User Guide

GNU Image Manipulation Program
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15.13.7.2 Starting filter
You can find this filter from the image menu through Filters → Render → Pattern → CML Explorer
15.13.7.3 Options
General Options
Figure 15.254: ‘CML Explorer’ filter options(Hue)
Filter options are distributed among Hue,Saturation, Value, Advanced, others and Misc.ops tabs. Some more options are
available. They will be described in following section.
Preview This filter offers you a Preview where you can see the result of your settings before they are applied to the image.
New seed; Fix seed; Random seed Random plays a large part in creating patterns. With these options, you can influence
the way random is generated. By clicking on the New seed button, you can force random to use a new source of
random. The preview will show you the result. Fix seed lets you keep the same seed and so to reproduce the same
effect with the filter. Random seed generates a random seed at random.
Open; Save With these both command buttons you can save pattern settings in a file, and to get them back later.
Hue tab This filter works in the HSV color model. In this tab, you can set options for Hue.
Function type In this drop-down list, you can select the method that will be used to treat the current layer. These methods
are:
• Keep image’s values: With this option, image hue values will be kept.
• Keep the first value: With this option, starting color will be standard cyan.
• Fill with k parameter, k{x(1-x)}ˆp, k{x(1-x)}ˆp stepped, kxˆp, kxˆp stepped, k(1-xˆp), k(1-xˆp) stepped: pattern
look will depend on k that you will set later in options.
• Delta function, Delta function stepped: FIXME
• sinˆp based Function, sinˆp stepped: These options create wave-like patterns, like aurora borealis or curtain folds.