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[pyrochild]

Download from my plugin set

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This plugin appears in the Blurs submenu. Effects -> Blurs -> Pixelate+

Yes, I know, this plugin is not really worth getting excited over, but whatever.

It adds a new sampling mode (the one GIMP uses) as well as the ability to use non-square cells.

[Mike Ryan]

Looks cool.

So, what was the codename for this one again?

[pyrochild]

Peanut

[Ash]

Good job, Thanks

[david.atwell]

@Mike: Well, they were all P- words. This one might've been Pixelate. :-P

Oh, but it's not a fruit...bloody potato...

EDIT: Neither is "peanut." Ruin my thought.

[pyrochild]

A peanut is a fruit.

[david.atwell]

A peanut is a legume.

[pyrochild]

And a legume is a fruit.
A is a B, and B is a C, so A must be a C.

[Mike Ryan]

Back on topic you two (ha!)

Anyways, this plugin works well. I am not noticing to many speed differences between GIMP and PdN options though.

[Ash]

Back on topic you two (ha!)

Anyways, this plugin works well. I am not noticing to many speed differences between GIMP and PdN options though.

Not about the speed.

[pyrochild]

the GIMP option gets slow when the cells are tall. Increasing width makes virtually no difference, but with a high height and low width, that's when you start noticing the difference.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I know that Ash. But in his plugin dialog box he says something about GIMP being slower. I was simply informing him I do not see to many speed changes :wink:

Edit:Pyro, I see what you are talking about now.

[pyrochild]

The difference, for those who care, is that Pdn reads the four corners of each cell, and averages those. GIMP reads every single pixel in the cell, and finds the mean of that. Because of the way memory is laid out, it's very fast to read across an image, but fairly taxing to read up or down, hence the slowdown when there is a high height setting.

[Blooper]

Only the corners? That's outrageous!
Thanks, pyro.

[pyrochild]

Only the corners? That's outrageous!

Yeah. Horrible, ain't it? Shame, shame, shame.

[IceFusion]

I'll try this, thanks

[mcamp14]

I'm sorry, but when would one ever want to pixelate something?

[pyrochild]

Way to be closed-minded.

[mcamp14]

Way to be closed-minded.

I am very open-minded. I am just looking for an example case when it would be used. I used to think that a gaussian blur is useless because who would want to blur something. Now I use it almost every time I make something on PDN.

[pyrochild]

I used to think that a gaussian blur is useless because who would want to blur something. Now I use it almost every time I make something on PDN.

So then you've already learned this lesson.