SineDots revisited

[rich2005]

I know some of you peeps like geometric patterns, I do.

A question came up yesterday, a very nice geometric graphic. How-to-do-it. Dead easy, trivial, in say FlamePainter.
But I remembered the old PS plugin SineDots now version 2 as of 2001 - shows my age up.
http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/photoshop/sinedots2.php

Using linux (should be easier in Windows)
I know this works in XnView + shellout but recently I found that pspi was more-or-less (a little less than more) working again with PCLOS 32 bit + Gimp 2.8.6 + wine 1.4.1 and although the colour picker does not work here with pspi, still able to make some nice geometric shapes with a bit of forethought and effort.

This is sinedotsII in action. Everything is done in white on a black canvas.


I love those dial controls, must be the engineer coming out.

Now that we have layer groups in gimp 2.8, new possiblilities.
make a layer group + a sub layer, resize smaller than the canvas, apply sinedots
color-to-alpha to remove the black
duplicate the layer and apply a gradient
change the layer mode to one of the difference/subtract.. group.
do not be afraid of moving/rotating/scaling the layer.

after a couple of renders looks like this.


Ok, it is hard work, but Gimp was never easy. Just throwing a few what-ifs about.

edit: maybe ofnuts could knock-up an equivalent in python.

[akky]

any updates on this kind of thing??

[akky]

I just read somewhere that there is no mac version and probably will never be one

[David Wood]

That looks really nice, and has more control than Flame does. Downloading now.

[Wallace]

Very cool!

[akky]

I'm wondering if it works on the Mac version of GIMP

[Marcello]

my test ; thanks Rich2005 and Pauline
Sinedot II vers 1. 03 windows pspi

[Marcello]

Sinedots reminds me an old small program CHAOSCOPE
here is an output

[Wallace]

Cool PS plugin. Here's what I created using it.

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[David Wood]

My result:

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[Wallace]

My result:

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Seems as though this plugin can be very versatile.
I haven't even thought about making flames with it, but for the look of your image it worked out very nicely for you.

[molly]

Very cool David and Wallace.

[Wallace]

Very cool David and Wallace.

Thanks Molly.

[molly]

I guess you have to have windows to use that. I don't do that thing you have to have to convert photoshop plug-ins to gimp. I have always wanted to do that ribbon effect though.

[Graechan]

I found Sinedots easier to control than Sinedots2, but maybe I need practice and patience

Molly photoshop plugins are Win only, as is pspi

[Marcello]

in Sinedot2 there is a preset file( .cfg files) with a lot of interesting drawings already done.
1.open button and choose the subfolder
2.click the triangle over the button


if you dont have it you can find at
http://www.dizteq.com/sinedots2.htm

[lylejk]

Sindot's cool, but I still like Flame painter more. Also, for this one, I did get some help from Graechan's Plastic or Glass Script-fu.

[Graechan]

in Sinedot2 there is a preset file( .cfg files) with a lot of interesting drawings already done.
1.open button and choose the subfolder
2.click the triangle over the button


if you dont have it you can find at
http://www.dizteq.com/sinedots2.htm

Thank you Marcello now I see the possibilities of Sinedot2

[Marcello]

lyleik, are you using the FlamePainter free version on line?

[Marcello]

Graechan, you are welcome!