...imagining that the author instead of a "fresco" did a mosaic....

Impressive result, Diego.

thanks Lyle, I benefit of your "style"

Hey that’s nice. A supplement on visiting Pompeii.

Rod just posted the official update.
You may download from there the update which:
- you find as "Update Of Mosaic Lyle Style" below the original entry
- it replaces the original one, but once installed in the description it will show up as 1.1
Soon I will remove from this thread the temporary "Special Edition" posted.

I understand that it's a "helper". I just don't get why it's there if plugins already do the actual work. I don't see the point of the the tile helper, that's all.

Beautiful mosaics, Pat and Dinasset. I love them and the soft bright on the little mosaic tiles.
My first result using version 1-1

Not to invent the wheel again. Consider it like a "sub-assembly", like a battery for a car producer.
That .scm performs an interesting function which is useful as a preprocessing step.
What you say can be applied to ANY existing filter either in Gimp or in G'mic: why to use the "blur" function of gimp? a coder can do it by himself, managing each pixel. Why to use G'MIC isophotes? a (good) coder can do it by himself .... and so on.
Why a cook makes use of butter instead of doing it by himself starting from the milk?
The world (including the world of coders) is made not only of totally self-standing finished products, but also by "helpers", which just perform well specific functions. RobA scm is excellent in performing what is needed at a certain step in the overall process; it is released stand-alone because it can be "called" when needed by other filters (or used directly by a Gimp user who likes to implement manually -for instance- the tutorial of Lyle).
Hope to have cleared the point, if not ask some other coder, who may better explain the process.

And these too.

Issabella, exquisite work! Beautiful - love all of them.

I agree, Dalia: excellent images by Issabella!

Thank you so much Dalia and Dinasset. I enjoy this filter a lot and I place some of my photos under this filter and others in my family photo album. I have a good collection in them.

Still playing with it. This is a place in Colorado, US called Bishop's Castle.

Well done and very nice result on that photo, meemaw. I like it a lot.

I am envious of the results achieved in this thread, particularly as I have tried the filter many times but cannot obtain a result that I like. Obviously my inability to choose the 'right' photo to fit the filter best is the problem, given the outcome others have achieved.

But I will keep trying, so here are a couple of passable results from our Japan trip; the hotel entrance and Hiroshima Peace Park original target dome through the peace arch -

oldmangrumpy, I think your results are beautiful.

Did another, did not like the final outcome - I "undid" the last action which was scale and liked the result.

Everyone is doing such a beautiful job! Thank you, Dinasset, for all your hard work on this filter! And to Lyle, who started the "Mosaic Movement".

Who knew I'd love mosaics

Thanks, Issabella!

@ OMG - You did a wonderful job!!!
@ Dalia - Yours looks great!

All I have seen look wonderful!!!

Dalia, your Mary Magdalene is wonderful.
OMG, you may start from thinking at ancient roman mosaics: what they did use as subject is very likely suitable for the filter (as well as classical portraits, of course).