Hello there,
Another day, another filter
I've added a new filter
Arrays & tiles/Ascii art in the G'MIC plug-in for GIMP. This is a first version, so there are probably lot of amelioration to do, but this gives already interesting results. Note that you will probably need the latest version
1.5.8.5 of the plug-in to make it working flawlessly.
Anyway, if someone can test with an older version, please tell me how it behaves
The interesting thing is that you can choose the 'charset' used for the analysis, so you can customize your rendering a little bit.
Some examples follow. First, the filter as you can get it after a filter update (as always, press the 'Update filters' button) :
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gmic_asciiart0.png [ 143.97 KiB | Viewed 10214 times ]
Then, an example of 'standard' rendering, with the usual ASCII charset. Note that the letters can be optionally colorized with colors from your input image
(done with the 'shape average' blending mode that Lyle uses a lot if I remember well
).
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gmic_asciiart1.png [ 45.77 KiB | Viewed 10214 times ]
Now, if you choose a custom charset, you can render things like this, where the letters used for the rendering are actually the letters of the people names.
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gmic_asciiart5.png [ 473.18 KiB | Viewed 10214 times ]
(the left image has been colorized, but not the right one).
Well that's it for now, let me know if you have some experiments or additional suggestions for this filter.
Cheers,
David.