The MathMap plugin for Gimp provides:
- A sophisticated scripting GUI+Language, specialised for graphics in Gimp+MathMap.
- e.g. One can peek individual pixels, run Mandelbrot algorithms, in very concise code.
- An assortment of processing functions written in that language
- A Graphical Nodal filter-application editor
Example Scripts and Visual Results:
- Still Image Effects
- Animation Effects
Video (Screencast) Presentations:
- Demo of the MathMap Composer
- Inaccessible (as of 2013-01-19) since it is a Private video (on YouTube).
- Alternative demo.
- And another demo.
- Introduction to the MathMap Language
- Inaccessible (as of 2013-01-19) since it is a Private video (on YouTube).
- MathMap Cocoa Introduction
- Inaccessible (as of 2013-01-19) since it is a Private video (on YouTube).
- New features in MathMap 1.3.4
- This one is accessible.
Explanatory Websites (BUT see further below for special required installation procedure instructions for Gimp v2.8):
- http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/
- Language Tutorial
- Language Reference
- New Language Features in MathMap v1.3 (unstable)
- The MathMap community hangs out at the MathMap Google group.
- There is also an active community on the MathMap Flickr group, where people share images they’ve created.
- You can also contact the maintainer, Mark Probst, directly.
Download & Installation instructions
- http://gimpedtutorials.com/index.php/how-to-install-mathmap-on-gimp-28/
- Really helpful instructions, before I found this I had a confusing mess of forum patches and partial advice, resulting in an installation that only part-worked.
- The problem is, the existing installation solution on mathmaps website does not currently install the plugin into Gimp 2.8 correctly
INSTALLATION instructions based on (but slightly clarfied from) [ http://gimpedtutorials.com/index.php/how-to-install-mathmap-on-gimp-28/ ]:
- How to Install Mathmap on gimp 2.8. Published July 19, 2012. | By paul.
- For those who dont know what Mathmap is, Mathmap is an addon that gives you a large collection of extra filters in Gimp. The problem is, the existing installation solution on mathmaps website does not currently install the plugin into Gimp 2.8 correctly. Of course, there are some truly brilliant people that have made it very easy for us to install Mathmap onto Gimp 2.8 manually.
- Step 1.) Download Mathmap
- …This is a .zip file that contains the folders that we are going to add to our gimp files.
- Step 2.) Extract the Folder
- …browse to the folder that you just downloaded, right-click on the folder, and click extract. Extract it somewhere where you can easily find it. Open the newly extracted folder.
- Step 3.) Browse to Your Gimp Folder
- In Windows, this is typically found at C:\Program Files\GIMP 2
- Step 4.) Add Files to the Bin
- In the folder that you extracted in Step 2, there is a folder that is called 32.
- Open that folder, and then open the folder inside called bin.
- There will be three [.dll] files there.
- Simply take those files and move them into the [bin] folder inside of your Gimp 2 folder that we opened in Step 3.
- Step 5.) Browse to Your Other Gimp Folder
- You can now close the window that you opened in Step 3, and open another folder.
- In Windows, this new folder is typically found at C:\.gimp-2.8.
- Tip: This folder is where you can also add brushes, patterns, and pretty much everything else to Gimp.
- Step 6.) Add the Mathmap Folder to Gimp 2.8
- In the folder that you extracted in Step 2, there is another folder called mathmap.
- Take that entire folder, and move it inside of the folder that you opened in Step 5.
- Make sure that you dont accidentally put this folder into a subfolder, you want it to be in the Gimp 2.8 folder.
- Step 7.) Open the Plug-ins Folder
- In the folder that you browsed to in Step 5, there is a folder called plug-ins.
- Open that folder for the next step.
- Step 8.) Add the Other Mathmap Folder to Gimp 2.8
- In the folder that you extracted in Step 2, there is another folder called plug-ins.
- Open that folder, and you will find yet another mathmap folder.
- Place that entire folder inside of the plug-ins folder that you opened in Step 7.
- Step 9.) Link the Path in Gimp
- Open up Gimp. Click edit>>>preferences.
- Expand the folders list at the bottom of the preferences dialog.
- Click on plug-ins
- Click on the new icon. This icon looks like (a blank page)
- (In resulting dialog):
- Click on the browse icon. This icon looks like (a folder icon, but grey)
- Browse to the [mathmap] folder that you added in Step 8.
- Click OK.
- Click OK to close out of the preferences dialog.
- Restart Gimp.
- Step 10.) Check to see if it works!
- In Gimp, click on Menu:[Filters > Generic > MathMap].
- Go to the [Filters] Tab
- You should now see a huge list of filters.