Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] GSOC: Andrew Corcoran - New Magic Tools

[Andrew C. <aka...@gm...>]

Hi Andrew!

El dl 30 de 06 de 2008 a les 20:56 +0100, en/na Andrew Corcoran va
escriure:
> Hey everybody,
>
>
> My names Andrew Corcoran and I'm a recently graduated Computer
> Engineer currently based in Ireland. For the GSOC I'm working with
> Caroline Ford (secretlondon) on creating new magic tools for tuxpaint.
> So far I've created

Can be downloaded from somewhere?

They should be up cvs after the next patch :)

>
> Convert to greyscale

Can the number of grey levels be specified in some way?
  I am thinking in something similar to the size controller for stamps.

>
> Convert to binary (only two colours, pure black and pure white)

This can be the lower level if you implement a level controller for
greyscale.
Also, tuxpaint having yet a colorpicker, it should not be difficult to

specify the colors, being black and white the default.

I agree with you that would be a great idea and there are obviously another
number of tools that would benefit from the ability to control some sort of
variable. Unfortunatly the magic tools api has no facility to have this sort
of feature. I belive that kendrick is very interested in adding this to the
program but its rather singificant proposal.


>
> Silhouette tool - A sobel edge map
>
> Trace Contour - Similar to the same name plugin in photoshop, trace
> the edges of the image in colour
>
> Blur All - A full image gaussian blur
>
> Snowball - Adds snowballs to the image
>
> Snowflake - Adds snowflakes to the image

Are Snow* the same with different images?, if yes, maybe you can join
both and add an image chooser.
I can imagine flowers: adds flowers to the image. fish: adds fishes to
the image. coral: adds corals to the image, sandstorm: adds sand to the

image, etc.

Snowflake does indeed use an image however snowballs simply draws white
circles. It would be great to be able to add other images in a similar
fashion however that would either require lots of tools (a bit messy and
overengineered in my opinion) or a modification to the plugin api to allow
the selection of images inside a magic tool.

I can imagine too they will follow the sparkles evolution from magic to
brush, but I am speaking withouth knowing your work.


>
> Sharpen - enhance the edges of the image to make it "pop" more

> I'm also in the process of working on several ideas, namely a tool to
> add random noise to the image, a mosaic tool, a jigsaw tool and a
> clustering tool that will segment the image into only a small number
> of colours. If anyone has any comments, or suggestions for new tools
> that they would like to see implemented Id love to hear them.

some ideas:
rain: like glass tile but with random water drops instead of squares
glass sand: like glass tile but with very small squares or triangles and
saturating the colors.

railroad: draw a railroad, automatically joining rails when crossing

Those sound like some very interesting ideas - I'll definatly look into
them.


Yours
Pere




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