Taprats.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12850

Mentioned this one before but don't believe I or anyone else started a thread about this cool program that creats Islamic tiles. Noticed an update at Sourceforge today and decided to start this thread now. Used the result to create a seamless texture from and commenced to droste (it's what I do; lol).

Because of malware being found in SourceForge downloads, this link has been removed.

tile from taprats result:

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Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:22 pm **(#2)**

Lyle - you're a diamond. Nice results too.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

Thanks Lyle!
I set up a Shellout bat file if anyone wants to call the program with Gimp.Just like Ghost you will have to save the image and reopen it in Gimp but it works.

Bat file

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@echo off
echo *** Do Not Close this Window ***
echo Temp File: %1
C:\jre7\bin\java.exe -jar c:\JavaJars\taprats.jar %1

And Shellout

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["TapRats", "\"c:\JavaJars\\taprats.bat\"", "png"],

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

New update available for this program.

dinasset · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:33 pm **(#5)**

Rod,
just seen your ability to call this pgm thru a .bat file
is a similar way available for the other two pgms with which Lyle is playing during these days? (mosaic.jar and voronoi.exe)?
(still awaiting Garry and/or David taking up the challenge of writing an original G'MIC filter)

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12850

It's been a while since I last played with Taprats. Might install it again (it is a Java based program as you figured out Dinasset) soon now that I can get my XP VM to use GPU acceleration (wasn't able to do so on my old system due to Flash player issues; not an issue now). Actually typing this in my Win7 VM, but I'm just checking a few things since it's been a few days (looks like there was another IE11 out of gamut update; just installed it). Not very happy with it since it's such a system hog. lol

Soon, I'll be back in XP VM world.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

dinasset wrote:

Rod,
just seen your ability to call this pgm thru a .bat file
is a similar way available for the other two pgms with which Lyle is playing during these days? (mosaic.jar and voronoi.exe)?
(still awaiting Garry and/or David taking up the challenge of writing an original G'MIC filter)

Mosaic.jar i am still working on as a viable bat file. I can't remember if it calls the
java.exe
javaws.exe or the
javaw.exe for running the jar file.
I believe java.exe is for 32 bit only.
Voronoi.exe should be easily called through shellout. However i believe there is a voronoi plug-in for GMP available.

Here are a couple different ones.
http://registry.gimp.org/node/16679
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6653&start=10#p83863

The voronoi plug-in in action.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

Another link.
http://www.saliences.com/projects/npr/s ... index.html

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12850

I just created a shortcut to the mosaic jar file itself Rod. You can't auto-import the image data that I can tell.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:09 pm **(#10)**

Still trying to keep up with you 'gurus' so I followed the steps to download 'taprats' and 'shellout'. I then created the .bat file and added the extra line to shellout.

Shellout appears in my filters list and as a test I called MS-paint - AOK.

When I select 'TapRats' from the shellout menu and click OK, the green progress bar operates, but shellout disappears, the command window (I think) flashes before my eyes, a new 'visible' layer is created (as selected) but thats it, nothing else happens, no error message et al.

Here is a snap of each file I created.

Is there anything obviously wrong or is there something else I should add or do first?. Thankyou.

dinasset · **Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:57 am **(#11)**

Rod wrote:

Another link.
http://www.saliences.com/projects/npr/s ... index.html

thanks Rod for all the infos...

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

my first composition with Taprats.jar program and Gimp mirror

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12850

Here's a creative crop making the result seamless.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12850

Just having fun with the texture.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34520999@ ... 6/sizes/o/

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Still trying to keep up with you 'gurus' so I followed the steps to download 'taprats' and 'shellout'. I then created the .bat file and added the extra line to shellout.

Shellout appears in my filters list and as a test I called MS-paint - AOK.

When I select 'TapRats' from the shellout menu and click OK, the green progress bar operates, but shellout disappears, the command window (I think) flashes before my eyes, a new 'visible' layer is created (as selected) but thats it, nothing else happens, no error message et al.

Here is a snap of each file I created.

[ Image ]
[ Image ]

Is there anything obviously wrong or is there something else I should add or do first?. Thankyou.

I had to copy the java file to my portables folder as so.

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@echo off
echo *** Do Not Close this Window ***
echo Temp File: %1
C:\Portables\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe -jar c:\Portables\taprats.jar %1

And Shellout

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["TapRats", "\"C:\\Portables\\taprats.bat\"", "png"],

This causes a file not found error to pop up but closing it starts the program. Then just add a pattern.

Unfortunately it will not draw though.

Traceback error dialog code-

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\gimp\2.0\python\gimpfu.py", line 735, in response
    dialog.res = run_script(params)
  File "C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\32\lib\gimp\2.0\python\gimpfu.py", line 361, in run_script
    return apply(function, params)
  File "C:\Users\Rod\.gimp-2.8\plug-ins\ShellOut.py", line 141, in plugin_main
    tempimage.add_layer(newlayer2,-1)
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'newlayer2' referenced before assignment

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

I changed the Shellout code to bmp because that is the extension taprats exports to.

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["TapRats", "\"C:\\Portables\\taprats.bat\"", "bmp"],

Results were the same.

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:38 pm **(#17)**

Thankyou Rod - I made directory changes similar to your specs and now I have Taprats working - no idea what to do with it yet but that will come I'm sure.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16197

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Thankyou Rod - I made directory changes similar to your specs and now I have Taprats working - no idea what to do with it yet but that will come I'm sure.

You have taprats exporting and creating a layer? I would like to know how please.

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

Taprats plus Gimp

MareroQ · **Posted:** Sat Dec 27, 2014 3:20 am **(#20)**

Rod wrote:

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Thankyou Rod - I made directory changes similar to your specs and now I have Taprats working - no idea what to do with it yet but that will come I'm sure.

You have taprats exporting and creating a layer? I would like to know how please.

Hi Rod.

For me it works.
It can change the code (no quotation marks "")?

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@echo off
echo *** Do Not Close this Window ***
echo Temp File: %1
"C:\Portables\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -jar c:\Portables\taprats.jar %1