Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Trefftzs
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:50, Eric Pierce wrote: > This should be easy, but I just can't think how to do it. > > All I want to create is a radial burst. Sharp black and white lines > evenly spaced emanating from the center. > > Exactly like the old Japanese flag but without the circle in the midd

RE: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Juliet Nimmo
-user] Simple Radial Lines Juliet Nimmo wrote: > Hi all, > I tried using this solution on the windows version of gimp, and it > gave me a "could not render" and a "could not read ps file" error > messages. Does this solution only work in Linux? AFAIK. Gimp req

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Not at all, Eric! I like my script, mostly because I can always write others to perform like tasks. But... I am just AMAZED by the grid + polar_coord trick. I bet we could just create a "GIMP PUZZLE CONTEST" . The most incredible, and yet feasible, way to draw "fnord" in the GIMP wins. (And any

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread pcg
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:00:53PM -0500, Eric Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not after circles. I'm even lines radiating from the center. > Did you see the gif link above? Just like that minus the circle in the > middle. You could create a striped gradient fiurst and then use the gradi

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Thorn
Whoops, sorry, didn't read the picture and I got a different picture in my head of what you wanted. My suggestion won't help, sorry! But I've a new one. Use a series of marks on the edge of the image and just draw lines from the marks (evenly spaced marks, I add) to the center. make sure the center

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Pierce
> Eric Pierce wrote: > >>This should be easy, but I just can't think how to do it. >> >>All I want to create is a radial burst. Sharp black and white lines >>evenly spaced emanating from the center. >> >>Exactly like the old Japanese flag but without the circle in the middle. >>See here: >>http://

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Pierce
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:02, Jeff Trefftzs wrote: > >> 1. Select the Black & White Gradient >> 2. In the Gradient Tool Dialog select: >> 2.1 Custom Gradient >> 2.2 Linear (or bi-linear) >> 2.3 Sawtooth or Triangular repeats >> 3. Click and drag in the image window to get as m

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:48 am, Eric Pierce wrote: > > Not at all, Eric! > > > > I like my script, mostly because I can always write others to > > perform like tasks. > > Where did you learn how to write ps like that? I'd love to learn a > little bit myself. Are there any good websites or

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-14 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Joao S. O. Bueno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:02 PM > To: Juliet Nimmo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines > > Juliet Nimmo wrote: > > Hi all, > > I tried using this solution on the windows version of gimp, and &

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-12 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 21:02, Jeff Trefftzs wrote: > 1. Select the Black & White Gradient > 2. In the Gradient Tool Dialog select: > 2.1 Custom Gradient > 2.2 Linear (or bi-linear) > 2.3 Sawtooth or Triangular repeats > 3. Click and drag in the image window to get as many st

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-10 Thread David Millet
heres an idea for this: you can check out a .gif here: http://www.tellim.com/random/starburst1.gif 1) make a new image significantly larger than your final project needs to be, twice the size to be safe I wanted one that was 500 x 500, so i started with a 1000 x 1000 image 2) fill the backgro

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-08 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:00, Eric Pierce wrote: > > >This should be easy, but I just can't think how to do it. > > > >All I want to create is a radial burst. Sharp black and white lines > >evenly spaced emanating from the center. > > > >Exactly like the old Japanese flag but without the cir

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-06 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Juliet Nimmo wrote: Hi all, I tried using this solution on the windows version of gimp, and it gave me a "could not render" and a "could not read ps file" error messages. Does this solution only work in Linux? AFAIK. Gimp requires the ghostscript "postcript engine" to load Postscript prograns. I

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-06 Thread M Narramore
Would the Perl_fu_bursts plug-in be any use? It's under Filters>Render>Burst. Matt At 06:50 PM 8/5/03 -0500, Eric Pierce wrote: This should be easy, but I just can't think how to do it. All I want to create is a radial burst. Sharp black and white lines evenly spaced emanating from the center.

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-06 Thread Eric Pierce
> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:50, Eric Pierce wrote: >> This should be easy, but I just can't think how to do it. >> >> All I want to create is a radial burst. Sharp black and white lines >> evenly spaced emanating from the center. >> >> Exactly like the old Japanese flag but without the circle in th

[Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-05 Thread Eric Pierce
This should be easy, but I just can't think how to do it. All I want to create is a radial burst. Sharp black and white lines evenly spaced emanating from the center. Exactly like the old Japanese flag but without the circle in the middle. See here: http://www.japanorama.com/images/navy_army_ww2

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-05 Thread Eric Pierce
That's it! Very cool solution. As soon as you mentioned ps I started wondering if Sodipodi (or some other vector dealy) could pull this trick off, but your code is perfect. Manipulable and everything is rendered automatically. Would make for a nice plug-in I imagine. Thanks again! Eric Pierce

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-05 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Could not think of an easy way using the GIMP. Actually, the only "more or less" easy way I could think off is using a graphic turtle I am making in GIMP-Python. Since that would be complicated I made an extra-gimp solution for you. An Postscript Snippet. Just paste the following postscript code i

Re: [Gimp-user] Simple Radial Lines

2003-08-05 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
I was thinking here, albeit requiring a little programing, these ps snippets are really usefull in gimp. Would someone there lke to help me to create a plugin that would do little more than keep these snippets in a .gimp subdir? (Than maybe manage loading them in different colors/transparencies