I was at Sourceforge.net last night and found a ton of Gimp related software. I understand what most of it is, however I have a few I wasn't sure of and like more info on. Thanks in advance!

I downloaded these three.
WrapMap
Numbered Icon Generator
Gimp Plug-in for Image Registration

What are these? Are they worth checking out?
Lasm's FX Effects (still relevant?)
Film Gimp (CinePaint)
Stitch Panorama
Geeqie Image Viewer
bASCII art generator

Ask Ofnuts about wrapmap; he created it and it is pretty cool (but requires Python of course). bASCII converts bitmap to ASCII (text). Cinepaint is really not GIMP but a branch that completely went on it's own. It's cool that it supports true HDR (32-bit per channel color; GIMP only supports 8-bit per channel color) and these guys really want to placate to the movie industry. The rest I've either seen and am too lazy to explain what they are, or have not seen (you can guess; lol).

WrapMap
a cool script, it was presented in this board time ago, you may want to search the post because is rich of examples
(and images speak more clear)

Numbered Icon Generator
"Creates a set of icons with numbers or letters in the center when given a base icon. Useful for creating a set of icons that can be used in conjunction with the Google Maps "My Maps" feature. Scripts run under GIMP."

Gimp Plug-in for Image Registration
Registration here mean alignment see http://registry.gimp.org/node/24248

Lasm's FX Effects (still relevant?)
good script but that version is obsolete

Film Gimp (CinePaint)
Old over bloated gimp fork, i found unusable at least on win

Stitch Panorama
Well the name isn't clear? should help to compose wide panoramas from separate shoot (separate but taken with a tripod and precision)

Geeqie Image Viewer

Not a gimp plugin just a image viewer

bASCII art generator

to create ASCII art (to simplify the concept text art:
as example make the design of a smile but using letter )

wrap map is a good script,You can make some pretty nice frames with that

Lasm is FX-Foundry, (don't like FX-Foundry scripts.

wrap map thread viewtopic.php?f=11&t=553&start=30
You will find the mathmap script in post #40 in link above.

Oops, I got ninj'd.

Thanks everyone!

Yes, the name is clear. I have many years of experience with Panorama software, I'm simply curious about integration with Gimp.

I actually re-compiled the plugin for Gimp-2.7 (BASCII.exe), and it does work.
You have to convert the image to GRAYSCALE , or INDEXED first though.
Then it will be possible to save as BASCII ---- txt,asc

TO INSTALL
Just unzip to your plugins folder.

TO USE
Open your image
Convert to either grayscale or indexed
Gimp-2.6.11 - Go to File>Save File As> in the save dialog drop down select BASCII
Gimp-2.7.4 - Go to File>Export As> in the save/export dialog drop down select BASCII
Select where to save the txt file
A dialog will open to select font and size

Select okay
The txt file will be saved where you asked to save it.

It doesn't seem to work all that well though.
You can be the judge i guess.

Zip attached

Lasm FX is not associated with FX-Foundry. The Lasm FX scripts date back about a dozen years and for the most part have been obviated by functions that have since been incorporated into GIMP defaults (a couple of them seem to be interesting enough to update though... hmmmm...).


How does this plug-in differ from just saving your file as ASCII art (i.e., with the .txt exension)? Or is this perhaps another case of a useful plug-in later being incorporated into GIMP's out-of-the-box capability?

As far as i can tell you can not save your file as txt extension in either Gimp-2.6 or Gimp-2.7 versions.
You can save as HTML table but that creates some pretty huge files.

You should talk to whomever is providing your GIMP package so that they build against the ASCII Art library (and, if necessary, include the GPL-licensed library as part of the package).

If the AA library is available, GIMP directly supports saving of ASCII art .txt files (I would certainly expect any decent GNU/Linux distribution to support this out of the box).

Sort of related, and, just as a side note, I search 3 sites pretty much daily. Below are the links.

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/?fq% ... _file_date

http://fileforum.betanews.com/

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Thanks Rod,
I checked out BASCII, the results are not what I would like. I'm not sure but with a bit of tweaking of the options on my part results might have been better.
I found your More Text thread. You guys made some nice examples (A little bump map magic).
I've used Textaizer Pro before, I think that's the way to go for now.
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f ... 774#p35691

I hope I got that link right. Is that the best way to link a previous topic or is there a permalink option?

saulgoode,
I guess this is what you mean?
ASCII art library
http://www.gimp.org/source/#optional_packages

Lyle,
Lots of good one, here's a couple more.
Gizmos (Windows, Linux, some Mac info)
http://www.techsupportalert.com/
AlternativeTo
http://alternativeto.net/

Yes we had some great fun with text manipulation in that thread.