The "Multi-Replicate" script (currently at version 1.07, see here) allows you to duplicate layers and channels in advanced mode. It is properly compatible with the latest releases of GIMP 2.8 and yet backward compatible with the older ones as from GIMP 2.6.10.

You can find the script and a detailed description on how it works at the following page of the GIMP Plugin Registry:
http://registry.gimp.org/node/22383

The script is equipped with several functions for making the repeated duplication of any drawable really effective and powerful, especially when it is a matter of layers. In this regard, you have a set of options aimed to consecutively transform the layer copies relative to one another trough incremental rotations and/or scalings, making it possible to obtain agreeable series of duplicates that range from the simplest to the most elaborated ones.

Other important features are the ability to put the layer copies in a new layer group and the option to arrange the duplicates in the stack either from bottom to top (so that they will progressively show up above each other) or from top to bottom (by displaying below each other).

Hereunder are some examples of duplication achieved with the script.
Go here for the archive containing the files and the settings necessary to reproduce these and all the other examples of duplication shown in my various posts:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6057&start=10#p75782

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Original image	"Multi-Replicate" applied	"Multi-Replicate" re-applied

Original image	"Multi-Replicate" applied

Original image	"Multi-Replicate" applied

Original image	"Multi-Replicate" applied

Original image	"Multi-Replicate" applied

I can't get the results like yours and I had a really long run through before I post.
I always get unexpected outcome. Can you, please, provide the script settings for your 5 example images above?
That would really help. TY in advance, Gino!

Same here. I have tried several times and I don't get much for decent results.

Thanks for your feedbacks.

For each of the examples, the two or three illustrations are just screenshots that have been taken before and after the script execution respectively, whereas they do not actually show that the initial object to duplicate is a layer with a smaller size than the image itself. Maybe that's the reason why you haven't been able to reproduce the same results by simply using the first screenshot from each of the examples.

Regarding the last example, namely the one with the candy, I attach the original file in both XCF and PSD formats (the PSD one too for the fact that the XCF one would work only on GIMP 2.8), containing the white background and the layer depicting the little candy:



When loading the image in GIMP, once you have selected the candy as the active layer, launch the script and in the dialog box leave all the settings at the default, except the following ones:

Number of copies: 27
Displacement in Y direction: -9.00
Starting angle of rotation: 30.00
Incremental angle of rotation: 30.00
Shift rotation center with layer copies: UNCHECKED
Stack duplicates: Below each other

This way, you should be able to obtain the same spyral made of candies that I posted above.

nice one, Gino D !

i tried to replicate the spiral and it worked just great

the script looks a bit overwhelming with all the options, do you think it would be possible to make it a bit more user friendly with little diagrams or something like that ?

it also seems to me, its very similar to the Clone-Layer script, that i used quite a bit in the past, but im not sure if you could replicate every effect you've shown here



i said it once, and i will say it again: your english is very good, dont worry !

thank you for the script !

also it seems this script shrinks underwear to a dangerous level

I decided to equip the script with such a large amount of new options with the main purpose of making it as powerful as possible for reproducing almost every type of result, according also to several suggestions I have received in this regard from some people here and at GPR. But inevitably this choice has affected the graphic interface, which has become slightly redundant as you pointed out.
A great improvement could be achieved by re-writing the script in Python language, which (thanks to the pygtk module) may provide an highly flexible graphic interface, with tabbed panes, advanced widgets, even a preview feature, and so on. At the moment, I am not so skillful in Python yet, but in the future I really hope to become able to implement such a conversion.


The CloneLayer Tool is a nice plug-in that I have only recently discovered, and believe me or not, it never was my intention to recreate something already existing, nor the plug-in in question has been a source of inspiration for me. For what I have seen and I remember, it seems to present some more features than my script and maybe just something less, but terminology and way of working are slightly different, for instance the effect can't be undone via the classical "Undo" command, whereas my script can. For what it's worth and in my defense, I posted my script the first time on the GPR about one year before the author of that plug-in, and I can say that our two filters have been certainly developed independently.

Anyway, thanks for your interesting suggestions.

Good one, Esper.

Gazie Gino great script and very useful !



oh a script to shrinks or even better dramatically increase underwear and breast transparency would be a great success...

Attached is a zip file containing the original XCF images that I used for producing not only the results illustrated as examples in my opening post, but also those, if any, shown in all other posts of mine in this thread.
Each XCF file is placed in a separate subdirectory that also contains two screenshots: one of the illustration itself and one of the dialog box showing the appropriate settings to get the particular sequence of layers related to the specific example.
I hope this will be useful for you to understand even better how the script works.

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@ Graechan: nice example of duplication! You have perfectly interpreted the real scope of my script.

@ PhotoComix: grazie a te per l'apprezzamento.

That's very good of you Gino D. I think your script is great and the documentation for Multi-Replicate at GIMP Plugin Registry is also very well done

in agree with Odinbc, the documentation is very good !

any chance we can have it as a pdf ?

Here's a PDF copy of the Multi-Replicate info page at the Gimp Plugin Registry.

excellent Odinbc !!!

Thank you, Gino! I appreciate your help.

@other guys. I've never said that documentation was poorly written or I don't understand the meaning of script's main functions.
They are, in fact, more simple to understand than, for example, a similar tool in Inkscape - Tiled Clones Tool.

The script just did not produce what I'd expected, then it was producing the same image regardless of settings, on the third attempt it crashed GIMP.
That might have occurred because I gave the script a hard time changing settings back and forth so many times.
That's the only reason I asked Gino about script's exact settings to reproduce the images in the opening post.
As for the script itself, I think Gino has done a great job and I do always appreciate complex software.

well obviously Graechan, they were in such a hurry they even left their cute little bear house shoes on

As some of you might have noticed, I tried to make the documentation at the GIMP Plugin Registry as similar as possible to the layout used on the official GIMP online documentation. I also thought that a script fitted with such an amount of settings of course would have needed to be accompanied by a detailed explanation, so that's the reason why (sorry!) I have been a bit wordy.



Odinbc: thanks a lot for converting it to PDF format. Well done, the file looks perfect.