Here is the modified tcl file with demo gif and ppm files. I renamed the original tcl file and included it in the zip. The files "generator.tcl" and "generator.tcl.old" file go into the bin folder. The ppm and gif files get added to the images folder. You can replace the 5 new gif and ppm files with your own.

Please let me know what you think.

Script works great; thanks a heap PM.

Looks good! I may end up adding another row of textures and some more background images too.

I know David's been buzy with the Sourceforge fiasco, but I do hope he sees this thread and maybe see if G'MIC can do these. Copy/Paste as bitmap isn't what I would like to do and not sure if I really want to learn blender just so I can use the stl files with it.

Still can't get into DA and DA still won't send me my @#$%!%$@ password!!!

Wow, that sucks. Not trying to make you feel bad, but I've been able to access my account there again since I posted earlier. Very odd that you can't get in.

I tried it too.(sculpture generator)
Since I don't have Windows had to use wine.
Stumbled upon a nice GUI to use Wine: q4wine.
http://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/document ... steps.html
I had to recompile my kernel though because it wants "fuse" enabled.
Too bad I can't save the files in a format that Gimp recognizes.
I wonder if it's not possible to achieve the same with the many filters available in Gimp.
Gerard.

I have access to my Deviant Art account also, no problems at all.
I also have FireFox set to remember passwords, maybe that's the difference.
That is weird though.

Works excellent for me too PM!
Thanks.

I didn't directly ask David (G'MIC), but did add a wishlist entry concerning this. G'MIC can do 3D; not sure if can manipulate stl files though. I know it can do mimimal surfaces (like the gyroid; David made a preset just for me a few months ago). Mapping textures to surfaces is another story; not happy with G'MICs results as I am with this little program.

I think G'MIC could do the whole thing, if the interface is built. I was thinking on this earlier and using the molten gold texture made this from the 3D object "Weird":

Thanks Lyle for sharing this gem, and PM for modifying the tcl file. Is there a limit to how many additional patterns you can add? I tried to add another 5 and thought I had all the bases covered, but it threw errors.

Anyway, it's been fun playing with the generator.

Wow; love that drift wood texture Mahvin; have a link to it? Again, I wish G'MIC would perspective texture like this program does, but it's probably just too much for a 2D app with some 3D capabilities to do. I'm still grateful that Schmiegel shared this one with me at his Deviant. This guy's stuff is nothing short of amazing by the way (as a side note, it was he who got me on my gyroid binge a while back). Linking his Deviant below.

http://my.deviantart.com/messages/#view ... 3A14463215

I forgot where I found this, probably on http://www.cgtextures.com/

I sort of modified it for sculpture generator. I'll add it here.

The code needs to be modified in a few places. I'll post something to say what I did and I will also be modding it to allow more patterns and backgrounds.

That's cool, PM. I didn't want to use up the existing patterns that came with it, because they can be useful. I did find that sometimes textures have an effect on the backgrounds, which is a bummer sometimes.

I always use a solid color background that doesn't appear in the pattern, so I can cut the background out in Gimp later.

Man, the generator.tcl file has more goodies to to improve the result. Below is an excerpt from my interaction with Schmiegel:

Your result looks awesome!
But I did it differently:
I edited C:\SculptGen\Sculpture Generator\bin\generator.tcl using a text editor.
The sliders ranges are defined in these keys: "inlinescale $name.bot."
Values seem to be: Min, Max, Stepping
Thanks to Carlo H. Séquin for creating an open and editable app!

Attached is something I did using that info. I bumped up the number of branches and holes to 32 as well as increase the quality (grid detail) to 19 (originally tried 32, but it crashed after I hit 20; chose 19 so I know it won't crash; lol). Pretty cool that you can customize this cool interface even more and I just wanted to share that info with all you enthusiast of this cool program.

Awesome stuff, Lyle, thanks!

Oooooh! More playing for me!!!

If the patterns we select are square (as opposed to rectangular), I wouldn't think they would effect the background.