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DouglasO says:

Thank you flatfield, I finally learned from you the "flip image" trick, which is what is needed to get rid of the evil seam that you'll have otherwise. Check out the chrome droplet I made with your method;

Originally posted 88 months ago. (permalink)
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Flatfield says:

Nice! I like your other circles, too, especially this red one!


Posted 88 months ago. (permalink)

davesbit says:

Thanks Flatfield!
that was fun
(its the FedEx plane flying over)

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DouglasO says:

Flatfield, do you have any guess what the red circle was made from?

(hint look back in my photo stream a few pages and you'll see the object).
Posted 88 months ago. (permalink)

Flatfield says:

Did I find it?
www.flickr.com/photos/dougs/63752102/

Cool inside-out plane, davesbit!

I'm too ashamed to post mine. They're kind of lame.
Posted 88 months ago. (permalink)

DouglasO says:

Flatfield,
You found it.
Posted 88 months ago. (permalink)

Flatfield says:

Okay, I fibbed. Here's one. Lame, as promised!


Posted 88 months ago. (permalink)

DouglasO says:

Flatfield, no it's kind of neat. You just need the right caption for it.

Something like,

"floating warp gate"
or
"sky hook"
Posted 88 months ago. (permalink)

SaZeOd says:

Hello Guys, My small contribution to this topic:




Another one's Here

P.S: I'm kinda junky now, totally addicted to this! Here's another one again: Clic

PPS: It may not be a bad idea to blur the edge of the final circle, since the polar coord deformation makes it very very sharp, and maybe too much "pixeled".
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DouglasO says:

From looking at these pictures, most reading this already know this trick.

To have a square selection centered on a point of a picture do this:

left click, control, shift, (in that exact order) drag for selection box, release left button, and keyboard keys.

One I just made doing this.


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CFBSr says:

Yipe's you've got me hooked. From a 69 Ford Grill with a U of Michigan plate on the front.

Posted 87 months ago. (permalink)

GothCandy says:

Yeah... once you work it, you can't stop... >_<


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ccbarr says:

Hey, those are a lot of fun to make. Thank you for posting the gimp tutorial. Big gimp fan (well open source in general) here. Already made a couple and trying to make some frames to make animations with them :-D
Posted 87 months ago. (permalink)

aartj says:

This is cool. You can even skip the step to flip the image if you toggle the "map from top" button in the two Polar Coords steps. This is what I got (with smoothed edges):

Originally posted 87 months ago. (permalink)
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Loop } says:

haha.. such fun!! :DD

Posted 86 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

Posted 86 months ago. (permalink)

FiveAcres says:

Here's one. Thanks for the Gimp instructions, Flatfield


Posted 86 months ago. (permalink)

quixotickane says:

good tip.
i prefer GIMP and was having problems doing this with the program.
i was wondering why i kept getting white spaces
Posted 86 months ago. (permalink)

jancyclops says:

In The GIMP you don't need to make a square selection. If you follow Flatfield's instructions (apart from that one) and make sure that the "Circle Depth in Percent" parameter is set to 100 (the default) all the way through, you can use a rectangular image. You can use the "Offset Angle" slider to position the picture the way you want it and can even come up with something where the original photo is still recognisable...

This gives a result which I think is surreal rather than abstract.

You can also muck about with the "Circle Depth in Percent" parameter. This one was from a square selection (it would have been elongated otherwise) with "Circle Depth in Percent" set to 50 throughout.

This second image definitely falls within the "abstract" category rather than surreal.
Posted 86 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

I have just completed a script for Amazing circles

Once it's installed you can find it in <Image> -> Filters -> Distorts -> Amazing Circles...
Posted 76 months ago. (permalink)

mavoro says:

Nice script! TX.
Posted 76 months ago. (permalink)

redraven_info says:

Here is another approach:
1) Select Filter->Distort->Polar Coords....
2) Switch checkboxes to 'Map Backwards': off, 'Map from top': off, 'To Polar' off.
3) Select the polar coords again, as in step 1.
4) set the checkboxes to 'Map Backwards' is still off, and 'Map from top': on, 'To Polar' on.

This way you don't have to do the step of flipping the layer vertically.
Posted 76 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

@redraven: Does it give the same results? If so then I can change the script.
Posted 76 months ago. (permalink)

mandus says:

Thanks for the tip:


Posted 76 months ago. (permalink)

jancyclops says:

@tuxcomputers: What redraven_info suggests gives similar results though they might not be exactly the same. It's along the same lines as choosing whether to flip a picture or rotate it through 180º instead.

Phil.
Posted 76 months ago. (permalink)

mikeracing77 says:

Yeah... these things are like popcorn or potato chips,... just,.. can't... stop....
Here's a freighter being loaded up in the clouds lol .. that can't be good for the crane to bend like that.....

Originally posted 76 months ago. (permalink)
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Stupid Dancer says:

This is fun. Thanks, Flatfield!


Posted 76 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

I tried both Amazing circle technique's last night and found there was a very slight difference.

I have updated the script to use the second method that does not require the flipping and so that it checks to see if the image is already a square. The previous script would have a divide by zero error if it was.

The new script is here.
Originally posted 76 months ago. (permalink)
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Vinnl says:

They're really cool :D


Posted 75 months ago. (permalink)

P/\UL [deleted] says:

Me too!

Posted 75 months ago. (permalink)

pigpogm says:

Yay! This is rather too much fun. I've made a few of them, almost all using tuxcomputers' script.


Posted 75 months ago. (permalink)

gromgull says:

Great tip! It really is fun.

Posted 74 months ago. (permalink)

cedricmesnage says:

indeed! :-)




Posted 74 months ago. (permalink)

Bill in STL says:

Thanks, Flatfield. This really is fun, and hard to stop.

and another

and another

Posted 74 months ago. (permalink)

Flavio Pastor says:

My first try, this was (is) a movie theatre marquee



A Sunflower



Thnak you very much for the tip!
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gmlittauer says:

how does one add a pic to this thread? I assume the results in 'circles' depends on the original pic. must it be square?
Posted 74 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

gmlittauer wrote:

how does one add a pic to this thread?

gmlittauer says:

Thanks...like this? pic was my cat in pool house
circle is a little of this & a little of that. must start writing down my fancy moves ;^)

Posted 74 months ago. (permalink)

lilith penguin says:

This is a fantastic script! This is what I manged to create in just a few moments!

Posted 74 months ago. (permalink)

alebedenko says:

Thanks, Flatfield! Great technique!
Posted 74 months ago. (permalink)

carolspears says:

This is really cool. I had no idea that there was so much GIMP going on here at Flickr.

"1a) Copy the square selection, and chose Edit : Paste as New to make this selection into a new image."

<Image>/Layer/Transparency/Add Alpha Channel
or
<Layers>/Add Alpha Channel

should fix the problem with the background color getting into the polar mapping....
Posted 72 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

Seeing this thread reminds me, I need to check that my scripts work in the 2.3 version.
Posted 72 months ago. (permalink)

behindthemoment says:

Yes it does!
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

Yeah I know it is because after I made that comment I went and made it compatible, it wasn't though.

I have also updated the script, I have learnt quite alot about scheme/Script-fu since then and cleaned up the code in all of my scripts to make them more robust. The last update for this script was the 7th August and you can get version 1.4 here.

I have also written up a tutorial on scripting here, it's true, if you want to know a subject better teach it to someone else.
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

nitram rabnud says:

thanks for the script tuxcomputers
just been having a play
I am now having so much fun with those circles :-D
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

jambowl [deleted] says:

And here is one from me.


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jambowl [deleted] says:

And another one:)



Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

Ate My Crayons says:

Fun!


Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

Swobodin says:

Dandelion

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tuxcomputers says:

he he, this Amazing circles script might be my most used script, it was certainly the easiest to write.
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

Ate My Crayons says:

I very much appreciate your contributions.
Angela
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

tuxcomputers says:

I appreciate that such a fantastic program is available at all and am just trying to give something back. I can't write code to save my life but I can understand how programmers think and translate that into "normal" speak.
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

Janeice Bull says:

I tried to do this but it comes out with black around the edges. All of yours look like a ball with nothing around it. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

Janeice Bull says:

Is this right? I wasn't sure, I tried to do what you said at the top of the page.

Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

Matrix Cowboy says:

JMBull, you for got to turn off "to polar" in the first step.... try again.\


Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

kabbisa says:

hey... its a very funny way of working with the pictures!!!

here my two circles:

from:

i got:


and then, from:

i got:


it's really fun!!
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

Janeice Bull says:

How about this one?


Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

Tom Devine says:

A "transformed" fish


Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

Veee Man says:

My first one:


Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

Rantz says:

Thanks for the tute - here's one I made today using your insructions:

marijasmnj says:

I've just seen this discussion...here is mine :)
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/marijasmnj/4244445976/]
Posted 41 months ago. (permalink)

Katie M 459 says:

Some of these are very cool! Thanks for bumping, marijasmnj, and thanks for the technique, Flatfield!

Here's mine. :)
From this pic:


I got three:
1st attempt (using the straight technique):


Second attempt (using a variation where I did the first polar coordinates twice, once with "map from top" on, and once with "map from top" off, then flipped and did the final polar coordinates):


Third attempt (using a variation where, if memory serves, I did polar coordinates with "map from top" on, flipped vertically, did polar coordinates with "map from top" off, flipped vertically again, then did the final polar coordinates):


This is fun! :D
Posted 41 months ago. (permalink)

Ate My Crayons says:

Pink Glass Orb created with standard polar coordinates.


Golden Orb with background and drop shadow.

Posted 41 months ago. (permalink)

flprimus says:

Hi,

Here are a couple that I did earlier today.

catlovanz says:

This is so cool! Here is my first circle. Thanks heaps, I need all the help I can get as I'm new to learning how to use gimp.

Rantz says:

Ate My Crayons says:

6 months since the last amazing circle!!! We can`t have that.


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Karl-Georg B says:

Soon!


Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

Andy Milner says:

second attempt at one... first attempt was ok and is up on my stream, but I prefer the look of this one...

Olemik says:

Awesome technique - love it - thanx for sharing.
Here's my first (well, at least the first I will show in public)

gimpuser says:

thank you for the help! these are so much fun! Its so addicting! :D
here are some of my examples.
hope you like them.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5430080940/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5430080884/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5430081566/#/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5430081662/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5430080920/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5429473407/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5430081520/]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5430080726/ ]
and a planet using a similar technique. (hope its ok to post this here)
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/59282917@N05/5429498643/]
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

Brian A Catnut says:

Brilliant!
Thanks for all the instruction.
I can't seem to open the link for the new script, but once you do a few it's easy to remember the steps.

Just what I needed, something new to help me spend another few hours on this machine playing around.
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mommyscamera says:

I did a few of these months ago with landscape photos but I never thought to use weird objects! Here's my fun object ones I tried today!


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Ate My Crayons says:

Brian,

See if one of these links to the Gimp registry works for you

# Amazing Circles-Darla

# Amazing Circles-Tuxcomputers

If you still have probs, I'll email you the script.
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ozsalvo says:

I have only just found this group. Wow these circles deffinitely are addicitive. I have a couple here that I did today






Would you believe this was the bottom part Eiffel Tower



Not sure if I have done them correctly. Sorry if they are not the correct sizes also
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

Ate My Crayons says:

Good job Ozsalvo. They would look even better if the edges were cleaned up a bit. Since you've just been introduced to this script I wonder if you've had a look at some of the options here

PS Susan - looked at your other circles.. pretty!
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

ozsalvo says:

Thankyou for the comments here and in my photostream 'Ate My Crayons'. I had a look at the link you added there but was unable to install the plugin/script. Not sure if it is my computer or not but it doesn't recognise the program. The circles I did were only by using Flatfield's instructions.
ps. What do you mean by cleaning up the edges?
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newmikey says:

Bumped into this before and tried it again - I am truly amazed....at how addictive this really is!



Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

Brian A Catnut says:

Ate My Crayons ... Thank you those links work fine.

Here's a Chopper Motor created with your Script.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/40705903@N07/5434072123/sizes/s/in/photostream/]

And another one ...

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/40705903@N07/5434072131/sizes/s/in/photostream/]
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Brian A Catnut says:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/40705903@N07/5457047881/sizes/m/in/photostream/]

Ate My Crayons says:

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Lala50 says:

Posted 28 months ago. (permalink)

Brian A Catnut says:

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/40705903@N07/5577001890/sizes/l/in/photostream/]
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Judi FitzPatrick Studio says:

I've recently begun using the GIMP, the first circle I've made with GIMP


Posted 23 months ago. (permalink)

Dave FitzPatrick says:

Nice, Judi. Glad you got up and running with GIMP.
Posted 23 months ago. (permalink)

kierobau says:

Judi, i cant see your circle photo
Posted 23 months ago. (permalink)

nemosdad says:

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No Sharp Shooter says:

is it only me or does it appear to MOVE?
Posted 19 months ago. (permalink)

nemosdad says:

You're not crazy. It's a static image designed to incorporate the illusion of motion.
Trying to start a group here for artists who like to create such illusory images.

Thanks for the comment.
Posted 19 months ago. (permalink)

Brian A Catnut says:

great effect ! please invite me when you form the group
Posted 19 months ago. (permalink)

nemosdad says:

Group is called Moving Experience. It's online here now. Infancy stage.
Thanks for your interest.
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Brian A Catnut says:

cheers, found it
Posted 19 months ago. (permalink)

nemosdad says:

Welcome!
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