GIMP -Plugins

[DagF]

I don't think we have made a list of what plugins we use so i will start.

I have a few plugins but i rearly use any other than resynthesizer. It is a texture synthesis, but it works good for making tilable textures.
I know there is one that folows GIMP, but i find this better.
You select what you want to make tilable, select horisontal and or vertical then start it.
It works inside the same window and i find the result more than ofter to be good.

project link: http://logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer
GIMP registery page: http://registry.gimp.org/node/25219

[Drezil]

many thanks for hinting this out. i never heard of such a technique before!

[DagF]

I just hope you will think of me when Rayne is done with me.
I'm not sure if he aprowes of plugins like this.

It works nice on much of the images from cgtextures but i can not get it working correctly with the onec i have taken forcing me to do it like in 27's tutos.

[Rayne]

It's in photoshop CS5 but it's called "content aware fill". basically you just make a selection, hit delete and pick "content aware" and photoshop replaces the selection with surrounding pattern. It's great when you want to remove a larger detail and retouching it would take hours. Or to fix seams.

[xandaxs]

says it doesnt work on windows?

[DagF]

That one dosent work on windows.
I guess there will become a working one for windows soon.
But there are older versons of it just google it and for windows

[johnnyenglish]

This isn't a gimp plugin but I found this project from 2002

Semi Causal Nonparametric Markov Random Field Texture Synthesis on a Gaussian Pyramid with K Nearest Search

The site has a little C++ app that can be downloaded and built on windows, linux or mac and then run from the command line, the results are quite good.

I started with this teeny image of rust (64x64)

Teeny sample

rust.jpg (11.9 KiB) Viewed 6319 times

and it created me a nice 512x512 texture like this

Generated texture

Using a single blob

Teeny blob

blob.png (712 Bytes) Viewed 6319 times

It can generate something like this

blob_n1_s_t4_c_256x256.png (19.3 KiB) Viewed 6319 times

or with slightly different parameters

blob_n1_s_t5_c_256x256.png (20.35 KiB) Viewed 6319 times

If you like command line tools, you might like this. The cool thing about using command line tools is that you can set up a directory of samples, run the tool overnight and wake up a 100 new textures.

[xandaxs]

Gonna try it!

[Drezil]

the code breaks at linking -.-

somehow he doesnt find the shared libs installed on my system, though im using the Magick++-config-tool -.-

[johnnyenglish]