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/


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Ken wrote:

>This is a direct link to the page that describes it and the associated
>screen shots - http://tigert.gimp.org/gimp/ifs-compose/

Thanks for this one Ken, I never realy figured out IFS-compose. This helps a 
lot.


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Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to play.

Mick


Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>  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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Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> 
> Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to play.
> 
> Mick

I haven't tried the windows version or any version for that matter. I
have heard that there are many unresolved problems with the windows
version of GIMP and have hesitated downloading buggy software. How
has it performed for you and are you satisfied with its performance ?

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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:54:39 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>I haven't tried the windows version or any version for that matter. I
>have heard that there are many unresolved problems with the windows
>version of GIMP and have hesitated downloading buggy software. How
>has it performed for you and are you satisfied with its performance ?

Every software is buggy. It is merely a matter of time until a bug
manifests itself and the a matter of self-respect on behalf of the
program maker(s) to disclose that information to the public.

As one of Murphy's laws says, "Documented bugs will always be
suprassed in number by undocumented ones which, by definition, are
infinitely many."

:)


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Could you post where you got your Windows version of Gimp?
Thanks

Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> 
> Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to play.
> 
> Mick
>

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Peter Popov wrote:

> Every software is buggy. It is merely a matter of time until a bug
> manifests itself and the a matter of self-respect on behalf of the
> program maker(s) to disclose that information to the public.

There are degrees of buginess that I can tolerate. I have heard that
the windows version of GIMP is impressively buggy. I welcome any
information that would dispell that.

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I have been playing with GIMP for Win95.  Frankly, I love it.  So far, I
have experienced fewer GPF's with GIMP than with any piece of MS software.
It has at times terminated itself, but it has never effected any thing else,
and it's not often enough to annoy me.

Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> >
> > Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to
play.
> >
> > Mick
>
> I haven't tried the windows version or any version for that matter. I
> have heard that there are many unresolved problems with the windows
> version of GIMP and have hesitated downloading buggy software. How
> has it performed for you and are you satisfied with its performance ?
>
> --
> 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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"mr.art" wrote:

> Could you post where you got your Windows version of Gimp?
> Thanks
>
> Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> >
> > Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to play.
> >
> > Mick
> >

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/


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Ken wrote in message <383B2DA9.F763F2DA@pacbell.net>...
>There are degrees of buginess that I can tolerate. I have heard that
>the windows version of GIMP is impressively buggy. I welcome any
>information that would dispell that.


The only bugs I've found are:
  If you minimize the main GIMP window, you get a message saying "assert
failed".  You can ignore this bug.
  Sometimes you get messages about functions being called reentrantly.  You
can usually ignore this bug, but sometimes it causes the GIMP to crash.
I've only had it occur when working with images bigger than 1200x3600.

Mark

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The only problem I've encountered so far is that it won't support my wacom
pen, I have to use a mouse!

Mick
Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> >
> > Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to
play.
> >
> > Mick
>
> I haven't tried the windows version or any version for that matter. I
> have heard that there are many unresolved problems with the windows
> version of GIMP and have hesitated downloading buggy software. How
> has it performed for you and are you satisfied with its performance ?
>
> --
> 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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Ken wrote:

>There are degrees of buginess that I can tolerate. I have heard that
>the windows version of GIMP is impressively buggy. I welcome any
>information that would dispell that.

I have it running under NT with almost no problems, a few filters (gfig) and 
scripts don't work. But the system never crashes, just kill the filter that 
gives the problem.
Tried to install it on my machine (dell/win95) at work. It was unusable, a 
big mess. I don't know why, think it's something with the graphics card.


Ingo

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The last version I tried (forget the number, dated around September I
believe) under Win95b (OSR2) was pathetic about opening image files of
certain types and the ATI graphics card had troubles no doubt too.  Scripts
for filters were bad 10 to 20 % of the time. And though many times it
carried on through without a crash other times I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del out.
This has kept me from trying it again (third time last), as good a program
as it was. Filters are inherently applied slowly btw.

Bob

Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
> Peter Popov wrote:
>
> > Every software is buggy. It is merely a matter of time until a bug
> > manifests itself and the a matter of self-respect on behalf of the
> > program maker(s) to disclose that information to the public.
>
> There are degrees of buginess that I can tolerate. I have heard that
> the windows version of GIMP is impressively buggy. I welcome any
> information that would dispell that.
>
> --
> 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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thanks

"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
> 

> http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/
> 
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> But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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From 2 sources I got the impression that with certain programming languages
(C?, or a different formal language), when used properly, programs can be
produced that can be proved to be bug-less.
1. If I understood correctly what was written about the work of Gödel in the
Sci. Am. of severals months back.
2. Work done by my excellent countryman Edsger Dijkstra, who now works in
the USA (http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/is2000/hall_of_fame/dijkstra.htm
not on this subject, this link). I get the impression that things have
progressed since he gave his evaluation of programming languages.
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> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:54:39 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> Every software is buggy.

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Are you sure, and was that recently?

The guy porting it put in support a while back for the standard pen API on
Windows. My Aiptek works fine. You might need to read the readme and give it
an option or something.


Mick Hazelgrove wrote:

> The only problem I've encountered so far is that it won't support my wacom
> pen, I have to use a mouse!
>
> Mick
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:383B1B2F.E83C2445@pacbell.net...
> >
> >
> > Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
> > >
> > > Just discovered this in my windows version of gimp... I shall have to
> play.
> > >
> > > Mick
> >
> > I haven't tried the windows version or any version for that matter. I
> > have heard that there are many unresolved problems with the windows
> > version of GIMP and have hesitated downloading buggy software. How
> > has it performed for you and are you satisfied with its performance ?
> >
> > --
> > Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> > http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.htmlhttp://www.povray.org/links/

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