> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:50, Eric Pierce wrote: >> This should be easy, but I just can't think how to do it. >> >> All I want to create is a radial burst. Sharp black and white lines >> evenly spaced emanating from the center. >> >> Exactly like the old Japanese flag but without the circle in the middle. >> See here: >> http://www.japanorama.com/images/navy_army_ww2_flag.gif >> >> I've been wracking my brains for the last several hours, and digging >> through the plug-ings, but I can't come up with anything. It seems like > > Yet another technique that I've had good luck with is to create a > repeating vertical gradient across the window and then convert it to > polar coordinates. For example: > > 1. Select the Black & White Gradient > 2. In the Gradient Tool Dialog select: > 2.1 Custom Gradient > 2.2 Linear (or bi-linear) > 2.3 Sawtooth or Triangular repeats > 3. Click and drag in the image window to get as many stripes as you > want rays. Make sure the stripes run vertically. > 4. Image/Filters/Distorts/Polar Coords > > Presto! Raidal rays. > > HTH, > --
Cool... that works really good! With Joao's ps script you can set the # of rays. Here's what I worked up w/Joao's script: http://epierce.freeshell.org/pics/radial.png Your technique would've worked well for this too. Eric Pierce > > --Jeff > > Jeff Trefftzs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.tcsn.net/trefftzs Home Page > http://gug.sunsite.dk/gallery.php?artist=68 Gimp Gallery > http://trefftzs.topcities.com/ Photo Gallery > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
