I saw a design that inspired me to mess around in GIMP tonight.
Really rather simple to create.



Randomizing the value-saturation map:

Very cool result BK; I've seen something similar before but for the life of me, I couldn't remember where. Then I had a brain fart and opened Filter Factory Convertor (User Filter) and found the Radial Mosaic preset which I used on a familiar flower image that I've used more then once here already.

Interesting... I never thought of trying that on a picture.





And the original picture:

The first time I was introduced to the color wheel was in Jr. High School and everyone had to make one. Some really creative person made theirs out of flame shapes. The Complementary colors were on top of their respective complements only using a smaller version of the flame shape. I'll let your imagination render that one! One of the coolest things I have ever seen.

Don't laugh too hard. Something like this.

That would be neat to see.

I much more prefer color wheels over all other color tools.

I prefer color wheels as well.

These are two color wheels I made about 2 years ago when I was first playing with GIMP. The colors are the three primaries and three secondaries, at about 70% saturation so the colors aren't really intense. I chose that level so the combinations wouldn't be over saturated.

This is the colors in additive mode on a black background (digital painting):


Here the colors are in subtract mode on a white background to simulate the mixing of pigments on a canvas (traditional painting):


It also was an interesting exercise to learn about layer opacity and the layer modes.

Very interesting and helpful. I was fooling around with mixing colored layers just a couple of days ago. Thanks.

Is this a script, gimc filter, or just a series of filters?

Just two standard filters: pixelize (Filters>Blur>Pixelize...) and map to polar coordinates (Filters>Distorts>Polar Coordinates...).

For the flower, I first mapped from polar to Cartesian, then pixelized and mapped back to polar coordinates.

Wow! I feel so friggen retarded right now..... Thanks.