Box Fitting effect

Ronounours · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2011 **Posts:** 1656

Hello there,
I followed a suggestion of Rod, and wrote and added a new G'MIC filter 'Artistic / Box fitting' to render images like in this page : http://www.complexification.net/gallery ... ittingImg/
It looks like this :

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and here is an example of rendering :

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Just refresh your filters and it should appear. Be aware that this filter is quite computationally expensive, so maybe disabling the preview and using a small image may help to bear it ! (it is faster to run than 'Circlism' anyway

).
If you have any cool examples of rendering to show, please post them here, I'm very interested by what you can get !
I have some possible improvements in mind, but not too much time right now. Maybe I'll update the filter someday.

PS : As always, here is the G'MIC source code for this effect : http://pastebin.com/2bDmNUi6

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

David!

Pretty fast actually for me. Here is the original image.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

And one more with a bit more box size difference.

Excellent David.

The Warrior · **Joined:** Jun 02, 2013 **Posts:** 2090

Awesome stuff. Will try it out later.

he4rty · **Joined:** Aug 30, 2012 **Posts:** 2174

Like the effect of these.

samj · **Joined:** May 09, 2012 **Posts:** 914

This filter is interesting and fun

image : http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/4thf ... 706-13.jpg

Gms9810 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:15 pm **(#7)**

That's the Hockney effect, I posted an example of that last year. Having it asa filter makes it a lot easier.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

Gms9810 wrote:

That's the Hockney effect, I posted an example of that last year. Having it asa filter makes it a lot easier.

It is similar but not the same.

If you look close GMS you will notice the squares do not overlap each other as the "Hockney Effect" does.
In the Boxfitter effect the squares are forced to stop growing when they reach another squares border.This is the same effect as Richard Rosenmans Boxfitter filter.

pirate541 · **Joined:** May 27, 2011 **Posts:** 707

Hi
When i tried to update the filters in Gmic,it gave me an error,both in Gimp2.6 and 2.8

i even tried to update plugins on Forge,and it also gave me a error message

Help?

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:18 pm **(#10)**

Just for fun a quick compare of G'MIC Box fitting & Richard Rosenmans Boxfitter (Max size 10 on both).
They both look great!

The option different.
G'MIC Box fitting
Minimal size, Maximal size, Initial density & Transparency

Richard Rosenmans Boxfitter
Boxes (total), Max size, Col var, Color or sample color

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12833

Box fitting + Lylejk's Painting + sorrily extracted plane =

Densely populated city. lol

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:38 pm **(#12)**

Cool idea that looks great, Lyle!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12833

Thanks Odin; just another brain fart idea. Been getting a lot of these lately for some reason, but alas, it will pass and I'll go stupid once again.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:49 pm **(#14)**

I dabbled in the plasma paintbox again.

samj · **Joined:** May 09, 2012 **Posts:** 914

I always have fun with this filter.
A superposition of four layers "box fitting" with the image of Rod.
http://www.gimpchat.com/files/196_Graph ... xample.jpg

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:26 am **(#16)**

Are all new filters included as default in new versions of G'MIC? I'm not on the net so I cannot refresh.

Ronounours · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2011 **Posts:** 1656

No, it would imply I update the binaries of the plug-in each time I add a new filter.

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 07, 2013 6:32 am **(#18)**

I didn't think you updated with every filter but when you do update to a new version do you add these filters. In hindsight it's obvious you do and it was a silly question. :oops:

Ronounours · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2011 **Posts:** 1656

Of course, when I release a new version, all the filters developed between the new version and the previous stable are included by default in the new version.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16164

pirate541 wrote:

Hi
When i tried to update the filters in Gmic,it gave me an error,both in Gimp2.6 and 2.8

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i even tried to update plugins on Forge,and it also gave me a error message

Help?

Update your G'MIC plug-in to 1.5.6.0 You are currently using 1.5.3.0.

Forge? You mean Filter Forge?