For the Mandelbulb, I look at the gradients and input Mandelbulb_x (x being the number of the gradient) in place of the word Mandel itself.


Does that make sense?

That's what I did, but didn't see much of a difference in colours. Maybe I had too small number in the colour areas setting, will test more.

I think it depends on the gradient being used as well as the photo.

Back home (end of vacations).
Did a couple of tests:
1-using Mandelbulb-225
2-using Mandelbulb-231
Results are visibly different.
All other parameters left to default.


Filter used:

BTW:
This is the output leaving all defaults (that is: Mandel, the filter will select the colours from tha gradients having Mandel string in the name).

Dinasset,

is this supposed to happen when calling up MultiColouredParticles?



I downloaded the one you attached to your post. I'm using GIMP 2.10.12 windows 64 bit. I downloaded GIMP from gimp.org.

Not at all.
But I'm using Samj's 2.10.12 64bits.
Maybe conflict with the "particle-deposition" exe filter used?
This is the one I have and use:

I tried using MultiColouredParticles and the same thing happened. The particle desposition filter works... just not on an image.

Particle Desposition:

Particle Deposition and MultiColouredParticles works okay for me.
After removing gimpfu.py & gimpfu3.py (this was part of Arakne's move-along-path plug-in) I don't get python pop-up when launching gimp, but I still get it when using MultiColouredParticles.

I use gimpfu.py for the layer fx. I don't think that's the conflict though. I get the python pop up when using MultiColouredParticles as well. I still can't get Particle Desposition to work work on an image.

I can repeat the problem of an additional python window in Gimp 2.10.12 64bit (from gimp.org) - when the plugin does not start with:

After a small correction - the console window does not appear.
Interesting that this is not a problem in the Portable Samj version.

Thanks MareroQ.
Removed initial empty comment.

dinasset, for what it's worth going forward, on Windows 10 64-bit using python scripts, one only needs to add #!/usr/bin/env python as the first line.

Neither the ' ' ' comments ' ' ' below that line nor the original initialization string "#!/usr/bin/env python" below the comments need to be deleted for the plugin to work.

Both filters work. However the Particle Desposition filter still doesn't work on an image, only on a gradient. The Particle Desposition filter itself is extremely slow.