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52 lines
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Gimp Image Pipe Format
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The gih format is use to store a series of brushes, and some extra info
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for how to use them.
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Basically, the format is real simple. It is a text header, followed
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by a series of gbr files, all concatenated together.
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An image pipe can be thought of as an n-dimensional array of brushes.
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Each dimension is indexed when the pipe is used in painting by some
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parameter, eg an incremental counter, a random value, pointing device
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pen pressure,tilt or velocity , etc.
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An idea for how to implement editing of image pipes (with GIMP) is
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that each layer of the edited image representing the pipe is divided
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conceptually (and visualized by guides) into equal-sized elements,
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each element containing one pixmap brush. The typical cases are only
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one layer, with an array of brushes, or many layers, with just one
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brush per layer. (For instance something produced by some animator.)
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The header format
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================
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First line is the name of the pipe.
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Second line is the number of brushes in file, followed by the contents of
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the gimp-image-pipe-parameters parasite (a text string)
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ie
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===========================
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Fire
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6 ncells:6 step:20 dim:1 cols:3 rows:2 rank0:6 selection:incremental
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===========================
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The rest is just gbr files catted in.
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Making a gih file:
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1. Create a series of gbr files. Note these do not
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need to be the same size.
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2. Create a text header like above.
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3. Combine them all together:
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cat header brush1.gbr brush2.gbr brush3.gbr > foo.gih
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Or use the GIH plug-in to save a brush pipe from an image.
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That's about it for now.
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