Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to:



This is a complete rewrite of Slinky:

• Does sine, square, and triangle waves
• Allows asymmetrical waves
• Like slinky, supports the rendering of two distinct paths
• Produces much cleaner paths with real Bezier curves (the more adventurous can even run it recursively on one of its outputs)
• As a consequence, runs much faster than its predecessor, those used to brew some coffee while it ran will have to convert to instant coffee.

The things it won't do like Slinky:

• allow arbitrary phase (but it support sine/cosine on two sides)
• allow completely arbitrary end (it always adjusts to have an integer number of periods over the strokes).
• take ages to produce a very complex path

As usual, it requires Python support, and appears in the right click menus on paths in the Paths dialog ("Decorate/Periodic wave/")

You'll find it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-p ... s/scripts/

It's not documented yet, but I'm sure you'll figure it out. Have fun.

PS: the line above is the combination of a triangle wave and a sine one of opposite phase.

Muahahahaha! Thanks, ofnuts! Keep your boat and oars nearby, though.

ofnuts, looks like a lot of fun

thanks ofnuts...... I will try to find it in Gimp tomorrow....

Installed but I can't seem to locate it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Quite cool, Ofnuts! I'm going to play with the settings more but here's my contribution. One of these days I hope to remember to set plug-ins to be executable before I restart gimp.

Usually is very easy found where the menu of a python or scheme script : is written in one of the last lines of the script

But Ofnuts used some different method : apparently the script should be in <Vectors>/Decorate/... but i don't know of a menu called "Vectors"...Maybe that correspond to the contextual menu of the path tool ?

Vectors is right click on Path in Paths dialog menu.

Aaahh...so my guess was right !!
(except that i wrote path tool instead then path dialog)

Hehehehe, keep the boat and oars ready, ofnuts...

I need to be a bit more precise to get those gears to mesh properly. These were fun to make. I had no idea that the inner teeth on the blue O would go a different direction. Each animation is only 4 layers.



To make your gears turn clockwise, put layers in this order:
SinA
CosA
SinB
CosB

Counterclockwise
CosB
SinB
CosA
SinA

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O: Sweet!

@willy: nice, but where is the server room?

@many: didn't I say, in my original post: "appears in the right click menus on paths in the Paths dialog ("Decorate/Periodic wave/")" ?

@O: the stroke for the inside is oriented the other way, you can change the orientation of either the inside or the outside stroke with my "reverse-strokes" script (at the same place as path-waves).

Thanks! I'll play with that. I kind of like the inside going a different way though. Makes people crazier, yanno.

very cool "O"........

using the same tattoo design I've worked on before I added a block outline. this is a very nice plugin!

"O": It wouldn't be nearly as interesting if they both were going in the same direction.
Like it!

Makes me think of some extraterrestrial marine creature

Thx for the appreciation.

Cecelia, that looks like it could be some kind of jewelry. Going to give that a try.