download ==> omino_spindala_32.pbk, an After Effects filter.
Always doing things the hard way. Needed a wheel with some symmetry, like so:
How else to do it than by drawing a circle with some blobs, and then treating it with… a handwritten pixel bender kernel:
I started describing its controls, but wouldn’t it be more fun to just try it out? Below is a slightly reduced version of the Pixel Bender kernel running in Flash.
Give it a spin! Try the parameters, or click Scramble a few times, or Go, to let it choose random parameters.
There’s no shortage of vaguely-trippy image manglers, these days, but that’s no reason not to indulge.