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10 Aug 2024 17:28:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Gimp - Fractals  
From: Mick Hazelgrove
Date: 23 Nov 1999 17:53:30
Message: <383b1aea@news.povray.org>
Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to play.

Mick


Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:383A0343.207C42B9@pacbell.net...
>
>  I was rummaging around the GIMP home page and came across a reference
> to creating fractal trees with it. There is a new plug-in available
> described as follows:
>
> --------
> FS-Compose is one of the weirdest and most fascinating plugins available
for
> Gimp. It is basically a tool to generate recursive, natural-looking
fractal
> shapes. It is quite hard to understand at first, but once you play with it
> you will start to understand how it works.
> --------
>
>   Looking at the images and kinds of shapes that it can produce it
instantly
> struck my that it might make an excellent tool for making image maps for
> natural looking leaves and foilage as well as other objects. It may also
> be useful for creating organic backgrounds like tree lines and distant
> shrubbery when detail is not needed. Other than that it would probably be
> just damn plain fun to play with.
>
>   This is a direct link to the page that describes it and the associated
> screen shots - http://tigert.gimp.org/gimp/ifs-compose/
>
>
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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