create an inverse but don't want to interfer with the shape, you may use 2 chained sphericals. Their effect on the other transforms will cancel each other (one inverts the circle, and the next one inverts the inverse of the circle, bringing it back t
Today, we will look at Glynnsim3 transform by eralex61 (https://www.deviantart.com/eralex61): GlynnSim plugin
It can be used to create works like the ones below:
Lets see what is it all about =D
The basic shape
Lets first figure out what glynnsim3 does. We will apply it as final transform to a checkboard pattern.
Default checkboard (left), Glynnsim3 with thickness = 0.1 as final transform (middle) and Glynnsim with thickness = 0.5 (right):
The width of the ring is controlled by the thickness variable.
Feel free to grab the starting params for the Glynnsim3 pattern below: Glynnsim3 Starter Kit
You can see above that Glynnsim3 needs some sort of a ring battern to fill it