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.

any updates on this kind of thing??

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

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

Very cool!

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

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

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

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

My result:



Original Image:

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.

Very cool David and Wallace.

Thanks 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.

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

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.

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

Graechan, you are welcome!