Limits to density then with Script-fu. Still, what you have done is darn pretty cool. Thanks again Kevin.

@lylejk

i have for POV ray the same diffidence you have for 3D fractal sw, basically i fear to complex to use or a sort of command line app

I am wrong ? oris possible do something alike without have first to read POV user manuals, guide or tutorials ?

I hate POVray too PC. Download Kevin's scm - works without that horrible program.

not sure if i hate i never used, but i am very diffident
and i hate the idea to have to give console input to a 3d program.

Not necessarily...

I have to check what I've done actually using POVRay, but I have now managed to make a scene file with 17000+ objects.



@Photocomix. POVRay works with what it calls scene description files, which at it's most basic are just a series of object definitions:

"sphere { <0,0,0> 5}" means draw a sphere at 0,0,0 with a radius of 5

Kevin

Brilliant!

This is starting to look like the map I made a while back (with POV as well) starting in gimp, moving through inkscape, then POV render and back to Inkscape for labeling:


-Rob A>

Well I love 3D software but I really don't know why POV ray exists! To be honest, I'd rather buy a lump of clay, make something with it and stick it to my computer screen.

What's cool with POVRay Erisian is it's Ray tracing ability. You can do your work in a 3D app and port it to POVRay to get some cool results. Maybe some 3D apps have a decent Ray Tracing interface, but from what little I've seen with POVRay use from my recent cram session (lol), that's POVRay's main purpose and why it still exists.

Let me know when you are ready to release this new update Kevin.

Here we go then, version 0.2...
2856 hexagonal prisms

I've tried my best to fix the crash when there are lots of samples, but I can't guarantee it wont happen again - it seems that the sample data is being corrupted, just try running it again.

I've changed where it registers in the menu- now my standard "contributed" location. I've also made the "draw samples" option draw hexagons, squares and rotated squares.
Example of purely in-GIMP layer:


Unless anyone has any more requirements/suggestions, I'll leave it at this. (You know I'm going to think of something else in the next 5 minutes )

Kevin

Definitely cool stuff Kevin, but, I have a few questions. First, where's Captain Kirk and also where's the location of VGER. lol

Very nicely done Kevin. Thank you so much.

Well Captain Kirk was recently spotted presenting Have I got News for you and VGER - 1 & 2 are currently a long way from home.


For a process that's basically geometry, it can lead to a surprisingly impressionistic outcome:

Which is this

Sample Radius: 10
Object: cylinder
Packing: tight
Modifier: xy-scale::brightness
Multiplier: 5

Kevin

does this script only work with gimp 2.8?

I'm getting "crash" messages

That's where I'm running it Cecilia; there is an error consol screen that pops up saying it's finished but it hasn't crashed on me since I updated the latest. Though it took a while, I just did an ove 12,000 object file (just a test; not showing) and it worked quite well.

I've not tried it on 2.8, I've only run it in 2.6 but I don't know of any reason it wouldn't work for 2.8.

What are the crash messages you're getting?

Kevin

That scull is just too cool Kevin. lol

Definitely looks like it could be the Elephant Man's (Joseph (John) Merreck) skull.

What the hey; still enjoying your Script-fu Kevin. Did the marble and gloss in GIMP (with help from G'MIC) since I still don't know 3d all that well.

ref: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/941938

I believe I know your issue Cecilia. What you need to do first is, where you want the file to be created, you need to right click and create a new text file but save it as filename.pov (where filename is the name that you want your file to be). I usually do this at the desktop. Then, when you run the Script-fu, you browse to where this file is and click it (use the Script-fu interface to do this). Then run it. If you don't do this, the Script-fu will run, but no file gets saved (well it does get saved, but the file will be named (null) and will be located at your main user directory).