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[MadJik]

Kaleidoscope Effect Plugin

What's this?
This is a plugin under Effect/Distort menu.
Take a picture, and divide it as if you cut a pie in equal pieces.


Each piece is numbered, starting at 0 with the rightmost piece and anti clockwise counting.

The default is 6 pieces per image. It means "the pie" is divided in 6 pieces.

This plugin will copy/rotate the piece nr 1 all over the other pieces replacing the original image,
or will copy/rotate each piece mixing them all over the image.

Download it!
Plugin Kaleidoscope.dll

Here is the DLL

The source is available with the plugins package!
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=7186

How to install
Close Paint.net
Unzip and (re)place the DLL in your Effect folder usually: C:/Program Files/Paint.NET/Effects

The User interface

.Quantity of pieces (1,100,dft=6):
__You could increase/decrease the number of pieces around the image...

.Piece selector (modulo) (0,100,dft=0):
__Allows you to choose another piece as model to rotate...
Modulo means (in 16 pieces, 0 to 15) if you choose 17 you'll have 2...

.Radius %amount (0.01,400,dft=100):
__The radius is based on the smallest side of the image, that represents 100%. You could increase/decrease this radius.

.Zoom %amount (0.01,10000,dft=100):
__You choose the zoom in or zoom out amount.

.Choose reflective mode:
__Normal: The piece is only rotated around the center.
__Alerned (dft): One piece on two is mirrored to give more symetrical and continous aspect. The symetry is broken if the quantity of piece is odd.
__Reversed: All the pieces are mirrored.

.Cutting:
__None (dft): The background outside the pieces doesn't change.
__All the pieces: The background outside the pieces is changed to transparent.
__The selected piece: All is transparent except the selected piece.

.Copy over only one piece
__Checked (dft): Copy/rotate the piece all over the other pieces replacing the original image.
__Unchecked: Copy/rotate each piece mixing them all over the image.

.Colored helper only
__The plugin first creates a colored pie and each piece has a unique color. This is a 'temporary' result to simplify the picture copy/rotate/mirror.
You could see this 'temporary' result if you check the box for that.

.Draw lines width
__Set the width more than 0 to draw the lines of each pieces.

Let me know if you've got some trouble. or ideas of improvement.

And post your art...

Alterned reflection:


Copy all over all:


Cut all:


Cut one:


For your information, you could also find here:
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=4852
the kaleidoscope generator... to make this:

[MadJik]

Some play with gradient+dents and Kaleidoscope

[Zulu2]

yes!! a new plugin!! looks great!

[Helio]

This is one of the most awesome plugins. Ever.

A sunflower!

Great job Madjik! *Sticky'd*

[Jezulkim]

Well, it's cool. (<-- only one!!!) Makes my eyes go :shock:

[Illnab1024]

Awesomeness

Thanks for yet another neat plugin!

But sadly, I can't upgrade to v3.05 as my video card is fried like chicken (160*F hot oil ) and I am forced to safe mode.

[usedHONDA]

I'll download it, but I probably won't ever use it. Just like normal map, toon, and grid (and a few others).

[Illnab1024]

You're just posting randomly to get to 1000 aren't you?

[Bob]

^

[usedHONDA]

You're just posting randomly to get to 1000 aren't you?

I'm not sure if that was rhetorical or not, so I'll respond as if it is not:

No. I haven't looked at the number of my posts in 4 days (or 3)! But thanks for reminding me

[Illnab1024]

Hehe

[The_Lionhearted]

And the competition heats up...Illnab is in the lead, but barkbark has just reached 1000 and Madjik is close behind...they're coming round the far corner...

Ah, the good old days where I was hesitant to install plugins (if the good Rick wanted us to have this effect, then the good Rick would have included it) have gone away and now I have five million plugins in my Effects folder.

[BoltBait]

I'm just hoping one of them passes me up for "Biggest Troll" of this forum.

8)

On topic: MadJik, nice job (as always)!

[The_Lionhearted]

I'm just hoping one of them passes me up for "Biggest Troll" of this forum.

At the rate I'm going...



One thing I've been meaning to request for a while...Madjik, would it be too much trouble to put reset buttons on each of the sliders individually? Especially with plugins that have 6 or 7 different settings, I like to mess with each slider individually to see what it does...unfortunately by then I've forgotten what the default setting does. :?

[Bob]

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Guys, get a life XD

[Illnab1024]

Bob, my average posts per day is 2.

By the way, I think seniority counts for something (that means CMD and BoltBait have us; Bob, you're better than me by a month and French should rule the world, if it weren't for a bad military problem...; but, I beat you guys, usedHonda, The_Lionhearted, and others... I remember when y'all were noobs!)


Now that we have successfully jacked and derailed this entire thread, let's start looking through kaleidoscopes again, agreed?

"lock(dstArgs.Graphics)" is the same trick BoltBait used for those arrows, rather nice turning the canvas into GDI's space.

[BoltBait]

"lock(dstArgs.Graphics)" is the same trick BoltBait used for those arrows, rather nice turning the canvas into GDI's space.

That opens up all kinds of possibilities for rendering types of effects.

BTW, my post average is only 2/day.

[The_Lionhearted]

Dang it! He's beating me for average!

Illnab...I'm still a noob. Haven't found something "tutorial-worthy" yet...and I've only been on here 2 months. It's official...

I am addicted to Paint.Net.

But the kaliedoscope effect does rock! Can't wait for the next one Madjik...

[Picc84]

Looking unique! Man you guys like your odd-looking shapes pluginns dont yea's?

[MadJik]

One thing I've been meaning to request for a while...Madjik, would it be too much trouble to put reset buttons on each of the sliders individually? Especially with plugins that have 6 or 7 different settings, I like to mess with each slider individually to see what it does...unfortunately by then I've forgotten what the default setting does. :?

- The screenshot of the UI up here is with the default setting...
- It's only 4 sliders (not 6-7...)
- I'll see for a next version..

BTW on the last 12 post, only few are link to my topic. Have your discussion elsewhere guys... :x

Thanks.