Texture Challenge #3

Namssor Daguerre posted up some really cool texture challenges so I thought I would join the fun.

The end result will be a warm, full-color quality photo with no distortions or artifacts. Can you reconstruct it? First person to post it up once you solve it and you get $1000L. Let us know how long it took you to solve it.

If the challenge becomes too difficult I will post up one or two hints along the way.

No fair No fair, I wanna play too but don't have the programs hehe. Looks fun tho

Tough but fun - very different techniques from Namssor's

Woot! Way to go Seifert!

Wish I'd seen this sooner Good job Seifert! Nice puzzle Kurshie. If you don't mind, tell us the transforms Seifert or Kurshie.

The process is as follows to solve the puzzle...

1. Offset (H: 224 / V: 224)
   
2. Seperate the inverted pattern piece from the non-inverted pattern piece. (See below for the pattern key). The pattern piece cut away onto its own layer will be known as Layer 2 (the inverted piece). The other being Layer 1 (non-inverted piece).
   
3. Invert Layer 2.
   
4. Offset Layer 1 (H: 0 / V: 224)
   
5. Offset Layer 2 (H: 224 / V: 0)
   
6. Rotate Layer 1 90 degrees Clockwise
   
7. Rotate Layer 2 90 degrees Counter-Clockwise
   

That's it! The pattern key was custom made and required the user to know how to create the pattern in order to have a key to reconstruct the image to its original self. Otherwise it would require some tedious manual work.

I started by inverting each of the circles, which seemed like a good idea - many of the circle edges vanished. Then I made the grid, and inverted that. Now everything was reddish tones (it was nice that the final image is mostly reddish, otherwise it might not have been so obvious that that was a good move). Then split the image up into bits covered by the grid and bits not, then into the four quadrants, and shift and rotate everything around until it looked good. Then all that was left was (for some reason) to swap and rotate the two circles in each quadrant