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.
