Hey Maccers!
Have some fun exploring some of Chris Cox's early work.
HERE
are the original Chris's Filters, from 1995. I don't find them all useful, but I still use "Hairy Noise" and "Fractal Noise" all the time to generate organic textures. And "Checkers" comes in handy as well. I could locate a link to Chris's filters on some obscure FTP somewhere, but it's too much trouble, so I'm hosting the files on my Comcast space. He's given me written permission to redistribute the filters as long as everything included in the original folder from 1995 was intact.
And I have to wonder...screen grabs I've seen of the new "Fibre" effect in Photoshop 8 looks a LOT like "Hairy Noise."