TileScramble Breaks the image into rectangular tiles and shifts the image within each tile to create an effect like a wall of small randomly oriented mirrors reflecting the source image. The amount and direction of shifting are controllable. Inputs: Source:  The input clip to be warped.

Parameters:

Tiles:   Default: 10,  Range: 1 or greater.
How many tiles across the image. Increase for many tiny tiles; decrease for a few large ones.

Tile Rel Width:   Default: 1,  Range: 0.01 or greater.
Scales the height of each tile.

Tile Rel Height:   Default: 1,  Range: 0.01 or greater.
Scales the width of each tile.

Tile Shift:   X & Y,   Default: [0 0],  Range: any.
shifts the edges of the tiles in X and Y. This doesn't shift the contents of the tiles, just the boundaries. Animate for an interesting effect.

Scramble Speed:   Default: 0.1,  Range: any.
How much scrambling to apply to each tile. Zero gives the original image.

Scramble Rel X:   Default: 1,  Range: 0 or greater.
Relative scramble amount in X. Set to zero to get only vertical scrambling.

Scramble Rel Y:   Default: 1,  Range: 0 or greater.
Relative scramble amount in Y. Set to zero to get only horizontal scrambling.

Rotate Warp Dir:   Default: 0,  Range: any.
Rotates the warping direction by this many degrees. Animate to rotate the tiles around for an interesting effect.

Z Dist:   Default: 1,  Range: 0.01 or greater.
Scales the distance of the image in each tile in or out from its center. Increase to zoom out, decrease to zoom in.

Seed:   Default: 0.123,  Range: 0 or greater.
Used to initialize the random number generator. The actual seed value is not significant, but different seeds give different results and the same value should give a repeatable result.

Wrap:   Popup menu,  Default: No.
Determines the method for accessing outside the borders of the source image.

No:  gives black beyond the borders.

Tile:  repeats a copy of the image.

Reflect:  repeats a mirrored copy. Edges are often less visible with this method.

Filter:   Check-box,  Default: off.
If enabled, the image is filtered when it is resampled smaller. This gives a better quality result when Z Dist is greater than 1. Has no effect when Z Dist is 1 or less.

See Also:

FlysEyeRect Mosaic KaleidoSquares WipeTiles

TileScrambleMask

Sapphire Plug-ins Introduction

© 2010, GenArts, Inc. All rights reserved.