G'MIC plug-in : New filter 'Artistic / Fractalize'

Ronounours · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2011 **Posts:** 1656

Hello there,

Just a little announcement, I've added a new toy filter in the G'MIC plug-in for GIMP, located at Artistic / Fractalize.
It tries to locally deform a Mandelbrot fractal to make it look like your input image. It is a bit CPU intensive for big images (although it is parallelized) but it sometimes creates quite cool results. Here are some examples of what you can get when using it.

First, the plug-in in action :

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Then, two raw results of the filters :

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and

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So, you can press the 'Update filters' button, and let me know what you think about it

(This filter is a CPU and memory eater, you have been warned!).

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:42 am **(#2)**

Another amazing G'MIC tool. Thank you!

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 7:34 am **(#3)**

Thanks David!
This is my first trial

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Nice job dinasset. Thank you David, they would make great backgrounds for a lot of art.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12775

OK David; where are you stashing the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? lolol

Fantastic result indeed. Maybe future option would allow you to choose a flame of your choice.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Nice!

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:23 pm **(#7)**

I'm in Loooove!

Issabella · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:54 pm **(#8)**

My trial, Thanks to you, I wouldn't have found it. :tyspin

Erisian · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:56 pm **(#9)**

That is amazing Issabella. It's well positioned.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:06 pm **(#10)**

First impression - wow!

Odinbc · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:40 pm **(#11)**

I know the fractal is random; this is an experiment with Detail levels.

spunkygurl80 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:47 pm **(#12)**

Do i need to download the latest version to use this spiffy script?

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12775

Combined a few things including Rodilius. I call the the clash of two Universes.

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/seve ... 306-09.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@N05/13417617723/sizes/o/

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:05 pm **(#14)**

spunkygurl80 wrote:

Do i need to download the latest version to use this spiffy script?

After refreshing Gmic you should see it in Artistic/Fractualize, if not then I suggest you update your Gmic

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

ek22 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:27 pm **(#16)**

Made a black and white background out of gradients in difference mode and applied the fractalize filter, then played with other options like gradient norm and edge detect etc until I found a happy medium. Makes a good desktop background.

spunkygurl80 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:32 pm **(#17)**

I get an error. When I hit the refresh on GMIC'.

Filters update from Internet (partially) failed !
Unable to reach these filters sources :

* http://gmic.sourceforge.net/update1585.gmic*

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16029

David you are a code genius my friend.

sallyanne · **Posted:** Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:59 am **(#19)**

More fun with fractalize

Three of these are PD line art and i did two text. On the last one I also ran 'mosaic' on it.

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Apr 16, 2015 5:23 am **(#20)**

Sally, excellent use, you master one of my preferred G'MIC filters (which is nice and,,,unpredictable!)