If your cheese looks like this -- do not eat it!

G'MIC Shapeism (form), Rodilius (texture), Gimp 2.8.4, Art of Illusion 3 beta.

I've added some new options to the 'Shapeism' filter in G'MIC. Now you can create custom shapes, with 3 new parameters 'Branches', 'Thickness' and 'Angle'. You can also set the desired minimal spacing between shapes (default is 1 pixel).
Beware that allowing negative spacing will probably make the shapes intersecting, and then the colors you'll get at the end will be less pleasant (each shape color is computed as the average color of the image pixels below).
The preview now displays the selected shape.



And the result :

Again getting fantastically better David. You know you are keeping me from getting good sleep right? lololol

For whatever reason, I like the star shape the best thus far. Amazing the packing ability of this shape. Again, thanks for the update David.

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/2nd5 ... 04-009.jpg

Hey Lyle, I've done a trick so that even with negative spacing, the shapes are filled with the good color (they still keep a one pixel black border).
Maybe this is a better solution to your squeeze proposal. Just let me know

I actually didn't use the squeeze trick with the doggy star render David; just your preset then dupped ran motion blur on the base layer at 235 degs and dupped til solid and merged all the motion blur layers, then created a solid black layer between the top layer and motion blur layer set to overlay to shade the base layer to give the dimension like result. You new method is not only accurate but at least 10 times faster then the original circlism preset so kudos to you. Can't really ask more of you short of GPU or CPU acceleration (again, I asketh for too much; lolol). Thanks again David.

MARILYN by cecilia fx, on Flickr

Made in two layers.
layer 1: Artistic / Shapeism
layer 2: Rodilius and then wild cartoonizer

Left you a message at your Flickr for the image Cecilia.

Love the effects this filter has with graphic boost.
Check out image properties to see how i got this outcome.



XCF attached.

Original image

Clever way to make a quicky tut, Rod.

Great results. I keep looking at the flag and thinking it should be hanging perpendicular to the bottom of the image.

It would be if the horizon for the image was correct.
The image is just rotated ccw.

Sheesh, I figured that much out by myself. I just want the flag to hang down so it looks like the building is really built on a slant like this one.

Cool looking house.
Here we go i froze the building in time (Ice-Anything script-fu) so the flag can not move at all.

I searched for ice-anything script but couldn't find it.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7435

Here is a test that uses the new filter

If the effect is interesting I will make a script.

Image : http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/4thf ... 706-13.jpg

Very nice samj !
I'm currently working on improving the existing filters, maybe some important changes/breaks are likely to happen with the existing commands.
So, I'd suggest you just copy/paste the current code of the '-fitshape' command somewhere on your .gmic file, so you can be sure it will stay there for you. Maybe you can also rename it to '-samj_fitshape' to be sure the name will not be reused afterwards.

The improvements concern :
- Shapes with arbitrary number of channels will be managed, so it will be easier to keep alpha-channels of current shapes (instead of binarizing them as it is done now). Also, we will be able to keep the binary mask of pasted shapes as well.
- Shapeism effect will be more precise, as the shape will be re-generated for each scale instead of being downsized from an initial size.

Wow; cool enhancements it looks like they will be David. Also, like the result you achieved samj; almost can feel the beads as I virtually wipe across my computer screen.

Thank you both
I'll wait for the stable version to test the changes

I'm almost ready in converting existing filters to the use of a new command 'pack_sprites' that does less things than 'fitshape' but allows more flexibility at the end.
Filter 'patterns/pack shape' has been recoded and you can now use more complex shapes (non binary alpha channel) without loosing the shades in the transparency.
I've started working on shapeism too.