Box Fitting: A plug-in for Gimp

Browsing the Internet I found Complexification, created by Jared Tarbell, an artist that produces his paintings using his computers and some home-made algorithms. Go and visit his web site as he has some supperb works there.

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One of Jared's images that impressed me due to its "simplicity" and the results was called Box-Fitting. The algorithm to produce it basically makes some boxes or squares grow until they hit another box.

So I decided to program something similar with more parameters and options to achieve different results. I made a first Java version with quite good results. Some time later I was interested in the expansion possibilities of the image editing software GIMP and I decided to port the algorithm for it. It would also allow me to experiment with new interface technologies that I had not tried before. And from that effort the Box Fitting plug-in was born. In the source code you have some instructions about compiling and adding it to GIMP.

I hope that you'll get good results with it :-)