That is kind of strange how those extra things just appeared, this is mine.

It's the work of BRL on the shape, I guess. I'll have to take a closer look at my svg file. Maybe there's a space somewhere causing this happy accident.

I think I've found what might be causing this.
Some of the paths in this outer ring as well as the inner ring contain space. This might explain how these small diamond shapes are appearing.

That ones really cool Molly, love all the colors you used.

Thanks Wallace, I do like the colors but the closer I got to the end, they seemed to look rough around the edges. I have tried so many different contours that I don't know which ones suit. I added shadows to all 24 layers to see if it makes it more 3-D but I think maybe it darkened it too much.

That gc-shadow works really good, but I found that I have to turn down the blur radius and sometimes the x&y displacement, depending on the image size and colors.

Just completed this one and tried to BRL it.



Looks like BRL took all the colors and squished them all together.



Want to try a weave next...that will take some time.

On your bottom mandala it Looks like you ran the BRL on the entire image.

That's exactly what happened. Going to try the star again and BRL it in stages. Other than for logos can't seem to get it to work on images...have numerous failed attempts to show for it. Thinking of R&R-ing it if this attempt fails as well.

GIMP is addictive enough in itself, but now these mandala image manipulations are increasing the intensity of that feeling - and its terrific! Whatever specific objectives I started out with for this one, they were soon cast aside and I ended up with glass plate style image -which is where where I started off in Gimp Chat some weeks back!

And the last one - another night spent pleasantly Gimping!

@OMG...Very nicely done...have some catching up to do.
Tried again with the star...going to replace the BRL plugin and script today. It still works on logos...keeps crashing on images no matter how many layers. Here is the star and a logo from the emap.



Had to reorder the layers to get it right again. Here's the logo from the star above.

I feel the same way. I'm happy that you don't find this stuff arduous.


Did you run some kind of GMic smoothing on your star?

Interesting outcome when using the mandala as an e-map.

Hi Wallace, have better examples of the logo now that the plugin and script are replaced. Broke something somehow? Tried the map with all three BRL"s and it worked fine and quick as well. Will be trying an image later on. Should work just now because it has worked before.
The broken plugin almost wrecked the work, the distortion was alright , but, the paint and shine really took a beating. Thank goodness for dups!
Used Mighty Details once to enhance the shine...Freaky Details was too much and one round of anisotropic smoothing on the bad layer. Played around with the layers to get the best effect...there it is. By chance will you be making anymore of these images? They're really cool and have learned to use more techniques with them.

You can do an alpha select, after the "anisotropic smoothing", to remove the outside anomalies caused by it.

Thank you for your appreciation Rdbflyboy, but it is Wallace and GIMP that deserve the accolades! And you too because I decided to design my own mass butterfly mandala and I followed your lead, using my previous mandalas and also snowflake images (another Wallace thread) as 'maps' in BRL.

Looks cool OMG, you must have spent a lot of time on it.

Just finished recovering/rebuilding my machine after the virus infection and decided to do just one last mandala (then I must move on to owls!!)

BRL just delivers some amazing results and I never really know what I will eventually end up with. This one is as far from my original target image as it possibly could be!

It looks like a back lit, stained glass window. Nice one OMG.

Well thank you Wallace, now you come to mention it, that is exactly what I was trying to create !