I can tell you the flow but even I have pause as to be able to reproduce this one. lol

Started out usng the Voronoi Stippler (with added patch), then fed that result into G'MIC's Stencil followed by G'MIC's Gradient Norm multiple times to get a template which I used G'MIC's Shape Average for colorization. Did various blends too which I can't remember (well too lazy to recall) to get the contrasted color fills. Click on the image for the hirez. As for the title, do a search on Chuck Close.

that is trippy for sure. It kinda looks like plant cells and that some are dividing.

Oho! When I opened the thread, I was sorta expecting something like:

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Now that one made my day Saul.

Just a variation.

lol

I know; I know. Crazy I am. This one, as the new title suggested, is all aboriginal. Learned a lot of things since Selection Islands Fill first came into being a few years back now. The flow here is as follows, Run G'MIC Stencil, followed by G'MIC's Gradient Norm (bump up the smoothness slider), followed again by G'MIC Stencil (same settings) to create the template with G'MIC's Shape Average for colorization and then blended in a background texture. Maybe can be all done with a new G'MIC preset, but, again, I'm an ideas guy and not a coder. lol

That is amazing lyle

Thanks Zward. Wish I could say I invented the ability to create these, but smarter guys then me came up with the tools. I just blended the results of them in a particular way to get this result.

My jaw is on the floor. I had no idea a bunch of points could turn into such a nice piece of original art work. Absolutely amazing work.

Appreciate the comments/feedback Zward/Sahab. I actually was going to check your website out to see if you released your update yet. It's working flawlessly now and again, thanks for the updated patch. Not sure how aware you are of G'MIC. It's a pretty powerful tool that I use for just about all my edits (other tools besides the artistic ones like sharpening and smoothing for instance). The Stencil preset and Gradient Norm preset definitely can convolve things in ways that still amazes me. Below's the G'MIC Flickr Sahab.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/

I gotta say, this is fantastic. Though I liked the first variation the best. Checked out your flicker too, loved the leprechaun. I really didn't expect this from GIMP, since I'm a recent convert, but this just persuaded me more. thanks.

Used DAP for the bottle cap rendering and G'MIC to give the caps gloss (yeah; cheated; lol). Below is the DAP forum to get an idea what this cool program can do. I did mainly put it in the G'MIC Group to wish my fellow G'MICers a happy St. Patricks day too, but I didn't feel any pause since I still used quite a lot of GIMP/G'MIC enhancements to the result as I inferred earlier.

http://www.mmbforums.com/viewforum.php?f=5

Check out this thread that I started for using DAP to created Object Oriented renditions (still use a lot of GIMP/G'MIC to sell the result):

http://www.mmbforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1364

Great job on this, Lyle. Your results are spectacular.

Thanks Tux; the Voronoi Stippler has so many uses, from the Traveling Salesman Problem, to rendering mosaics. I still wish I could find a way to render Perculator like output, but that one eludes me and I won't buy an iPad just to be able to create them. lol

I am not typically judgmental of people, but I feel compelled to opine that I think this Chuck Close character seems a bit of a jackass

Oh well; have to concur Saul. Jerks don't live long lives since the bitterness will end up killing them Saul. I shall refrain from using his name for now on and will call it a voronoi inspired mosaic and no longer give his name for the inspiration in any future concoction.