The script is available there:

http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/

Here for the doc: http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/tools.shtml
And here for the script: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-t ... s/scripts/

As usual, bug reports, comments, and suggestions gladly accepted.

Have fun.

I had to change gimp_histogram parameters to 255, because the plug-in threw errors as 256 not being acceptable.

What Gimp version do you run? My PDB browser (2.6.8) says: End of the intensity measurement range (0 <= end-range <= 256)
. What says yours?

2.6.11

End of the intensity measurement range (0 <= end-range <= 255)

The GIMP gurus changed the range parameter, I believe, in GIMP 2.6.9 ofnuts. Though 0 to 255 is binarily correct, it's been 256 for years, but, they decided an over-site needed correction and it made a lot of folks perturbed to say the least. Just ask RobA. lol

Okay will switch to 255 :-) SourceForge updated with version 0.1

I got an error window running the script on a layer with an image (rgb) with alpha channel
These settings

The error said "9"

I have no idea what that means - lol
But it left the drawing in an undo state and quit.

Neither do I... and I can't reproduce. Which version are you using? 0.0 or 0.1?

0.1

For the record, I performed the same process using Rod's information (using Ubuntu) and did not get any errors. I've run close to 15 attempts, on various layers using alpha channels.

I am using Windows XP 32 bit ofnuts.
Don't know if that helps or not.I still get the same error though.Even on just a new transparent layer.
I wonder if another plug-in or py script is interfering with it?

I do not have very many plug-ins in my plug-in folder anymore (cleaned house).
So it wouldn't be hard to find the culprit by using the process of elimination.

Cheese Error take 1
http://simplysignage.110mb.com/Cheese.wmv

I fell down the rabbit hole and got lost, with only a calculator to find my way out.

I'll let you "do the math" to figure out how I obtained this image from your random ellipses plug-in.

From what Gimp says, the message in the result of a pdb.gimp_message() and there is only one in the script, in catch-all-errors block?. So '9' comes from Python. Does it occur with other images and/or other settings?

No problems with it here.

Love your opals falling out of the sky "0" must be in Australia.....

With different settings i no longer get the "9" error , but the script still quits.
The settings i used this time

What do you mean by "quits"?

Get version 0.2 from Sourceforge (just uploaded) and run in gimp-console. It prints some information (v0.1 also does, but I improved the error catching). Then copy the last dozen of messages here.

When using overlap=no, the script can stop before achieving the requested density if it's too high. It stops after 10 consecutive unsuccessful attempts to find an ellipse that fits somewhere. In practice you can't really achieve more than 30% density without overlap, unless you are extremely lucky.

I changed from v0.1 to v0.2 and it is working fine for me. I can't tell any difference in the versions.