I was wondering if any of you have given a thought to the Displace filter in Photoshop as a possible Paint.net plugin. It seems as if it works off a simple function of wrapping an image to an un-even surface based off light and shadows. Here is a better explanation of it.
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutoria ... place.html
I don't know how in detail the coding for this program goes, but it doesn't look like it needs as much as some of the other features already in place.
Thanks for hearing me out.