Hi there,
I'm happy to announce the release of another version (1.5.6.0) of the G'MIC package

Sources as well as binaries for Linux are already available on the Sourceforge server. Win-32bits version is currently building. If someone is kind enough for building a Win-64bits version of the plug-in (or even the entire package, including the CLI tool!), he is more than welcome
As this version has some interesting new code-specific features (for G'MIC scripts developers), there will be maybe some future filters that will be incompatible with previous stable (1.5.5.2). So, feel free to update your version as soon as possible.

Here is the complete changelog for this version. Hope you will enjoy it.
Thanks again to all the contributors who actively participate in this project. I love you all

New features:

- New command '-bokeh' and associated filter 'Artistic / Bokeh', to create bokeh effect from images (backported to 1.5.5.1+).
- Internal math parser now accepts the expression 'j(dx,_dy,_dz,_dc,_interpolation,_boundary)' which is equivalent (but faster) to 'i(x+dx,y+dy,z+dz,c+dc,interpolation,boundary)'. Expressions starting with '>' and '<' also appear, to make operators 'i(...)' and 'j(...)' returning values from the image being modified instead of the reference image.



- Commands '-deblur_richardsonlucy' and '-deblur_goldmeinel' have been moved from external sources to main trunk. Thanks Jérome for these commands.

Optimizations / Modifications:

- Slight modification in the way the GIMP plug-in manage external filter sources. More flexibility has been introduced to define user's sources.
- Internal math parser has been optimized : commands 'if(..)' and operators '&&' and '||' does not perform unnecessary operations when not needed.
- Native commands '-resize2x' and '-resize3x' have been removed and replaced by custom commands '-scale2x' and '-scale3x'.
- Command '-blend_median' has been recoded from scratch and render way faster than with previous version (backported to 1.5.5.1+).
- Filters from external sources are now embedded in the default install of the plug-in for GIMP. So, people without Internet connexion can have at least the external 200+ filters available with the default install.

Bug fixes:

- 3d rendering bug has been fixed when parallel projection was selected (i.e focale set to 0).

Thanks David!

Win32 binaries are available !

Um I hate to say this but I think you maybe made a mistake in this post:

"Expressions 'u(...)' and 'v(...)' also appear" - do they? u(...) works but only because it means uniform random distribution.

Great release though!

Many thanks David!
downloaded/installed (win-32) immediately....

Not sure if the names still follow the same conventions but a while ago I added stuff to the wiki FAQ about it:

http://sourceforge.net/p/gmic/wiki/FAQ/

If it's wrong I'll update it

I installed - with no problem - this one:
gmic_gimp_1.5.6.0_win32.exe

I almost always download from here - http://gmic.sourceforge.net/gimp.shtml

Thanks, I've updated the original post to correct this.



Well, G'MIC is a quite complete framework with different interfaces, and in your case you are probably only interested by the G'MIC plug-in for GIMP, so you can get the installer 'gmic_gimp_1.5.6.0_win32.exe', as suggested (file 'gmic_gimp_win32.exe' is exactly the same).
If you prefer to unzip the binary, you can take 'gmic_gimp_win32.zip' instead.

David is there a stand alone version of G'MIC available for windows?

Yes, for windows 32bits, you can download the CLI interface too, in archive 'gmic_1.5.6.0_win32.zip'.

Thanks David and thanks Rod!

great news. Can't wait to try it out.

Thank you David.

Thanks David, now i just need to learn some of the commands.

Cool Rod, one of my favorite is actually '-x_pacman' :-)

Can I install a 32bit version on a 64bit version of Gimp as I cannot see a 64bit version lol?

Thanks

I do not believe the 64 bit version has been compiled yet.

Thanks David - Cool command.