The request by someone to create a Maserati-style grill struck my codewriter chord so I started coding a short script to generate an hexagon grid path. One thing led to another and after several boring meetings I had a script that can would render rather varied grids, and then I figured out that I could apply my recent path-to-shape script on the result and this is when my attention span in meetings dropped to zero because with a few clicks I could generate some surprising patterns:



The script is at the usual place.

Enjoy.

Thank you, they look great.
Must be nice to diddle on a job and get paid for it.

How can I download it? I couldn't download it from the link above "usual place".

Try this Carlos, the top one, path to grid.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-pa ... s/scripts/

Thanks, Molly. To avoid confusion: the correct name is path-shaped-grid-0.0.py

Yes I was just too lazy to type it, it was just added 3 hours ago so that had to be the one.

For your info the address is
Filters>Render>Paths>Shape Grid

Excuse me, Molly. I was thinking on my time beginner. When I followed a tutorial, a minimum gap of a name, left me confused.

Just a question, when I download these files, they say could harm my computer. Do they harm computers?

No. Something detects it's executable code, that can harm your computer (if I coded something malevolent (or very buggy...)), and warns you. After that, it becomes a matter of how much you trust the download site and the program author This is Python and open source, so everyone can check the code before executing it.

Ofnuts , I am very impressed with your doodle art and shapes. Is it possible that you make a tutorial on how you made one of the designs. Any one of the designs will do . I can use the path generator in Filters/render/paths and fill grid with random colour fill see inset

But for the life of me I cannot get the shapes filter from the paths menu to work. see inset

My other question is how you make it with one colour. I have used list and gradient . Obviously, the doodles on the first page are not randomly coloured. What am I doing wrong? Gimp 2.6.11 ,Win 7
Thanks wbool63

I didn't test anything with 2.6 (though I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work there). Did you try the path-shape plugin with very simple shapes (draw a simple segment between two points and try t change it to a circle).

Ofnuts , I'll have another play with it later tonight.
Thanks

Most of the patterns above are produced like this:

1) Run the script several times using the same shape, just changing the Partial start/end values
2) Merge the paths obtained in one path
3) Use path-to-shape to create circles (usually, on diameter)
4) Path to selection
5) Bucket fill selection

You can also get interesting results with "circle from radius" but this one is sensitive to the direction of the stroke. The reverse-strokes script in my Sourceforge collection can be used to change the direction. I upgraded it this weekend because its performance wasn't too good when faced with several hundred strokes, so if you have a prior version get the new one.

a couple of nice results, applying multifill...

very nice dinasset

thanks, Molly...

For that one:
- Hexagon grid, from -20 to +120
- Apply "Rectangle/Square from diagonal" (*)
- Select>From path, bucket-fill with blue
- Apply "Circles from diameter" to original grid
- Select>From path, bucket-fill with yellow



(*) New function in path-to-shape-0.5.py, just uploaded to the usual place.

the new version (0.5) does not appear in the menu (after refresh w/o errors) - windows 32bit

Works for me (WinXP, Gimp 2.8.10). Are you looking at the right menu? The script adds a "Shapes" submenu in the right-click menu of the Paths list. Otherwise

1) the file should go in the "plug-ins" directory, not the "scripts" one.
2) check that the extension is indeed .py and not .py.txt (extension can be added during download).
3) if you know how to, check its MD5 hash (you can obtain the MD5 of the file on Sourceforge with the (i) icon, and the MD5 matches the file on my disk).
4) start Gimp with "--verbose" and check for errors in the console window.