Paint Paths in Steps Plug-in

teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 736

I should stop playing with this.

Nidhogg · **Posted:** Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:26 pm **(#22)**

Me too.

teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 736

That's brilliant Nidhogg :jumpclap

Wallace · **Posted:** Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:54 pm **(#24)**

Excellent work you guys.
:jumpclap

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Nidhogg · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:20 am **(#25)**

teapot wrote:

That's brilliant Nidhogg :jumpclap

Thanks teapot, I was referring to Rolling Stones: Paint it Black.
Like your tic-tac-toe animation too :bigthup

I'm trying to expand the affordance of this awesome plug-in.
It's limited only by our imagination!

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Yes, I agree. I normally do my animations in a video editor/compositor, but this plugin makes animating masks a breeze using paths. I can think of many uses for it, like this for example.

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Nidhogg · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:50 pm **(#27)**

Cool idea racer-x.

This is quite long...hope you don't get bored.

Just kidding, isn't she amazingly fast?

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Yeah, this plugin is too much fun...

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teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 736

A-maze-ing drawing Nidhogg :jumpclap

Nifty driving racer-x :cool

This plugin is so versatile it even works with symmetry painting, e.g. using the mandala option:

teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 736

Another go this time with symmetry paint mirror:

Tried it with a pencil too but as that was only on one side of the mirror I didn't save it.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:02 pm **(#31)**

Posted a couple at GL but decided to contribute here as well.

teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 736

OMG, Nice one :bigthup

Another dabble with symmetry paint:

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

Very nice, OMG and Teapot!

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Teapot, this only traces 1 path at a time, how did you get your results? Did you blend layers together?

teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 736

Thanks Pat.

racer-x wrote:

Teapot, this only traces 1 path at a time, how did you get your results? Did you blend layers together?

Hi Racer-x, as mentioned in the posts on page 3 above, I just turned on gimp's symmetry painting and then run the paint path in steps plugin as normal.

e.g. The path I painted in post #29 is just one circle, and symmetry paint mandala supplies the rest. In post #30 I'm painting half a butterfly with symmetry paint mirror and in post #32 I'm painting one square with symmetry paint mandala. The results come out as I posted no other processing required.

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Oh, OK. I never knew about symmetry painting and never seen it before. Now I understand.

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teapot · **Joined:** Dec 09, 2018 **Posts:** 736

Nice results racer-x.

Not a good example but below I chose 100 frames so I had time to change the symmetry paint settings while the paint path in steps plugin was running. Don't know if that would be of use for anything or not but it's something extra to experiment with.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:27 pm **(#38)**

Another one using symmetry settings.

Tas_mania · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2015 **Posts:** 1461

Using 2 scripts to make automated graphics is a very cool idea. Nice work teapot, racer-x and OMG.

Hey OMG I'm glad you are doing some GIFs :cool

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

Tas_mania, symmetry painting isn't a script. It's built into Gimp. Hit the "/" key and search for "symmetry painting", it'll come right up. Don't feel bad, I didn't know what it was either.