It sounds like you're describing what is commonly known as "godbeams".
John Woods has several very good Photoshop tutorials online - most can be
easily adapted to The Gimp. Check out this link and look for the godbeams
tutorial:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/uc/ucjwoods3.htm
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Timoth
Hans Henrik Hansen wrote:
Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:22 Sven Neumann wrote:
You can control the amount of memory that GIMP uses by tuning the
tile-cache size setting. GIMP will then use a swap file instead of
causing an OOM situation that might cause it to be killed by the OS.
Of course things will
Sven Neumann wrote:
Hi,
Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have attempted to duplicate the problem as well. I'm running SuSE
9.2 and re-installed gimp 2.0. The only thing I can find that creates
such a problem is when gimp takes up too much memory and the OS kills
gimp. I have 9.2 on a laptop
Tuesday, 29 March 2005 23:22 Sven Neumann wrote:
> You can control the amount of memory that GIMP uses by tuning the
> tile-cache size setting. GIMP will then use a swap file instead of
> causing an OOM situation that might cause it to be killed by the OS.
> Of course things will become rather slow
Hi,
Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have attempted to duplicate the problem as well. I'm running SuSE
> 9.2 and re-installed gimp 2.0. The only thing I can find that creates
> such a problem is when gimp takes up too much memory and the OS kills
> gimp. I have 9.2 on a laptop with 768
Sorry folks! The extra messages were most likely posted because of
some glitch in my system when I was trying to post. The system failed
twice when sending the message and finally sent it when I tried the
third time. Now I see that my system did deliver the failed posts
somehow.
Sorry again, an