Hi Friends,
I've gotten totally sidetracked trying to make a filter that looks like what I'm calling gilding. And I'm so excited, because it's the first time I've ever been able to make more than a very simple filter from scratch! And also it's the first time I've gotten the Specular Lighting primitive to work. It's not working exactly like I want, and I haven't figured out all the settings yet. But up till now, I couldn't make it work at all. So I'm happy to have what I've got so far.
Anyway, it's not exactly gilding, or maybe it's a certain kind of gilding. It's not solid gold, but sort of streaked on, to wood. Supposed to look a little like rough, old wood. I'm not sure if it will be just brown raw wood, or painted wood.
So I'm having 2 problems with it. One is with the getting the filter just right. Attached is an SVG file with the filter, so you can look at it. What I need is for the gold streaks to be spaced a little further apart, without making the streaks any wider. The way the Turbulence primitive works, the streaks can be wider and spaced apart more, or thinner and closer together. But I need them futher apart, and not any thicker.
I haven't tried the Morphology primitive yet. I wonder if that could help? I wonder if I make the streaks wider and spaced apart the right amount, if I could use Morphology to thin them down again, while staying spaced properly? Hhmm, it says "for single color objects". I guess the turbulence streaks aren't really objects. (.....hhmmm, I need an object to path for the turbulence streaks, lol!)
And btw, this is an overlay filter. The other problem is that this is going over an image of a picture frame. As it is now, the streaks are vertical. But for the picture frame, the streaks will have to be horizontal for the top and bottom sides of the frame. How do I make the streaks go horizontal?
If I flip those sides 90 degrees, then apply the filter, then flip them back, would that work?? Well, it does seem to work.... But I wonder if there's a better way?
Thanks for any comments or suggestions
