no thanks

NO

Apart from the feature itself, it raises some questions about the choice for the crowfunding :

- The feature already seems to work reasonably. The author says it is a just hack that needs to be reworked, and this will take time to polish.
But if he has no time, why not just sharing the actual code he has already done, maybe someone else will have the time to do the necessary cleanup.
- How did he determined the amount of money he needs to finalize the work ? Looks a bit like a random value to me !

I'm quite interested by the result of this crowfunding by the way. Maybe this way of financing open source projects is better than having a 'Donate' button
on the project webpage

There was a time when I might have found this useful but not necessary. As in your 3D example, the symmetry wold have to be distorted afterwards. It doesn't take a lot of time to duplicate a layer and flip it though. I don't think this is worth the work or the money to be honest, unless there is something I'm missing.

But you're implying there is a "management group" of core developers, which isn't the case. There are a collection of individuals, all contributing to an unmanaged greater whole. (That lack of project management is a whole other subject for discussion)

In this case, one solo developer, who just happens to have contributed to GIMP in the past, will work on his idea for a feature in the hope that it will be incorporated into the GIMP core. He has not been pointed to this task by anyone other than himself.

Personally I think it's the wrong task to be working on and it's a distraction from the huge amount of work remaining to get 2.10 ready.

Obviously as a photography user of GIMP, I think painting tools are less important than high bit depth and non destructive editing and that illustrates one of the problems, in that GIMP is trying to be all things to all men (again a separate subject for discussion).

Kevin

I would rather have a way to paint that wraps across borders so that creating seamless textures would be child's play. Include cloning brush in this mix too. Might be worth a crowd funding project.

Hello.
Here is an example in Krita from Ramón Miranda about how "MultiBrush" feature can be useful for symmetrical painting:


In Krita you not only can use mirror mode, you can use a brush number greater than two, and is very fun to play with it

what mean's "GIMP"? - GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMP was'nt and is'nt a painting software, there are program's out there they do a better job for this
i see no need to inflate the program code with that, could be a plugin but not more
keep it small - keep it simple

Mirror painting is a needed tool, but not a must. Some abstract artist seems like it...
But I agree Gimp need better brush engine, brush in 2.8 is so slow so I switch back to 2.6.
And Gimp 2.10 is still one century to be released...

And if you notice, it seems GimP developer not really working together with artists (which the feature made for).

Krita, for example has David Revoy and Ramon Miranda that working together with the developer, but not Gimp... And Gimp team ignored GimPainter too...

I totally agree and I don't agree that there is software more capable for painting. The problem with such software is that it tries too hard to emulate traditional media instead of taking advantage of the strengths of digital. If I want to do a watercolour, I will use watercolours not oils or acrylics, so why should I use digital for such. Gimp and PS are both incredible digital painting tools.

No,
a generally speed improvement of GIMP is needed
non-destructive editing is needed
adjustment layers are needed

for that i would give some money but not for symmetry painting (duplicate and flip the layer and it's done)
nothing is so boring like symmetry

Great, i hope the crowdfunding will go well, symmetry is a good feature to have in any image manipulation and painting software.
There have been occurances in my textures work in which a "live" symmetry would have speed up the process nicely.

Fortunately with G'MIC current "Symmetrise" function and its customisable symmetry center and orientation, even if it's not real time unfortunately, it still makes things a lot better and faster than before in which you had to mirror in a rather clunky way.

Good luck with the crowdfunding

i would never use it. and i use my gimp to paint with. doesn't take very long to copy a layer and just flip it. just saying...

I agree... too many things I would want more than that. I would like to have the what is supposed to be our warp tool but the superior one in photoshop. The name of the tool is Liquify and that is what would be first on my wish list.

Never tried that one?: http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7825&start=0