Though you can play tricks in GIMPressionist, if you want any resemblance of order, you can only stay on the grid and that's why it's not the same as packed. Below's another example.

figured it out!!!!

You're not alone Cecilia.

EDIT: Sorry, I quoted you too soon! I didn't look at your last post.

I didn't think I would figure it out THIS fast...must be a fluke

I just had to find a good size for the ball depending on the res of the original pic and then test the right stroke density (in placement tab). click "evenly distributed" for the obvious reason.

How about some toroidal objects:


New version of the script, with some new shapes and a more friendly camera location.

Kevin


Edit: Removed the version of the script from this post - it's been superseded.

Now that's cool too Kevin.

You've got more brains than I have. I couldn't figure it out on my own.

GOT IT!

Definitely like the Draw Samples option too Kevin; does this inside GIMP itself so those without POVRay can still appreciate this Script-fu. Also like the new camera angle.

Where exactly does the gimp_test.pov file get saved?

Never mind found it!

This is one cool script Kevin.







This is really quite addicting.
Without povray this time.

the "trick" is to change only ONE thing at a time and see how it changes. (I majored in science in grad school. Comes in handy at times like this)

Today's developments include some more shapes (suggestions welcome), and altering the z-position based on sample brightness. I've also made the output file choosing more friendly(?)

Kevin


Edit: Removed the version of the script from this post - it's been superseded.

Best script.
Can not keep up with the collection (and test) new version ...

Now that's way too cool Kevin. Might want to share this one at the Registry. It's beyond worthy for sure. Thanks again.

Definitely way too cool Kevin. One question though; how do you get povray to angle the result as you show in your example? Call me clueless when it comes to povray. lol

Never mind; figured it out. I also used the built in finish library and included the POVray file. Maybe could add this feature to your list, but then again, maybe KISS should be considered too. lol

Again, thanks Kevin.

edit: Had forgotten that I modified glass.inc (added F_Glass11 and F_Glass12 entries for finish so I attached that file here too.

Finally for today, one small tweak - I rotated the hex-prisms so that they interlock


I think I should make the prisms taller so there aren't any gaps.

I'll add in glass.inc, textures.inc, woods.inc and metals.inc in tomorrow's iteration because that's easy, and I'll try changing the size based on brightness.

I'm not convinced it's ready for the registry just yet.

Kevin


Edit: Removed the version of the script from this post - it's been superseded.

That is cool Kevin. Still, I think the folks that visit the Registry would more then appreciate this. I actually believe it's too good for even the Registry; maybe Sourceforge like Ofnuts does with his stuff and a link at the Registry.

Hey Kevin; if an object with small radius is chosen (i.e, you want more objects), the Script-fu will crash. Not sure of the issue. I'm going to PM you more details and maybe you can figure either this is a limit with GIMP or something else.

I'll have a look at that. I've a feeling that I'm caught between a rock and a hard place here: writing each object to the file as they are generated was occasionally giving a script-fu error (something I also saw with the duplicate script checker), so here I've currently stuffed all the object definitions into a string and written it once - which looks like it's causing a different problem. I'll try a compromise, but I think I hear the Python calling...

Kevin

Edit: Trying to debug this, I threw in a gimp-message call into the loop that gets the samples - and it doesn't crash there any more: , however it now sometimes fails with "Error: /: argument 1 must be: number "