i list only that compatible also with free viewer /editor (not sure about gimp pspi i stopped to use it )

1 Cybia
side has a new look some more plugin and all the free plugin updated
The plugin page is here http://www.cybia.co.uk/photography.html
...i suggest to get this http://www.cybia.co.uk/colourstudio.html because contain a cool and free plugin (vivida)
for the rest the demo version are not limited by trial time but by functions, they will add big watermarks or may have save disabled
2 MV's Vicanek
a lot of free plugin
updates are mainly for improve compatibility with 7
http://www.vicanek.de/plugins.htm

3 new version of Virtual Photographer
Only 1 plugin but with tons of different presets (and a bit as for Gmic new preset may be added )

4 Some new free filters by Richard Rosenman
http://www.richardrosenman.com/software/downloads/

5 several good and free filters
http://www.photo-plugins.com/Plugins/Plugins/

Does Rosenman's Box Fitting filter just use boxes? Or are there other shape options within the filter (I have never used it).

Thanks for the update PC.

Mahvin here are the settings



results

@mahvin

Alas only randomly sized boxes, you may only decide the max box size.

Only workaround you may rotate the image of 45°, enlarge canvas so the diagonal fit, enlarge layer at canvas size, and so get something that, rotated and cropped back would look as filled with rhombus

You know what I was thinking? Using a rounding technique on the boxes, but the problem is being able to actively select every box in the image and convert to paths. It's a bit too much of a task to perform that way. Lyle's method is by far the closest for circles, yet, which requires resizing in Inkscape.

Rod, can you do me a favor? Can you post just a random black and white pattern of the boxes up here? I want to try something, but I just downloaded Ubuntu Natty and bare bones on GIMP stuff.

Wasn't sure what sizes you wanted so i tilted the size meter all the way to 100 as max.

Here are 2 more great links to 8bf filters.
http://www.mehdiplugins.com/
http://photoshop.pluginsworld.com/plugi ... =photoshop

Thanks, Rod!

I guess you can call this a successful failure. It didn't do what I wanted it to, but it showed me a very unique way to make squares into circles. Unfortunately, the circles don't reduce in size to avoid overlapping each other.

Sort of cool result Mahvin; what's your secret (if you are willing to share) please?

It was pretty simple, Lyle. Using the color tool, I selected white boxes, then converted the selections to a path. In Path dialog, I used smooth path (default settings), http://registry.gimp.org/node/20069 checking the "Smooth only specified corners" box.

Yup; just tried this and got something similar to what you did. Wonder if there is a way to get the paths separated more? That's still cool info Mahvin.

I tried scaling, no dice. If the path smoothing would occur "inside" the box, rather than outside, we'd be in business. I thought maybe by inverting the selection before converting to a path would help, and it didn't.

OK; Inkscape to the resque. I exported the path as SVG and ported that result into Inkscape. I broke apart the path and then used Inkscape's Remove overlap feature and set the page size to fit the new dimensions. Ported the resulting SVG back into GIMP and saved (didn't have to do this; could have just did this in Inkscape; lol).

PS; you ninjaed me.

Lyle to the rescue, once again. Brilliant!

BTW, looking at your resulting image, do you notice a peculiar pattern with the method of how the sizes are randomized? I've seen this process somewhere else, looks almost identical when the shapes are circles, it was hard to tell with boxes (squares).

More fun for my feeble brain then brilliant Mahvin. You were the one to figure out the smooth path step (not sure if this could be all done in Inkscape itself though). Cool that you can export paths in GIMP as svg files.

I've used cybia filters for a few years, i've never had one to not work yet, these will be fun. thanks.