Wooow P&M what a huge progress, you are going FTL with your improvement



Yes please write it as it reminds me the alien ship in The Abyss movie https://d2ycltig8jwwee.cloudfront.net/f ... 9a765b.png https://live.staticflickr.com/7858/4012 ... 88b8_k.jpg

I think I recognize this filter , is it the one from G'MIC >> Rendering >> Popcorn Fractal?

Hi Teapot.
Thanks a lot for Your quick reply.
Your very pretty UFO is what I will take a closer look at (fractal Reptorian with infinite possibilities).
I am interested in Your way of execution (mini-tut/approach).
We still invite everyone to play (no idea is stupid - bad coding at best, so there is no guarantee that we will be able to translate the idea into code).
In Update Ver. 0.7, the last two straight UFOs: Flying Saucer 2 and Arrowhead.

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All good fun, Does not have to be realistic, just in the tradition of old science fiction mags. (Want some inspiration, go to https://archive.org/details/ifmagazine) A 'quickie' using ver 0.7



I can generate errors using gmic 3.1.0 Better with gmic 3.0.2

Spot on Pixlab, it's Popcorn fractal

Here's my steps:

Make a new 1000x1000 layer.

Gmic -> Rendering -> Popcorn fractal
All default settings except:
Density 1.5
Zoom 0.803
Trigonometric Mode Trig-6
Which makes it:
fx_rep_pfrac 50,1.5,0.05,3,0.803,0,50,50,1,1,0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1,2,0,1,0,0

Soften the top and left edges a little, many ways to do this, e.g.
Rectangular select the layer with top left corner in about 50 pixels.
Add a layer mask initialised to the selection.
Select none.
Gaussian blur the layer mask about 10.
Result so far:


Put the Popcorn fractal layer in a new layer group.
Set the layer mode of the group to screen.
Add a new layer and place in the layer group above the Popcorn fractal layer.
Fill with a linear gradient on the diagonal, I used Caribbean blues.
Set the layer mode to HSL colour.

Use 3D Transform tool to tilt the layer group.
Scale the group smaller.
Move the group slightly off the bottom and right of the canvass to hide the bottom and right edges.

If a clear look is wanted, turn the visibility of the gradient layer off.

@Rich2005.
Thanks for paying attention to the different versions of G'mic. I only found 1 bug in Alien 1 - it was fixed in ver.0.8 - if there are others, can You identify which one?
When it will be released (stable) Ver. 3.1.0 we will improve the code.

@Teapot.
Thanks for the tutorial . I'll be experimenting with mask and blur.

Some remarks after very preliminary trials (remove the black color and use Gegl's polar coordinates):
- Popcorn Fractal [Transformational] seems more suitable for adaptation to ships,
- As there are endless variations, I decided that the user would be able to use their own preset.



If anyone finds an interesting parameter setting in G'mic, don't hesitate to post it here.

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Very nice.
Are You suggesting a new tab - Explosion? (this could be the hardest to code ...)

It's tricky, I did a lot of playing around with supernova and zoom motion blur that's not repeatable. Hopefully someone else knows a better way.

That is a good effect.

Several 'shatter' effect methods that are really hands-on, like this one https://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/cre ... ion-effect Not really easy.

Not much of a better way A possible starting point is the gmic crease filter. Only outputs a layer but as a 'made-up' animation.

I don't know if it's worth publishing the new version with this effect :

MareroQ,
Boom! I That's an awesome explosion.

There's also a much smaller explosion - but handmade by Teapot is nicer.

I wonder if it were not possible to make your plug-in translation ready.
You already have this in the script


so what would be necessary to make it translatable with a language file would be to change strings like


to


Furthermore, I would not put that into "gimp20-python" but some other name ("gimp-cosmos-python" maybe), so it's not overwritten with GIMP updates.
Just a thought ...

Thanks Rich. I gave it another try based on that tutorial. I agree it's not easy.


MareroQ Yours is the much harder task in making it generic as mine was bespoke to that image. I wonder if it's worth splitting the item up more before the zoom motion blur so it's not so dense? I used rep_array_random_jumble_by_px in the one above for the far flung pieces.

@Nelo.
I can do that for Ver.1.0

@Teapot.
Here is a small dilemma:
- do you want to recognize what has exploded?
or
- just the overall result of the explosion (tailored to each object)?

Thanks to your suggestions, I added more control options to the FX tab - let the user decide (to some extent - the rest must be tweaked manually).


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Wow MareroQ that was quick

Here's a go with the ships neonised before exploding one and for the second image I had a play with gmic on the result to try and make an old science fiction mags look inspired by rich2005's link in post #73

I added the last scheduled option to FX: Meteorize.
I think I will wait with the release of this version (probably the last one) to the stable G'MIC 3.1. so we are still waiting for your ideas and suggestions.

@Nelo,

I checked if the translation from the * .mo file would work (so far only one tab per test).
It works - but I have doubts about its purposefulness - because the translation requires a bit of effort: a lot of lines, knowledge of Poedit, different division (into lines) of the translation (because the number of letters is different), probably a different file for Windows and Linux (I haven't checked).
Who will feel like it and the time (not to mention a little knowledge of "Poedit")?

Yes, you might be right.
It was just an idea. Would be easy at least for future plug-ins just to write string in a translatable way.
I'll go on translating interesting plug-ins in that way -- helps my husband, who doesn't know any English.

with the colours for me also problem I not know witch is for what chosen I have trey to make one more deep winter Planet, I mean not like the Titan moon or other moons. More like deep Alaska or Siberian in coldest winter moths not under -70° C.