Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Marbled Paper Bounty?
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:13 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: My wife used to use a graphics package under MS-Windows 3.x a decade or two ago, which had been ported from the Mac. The package (name eludes me) understood how things like charcoal, chalk and watercolours were supposed to work (crumbliness, spatter, the way things tend to slide rather than stick as the force goes up (and eventually crush), brush-hair lines in the paint trail, the ability to _twist_ the applicator, that kind of thing). Simply recreating that ability would be a very noble goal and would bring a phalanx of artists aboard GIMP starting the day after it was released, no worries. You might want to have a look at krita which is part of the upcoming KOffice 1.4 release. It is designed specifically to do the types of things you are talking about. It is still under heavy development and is currently in what is probably a beta state. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] artistic GIMP (was: Marbled Paper)
On Friday 17 June 2005 04:22, Hal V Engel wrote: On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:13 pm, Leon Brooks wrote: My wife used to use a graphics package under MS-Windows 3.x a decade or two ago, which had been ported from the Mac. The package (name eludes me) understood how things like charcoal, chalk and watercolours were supposed to work (crumbliness, spatter, the way things tend to slide rather than stick as the force goes up (and eventually crush), brush-hair lines in the paint trail, the ability to _twist_ the applicator, that kind of thing). Simply recreating that ability would be a very noble goal and would bring a phalanx of artists aboard GIMP starting the day after it was released, no worries. You might want to have a look at krita which is part of the upcoming KOffice 1.4 release. It is designed specifically to do the types of things you are talking about. It is still under heavy development and is currently in what is probably a beta state. Thanks for that! The Krita page here... http://www.koffice.org/krita/ ...mentions that Krita (apparently AKA KImageShop) was inspired by Fractal Painter - the program whose name I couldn't remember - which is now known as Corel Painter IX: http://www.corel.com/painterix/home/ It also acknowledges The GIMP for inspiration (yay!) and points to this: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/gimpbrush.html My New Financial Year (here in Oz, anyway) Resolution is to have a look at Krita and see what if any of its technology can be cross-pollinated into The GIMP (perhaps as a plugin to start with). Failing anything useful eventuating by the end of July, please nag me to start mucking around with, what shall I call it? Media is too easily confised with other stuff, so perhaps applicators? Cheers; Leon -- http://cyberknights.com.au/ Modern tools; traditional dedication http://plug.linux.org.au/ Member, Perth Linux User Group http://slpwa.asn.au/Member, Linux Professionals WA http://osia.net.au/ Member, Open Source Industry Australia http://linux.org.au/Member, Linux Australia -- http://cyberknights.com.au/ Modern tools; traditional dedication http://plug.linux.org.au/ Member, Perth Linux User Group http://slpwa.asn.au/Member, Linux Professionals WA http://osia.net.au/ Member, Open Source Industry Australia http://linux.org.au/Member, Linux Australia ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP
This may seem like an oxymoron, given GIMP's heavy defacto relationship with GNOME-flavoured GTK, but is there any GIMP equivalent to OpenOffice's KDE integration (http://kde.openoffice.org/)? The closest I could find was a vague reference to a pre-2.0 KDEified version of The GIMP, apparently called KIMP... http://dot.kde.org/1096230607/1096270511/ ...and this discussion, which is obviously approaching the issue from the KDE end and not the GIMP end of things (IMESHO, starting from the wrong end): http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-develm=92756018422117w=2 I am guessing that a zero overhead (at least for GTK, I'd envision this as a 1:1 mapping using #defines) toolkit mapping layer at the source-code level would make ports for Qt/KDE, Carbon, wxWidgets or whatever considerably easier. Then there'd be only alternative shims to maintain, not a whole raft of debris integrated with The GIMP proper, and toolkit bugs would all be located in very few files. Cheers; Leon -- http://cyberknights.com.au/ Modern tools; traditional dedication http://plug.linux.org.au/ Member, Perth Linux User Group http://slpwa.asn.au/Member, Linux Professionals WA http://osia.net.au/ Member, Open Source Industry Australia http://linux.org.au/Member, Linux Australia ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
