GC Gold Star Challenge

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:24 pm **(#1)**

I made this Gold Star from scratch with Gimp and it took me a while to create. It's not perfect, but I feel it turned out pretty good.
Would any of you guys out there know how to create such a star quickly using Gimp, with out all the measuring and guide-lines that I used to make mine?
I guess this could be considered a sort of GC challenge.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very nice Wallace...did you make this in power point?

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:32 pm **(#3)**

molly wrote:

Very nice Wallace...did you make this in power point?

Thanks and no Molly, I used Gimp.

merrak · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:15 pm **(#4)**

Create two pentagons, centered on the same point, and one inside the other. Flip the interior vertically, then connect the vertices.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

To answer the question in opening post, yes, I know, but
not sure this is the answer you want to hear Wallace.

Filters->Render->Gfig->Create Star.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4739

merrak wrote:

Create two pentagons, centered on the same point, and one inside the other. Flip the interior vertically, then connect the vertices.

Thus spoketh the mathematics teacher

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 3:54 pm **(#7)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

To answer the question in opening post, yes, I know, but
not sure this is the answer you want to hear Wallace.

Filters->Render->Gfig->Create Star.

merrak wrote:

Create two pentagons, centered on the same point, and one inside the other. Flip the interior vertically, then connect the vertices.

What, no example image!? :hoh

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Wallace wrote:

K1TesseraEna wrote:

To answer the question in opening post, yes, I know, but
not sure this is the answer you want to hear Wallace.

Filters->Render->Gfig->Create Star.

merrak wrote:

Create two pentagons, centered on the same point, and one inside the other. Flip the interior vertically, then connect the vertices.

What, no example image!? :hoh

Oh geez, man! your star is perfect Wallace, we did not want to post our examples because they would look bad compared to yours :bigthup

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:17 pm **(#9)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Oh geez, man! your star is perfect Wallace, we did not want post our examples because they would look bad compared to yours :bigthup

Thanks K1TesseraEna, but it's suppose to be a 'challenge' and one can't create a beveled 5 point star similar to the one I made for scratch with 'Gfig'. Just creating the basic 5 point with Gfig is not easy to do.

I was hopping that some of us would post their examples and tell us how they created their 5 pointed star with bevel image.

merrak · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:20 pm **(#10)**

Here you go!

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

Wallace wrote:

K1TesseraEna wrote:

Oh geez, man! your star is perfect Wallace, we did not want post our examples because they would look bad compared to yours :bigthup

Thanks K1TesseraEna, but it's suppose to be a 'challenge' and one can't create a beveled 5 point star similar to the one I made for scratch with 'Gfig'. Just creating the basic 5 point with Gfig is not easy to do.

I was hopping that some of us would post their examples and tell us how they created their 5 pointed star with bevel image.

OK, I get it. Although, you mention measurement tools in OP , so I thought it was all about geometry, not the bevel and shiny gold stuff

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

so the question/challenge is how do make a star in Gimp OR how to make a bevelled star in Gimp ??

i would make a star in Inkscape and import it into Gimp, but i guess thats cheating, so i would use the 'Shape Paths' script instead

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:37 pm **(#13)**

merrak wrote:

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Here you go!

That's interesting.
If my star is rotated, bring each point to the top. The line from the left point to the right point will from a relatively straight/horizontal line.
Your example does create the 5 points and pretty quickly too, I think.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:43 pm **(#14)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

OK, I get it. Although, you mention measurement tools in OP , so I thought it was all about geometry, not the bevel and shiny gold stuff

It took me nearly 2 hours to create the final gold star image with Gimp. I thought others might know of some way of creating such a star with Gimp, but faster then the 2+ hours it took me to make a single star.

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:47 pm **(#15)**

Esper wrote:

so the question/challenge is how do make a star in Gimp OR how to make a bevelled star in Gimp ??

i would make a star in Inkscape and import it into Gimp, but i guess thats cheating, so i would use the 'Shape Paths' script instead

[ Image ]

Yes Esper, the 'Shape Paths' script would be a good start, but what about all the other elements that make up a beveled 5 pointed star?

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

creating a 5-point star in Gfig is very easy, imo

just choose 'create star', change sides to 5 and drag out, then use this tool to tweak it

Esper · **Joined:** Jul 17, 2012 **Posts:** 2770

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:13 pm **(#18)**

K1TesseraEna wrote:

creating a 5-point star in Gfig is very easy, imo

just choose 'create star', change sides to 5 and drag out, then use this tool to tweak it

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Yes I see, I haven't used the 'Gfig' all that much, but looks like that would make a good starting point.
Thanks K1TesseraEna for posting this example. :bigthup

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

very nice Esper! How long did it take? For the sake of the challenge, I hope you timed it!

Wallace · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 5:14 pm **(#20)**

Esper wrote:

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Fine example Esper. :coolthup

I spent a lot of time making my star. Now I thinking I may have spent way to much time on it.

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