For those who wish to try this script

it is located at Image>/File/Create/Patterns/Gas giant Planet

The script works on RGB or GRAY images, without an alpha channel

It works by stacking ellipses, the number of ellipses being equal to the number of pixels in the image height

The script utilises a single (the left most) vertical column of pixels in the open image

The 0 to 90 setting of the Polar tilt was intended to be the degree of tilt, but the results don’t quite match up to the intention

A small pixel height image combined with a low Polar tilt will give distorted results. An image 750 pixels high breaks down if the Polar tilt is set to less than 12. Larger image heights allow smaller Polar tilts to be set

It takes up to 20 seconds to run on an image 800 pixels high

I left the last two steps open as an option for the user

Steve

I Like your planets a lot, Steve!
Your script seems so nice creating planets, but I don't understand correctly your steps. You say no alpha channel but your second planet has. Please, Could you explain your method step by step if you have enough time? Thanks Steve for sharing your script.

Hello Issabella and thanks, sorry my explanation and photos were confusing, my bad

There has to be an image open for the script to run on, this image can be a RGB image, but not a RGB that itself has an alpha channel. The script can also run on a GRAYscale image but not on a GRAYscale that itself has an alpha channel.

The image produced by the script always has an alpha channel, it is then up to the user to create the background.

If you upload the images below and run the script on them you will see what I mean

Steve

awesome script! Thanks!

As an alternative to your script.
1) Select an area of 1pixel wide x any_height.
2) Copy that into clipboard.
3) Open a new image and fill this layer with the copied content (by dragging and dropping the clipboard from Pattern's window).
4) Map Object-> Sphere (what's nice if you get some lighting and preview of whatever rotation you're doing.


And if you select area of 1 any_width x 1 pixel height.
you'll get something like this

Great effect, I love all things planets, thanx. Could you recommend an on-line place I can learn about stuff like greyscale, RGB and alpha, I'm very new to all this, please?

You are right Steve! Nice planets using your script. Thank you so much for your help. I'll practise more tomorrow.

images, will definitely be spending time with the map to sphere and giving your ideas a try

Nice one RJKD

I tend to get most of my info from this gimp document

http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/

once there try

6.4 rgb image
6.5 grayscale image
6.6 indexed image

image

Great fun and script! Thanks Steve.

Unfortunately, there must be an issue with copying and pasting an image into GIMP. I did that with an image I wanted to use, removed the alpha channel, ran the script with default settings, and it just made a solid black circle.

Love the colours Dalia


If after copy/paste and removal of alpha channel the extreme vertical left hand column of pixels on the image the script is to run on is black, then you would get the result below

Am trying other options but other than above have not been able to replicate your problem

I found the image. Maybe that will help.

Yep, it looks like a thin pencil line black outline. I thought the image preview was doing that, but it's there. I'll crop it out and try again.

Ah yes, this image does give a black circle. If you zoom in and look at the extreme left hand side you can see the vertical edge of the image is black.

Sorry but this script won’t do what you want, it isn’t designed to map images to a sphere. The script only takes a 1 pixel wide full height column to construct an image. To see what’s happening crop the image in half vertically and run it.

You went all out Wallace! Smiled at each one and in awe at your quick and great work.