With the help of Voronoi Stippler and Inkscape, I figured out how to pack marbles on top of each other. Of course more then enough GIMP/G'MIC blends involved to consider this an overall GIMP creation.

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/seve ... 306-04.jpg

edit:

Replaced the original lost edit with the attached below.

Edit; also, it looks like the shack recovered the image once again, but just linking this time.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/7706/marblesq.jpg

Oh, I like this, super shiny marbles. I think I lost these... where did you find them?

lol; posted this one at one of my more unseemly (political) sites and told them that I did my best to try to find their marbles, but alas, I could not find them all. lolol

Glad you got the point too ek22.

Beautiful, Lyle. My mom did some glass work onto ceramics and she did a bowl using marbles and your picture reminds me of that.

Thanks O. Glad it helped bring back good memories.

Reminds me of those glass bead things people put in their gardens, made with grout and beads as tiles, comes out looking just like this.

I should have said it all went into a kiln and the marbles were kind of melted and flattened.

Nice effect.

Mostly what i played when i was a kid was marbles.Always had to win those infamous crockies and boulders.They were like gold back then.
Leave it to you to lose someone else's marbles Lyle.

Nicely done though.

Anyone remember the rule "No clearies" ??

lylejk: that looks amazing! very cool effect. but what is "voronoi stippler" when it's at home?

Check this tread out AnMal.

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=613&p=12405&hilit=saliences#p12405

Also do a search on Traveling Salesman here. Gotta run; have to get ready for work.

lylejk: thanks, that explained it . i want to try that too!

Guess I should have scrolled down further; cool stuff ed22. Not sure why the Shack's not showing my render now, but created a new one anyway. lol

Decided to leave out the canvas this time.

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/seve ... 406-03.jpg

Pretty awesome stuff Lyle.

Thanks Rod; toying with Inkscape's layers (very limited and sad I am) and such. Used all the cool filters in Inkscape too, but still, I had to do way too much finally blending in the GIMP.

lylejk: that latest one is lovely - and pink !

I know the ladies like the pink. lol

Thanks for the comments all; not sure why the Shack hosed my first render, but it's gone to the oblivion of cyberspace now I'm afraid since I rarely save any of my renders locally (this is my hobby not career; lol).