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I have submitted my score. I kept fiddling with the controls until it was about right. Any pianist trying it will hate me!

I've really not yet had any success. The plugin seems to stretch out the original where I'd like to just bend the original rectangle into a spiral with the height and the length being in the same proportions as the original. No doubt a lot of this is my ineptitude with PAINT.NET. I am immensely grateful that @MJW has done this work. Hopefully I can make it work well enough, ultimately. Here are some images of what I've tried so far. This is what I started with: That's a rectangle and it was on a square canvas. I couldn't even get anything worth pasting here to show, but everything was stretched out and mostly invisible in the rectangle. I tried squashing up the image: and then this was the best I got: and this is not usable. As before, I'm a complete novice at this sort of app, so no doubt it's VERY possible I've made some rookie errors. In terms of timeline, ideally, I'd like to submit my score on Monday 30th for the poor musicians who are going to workshop it on 7th Dec. My final project has to be submitted on 9th. It'd be so cool to submit a neat spiral score. (I can otherwise bodge something in Powerpoint I guess or maybe even handwrite.)

Wow! Thanks! I'm such a numpty at Paint.net (and any graphics package) I have installed it, but not yet mastered it. I pasted in a graphic of some music, but the spiral had nothing in it apart from whiteness. When I have a bit more time, I'll have another go.

Thank you both. I have tried MJW's option and rather expect Pixey's solution to produce the same result. The issue is that the Droste effect repeats the material of the circle once every "revolution", whereas I'd like the spiral be continuous so that from the outside you could keep on reading different music whilst turning the page a couple of times. (I'd get rid of / cover up the middle descending into nothingness.) Maybe the solution is to layer two Droste spirals somehow? Seems like I will need to learn a load more about Paint.net. But Droste is a BIG advance. Thanks

Apologies if this is answered elsewhere (if so, it'd be kind to point me to the right place, please) I want to change a rectangular image into a spiral. I have some music that I'd like to have represented in this way. A composer who was also a calligrapher did his all by hand (see pic). I don't have calligraphy skills. I've been looking around and can't see anything. In case it's relevant, I am not at all competent at image manipulation so if someone has a solution, I'd very much appreciate simple explanations. Thanks in advance.