GEGL Starfield - Partially Inspired by David Wood's fireworks guide

[contrast_]

We have a new GEGL starfield filter that I made. It is partially based around David Wood's firework tutorial and the classic Windows XP screensaver.

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/GEGL-Starfield







Also the raw GEGL graph to making the filter is

Code:

color-overlay value=#ffffff

noise-hsv saturation-distance=0.000 value-distance=4  holdness=4.5 seed=4

invert

levels   out-high=4.10 in-high=0.3

gamma value=55

gaussian-blur std-dev-x=1.0 std-dev-y=1.0
crop
softglow

Enjoy!

[contrast_]

Update, Filter now has a zoom motion blur slider!

[David Wood]

Looking good man. My two most used filters when I want to create effects are HSV Noise and Solid Noise so seeing more uses for them is always good.

Maybe add a precompiled version so it's more easily accessible, I've never gotten into coding.

[Pocholo]

There you go!

For GIMP 2.10:
Version for Gimp-2.10.32 Win 64 Bit attached.
Place the file in Gegl plugins in a directory: C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins
If you're missing the plugin-ins folder, create one.

In menu Tools➤ GEGL Operation➤ Starfield

[Pat625]

I am so amazed by what all of you can do! Thank you, many times!

[Jappaloe63]

It works great... thanks

[Rod]

Thanks Pocholo! Wilber ( and GIMP), will always be a star.

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I was just thinking if i would have moved those two larger stars to become Wilbers eyes he would be a constellation.

[PixLab]

Wow @contrast_ your filter is very nice and simplifies the way I do stars BG in just one filter. Thank you very much

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[David Wood]

That picture feels so early 2000s Windows XP-ish I love it

[Pocholo]

Hey Rod! The credit really goes to contrast_ who created the Gegl filter, I just only compiled it for Windows users.

[MareroQ]

For various reasons, the best for me (taking into account Ofnuts' comments) is
Create a starfield plugin.

[PixLab]

That picture feels so early 2000s Windows XP-ish I love it

I would have said "from a sick brain of the ~90s", though
Thanks David for the kind word.

[Rod]

Hey Rod! The credit really goes to contrast_ who created the Gegl filter, I just only compiled it for Windows users.

Yes a big thanks to contrast_ as well.

[PixLab]

.../..(taking into account Ofnuts' comments) .../....

On that note, @contrast_ is possible to limit the stars colors within the Plank's law? To not have green nor pink or other strange colors.
The color range a bit something like below (Ok, the "white" part in the gradient is too big )

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As for an example, Albireo A and B in the Cygnus constellation shows well the difference in temperature (A is ~4000k and B is ~13000k)


Or the Antares system


Stars images are from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albireo#/ ... lbireo.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_star_(astronomy)#/media/File:Antares_System.jpg

On a side note, plumbers got it wrong with their marking on the faucet, colors for hot and cold water should have been the opposite as the whole universe shows us

[contrast_]

no. The filter is based on hsv noise and can only do what hsv noise can do.

[PixLab]

That's OK

[contrast_]

Starfield got an update that makes it work regardless if the background is opaque or not. It works on normal transparent backgrounds.