Smooth Path (new)

November 5, 2009 - 23:38 — ijontichy

This plugin will take the active path and smooth it, using a Bezier
interpolation algorithm. If you've ever wanted to define a bunch of
points, and then have the GIMP draw a smooth path through them, this
plugin is for you. There is the option to smooth corners between a
range of angles.

Settings include:

Smooth only specified corners: If checked,
only corners whose interior angles lie between the two settings below
will be smoothed.
Minimum angle: Corners blunter (greater) than
this angle will be smoothed.
Maximum angle: Corners sharper (less) than this
angle will be smoothed.

This plugin creates a new entry in the Paths dialog right-click menu.

For details of the algorithm used in this plugin, see here:

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~baker/java/hoefer/Spline.htm

Be sure to read the readme.txt file for installation and user help.

Thanks to Rob Antonishen for his valuable contributions.

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smooth-path.zip	16.76 KB
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Comments

May 22, 2011 - 22:19 — prexpressions

Smooth only some points - new feature?

Great tool, works really quick.

I'd like to suggest a feature that I should be able to smooth only a selection of points on the current path.

Is that possible some how?

Paul

April 27, 2011 - 21:59 — samj

Windows binary Gimp 64 bits

http://www.aljacom.com/~gimp/smooth-path_1-64bits.zip

Tests : Gimp GIMP 2.6.9 (http://sourceforge.net) 64 bits & Gimp 2.7.2 - Gimp 2.7.3 64 bits (Partha http://partha.com) / Windows7 64 bits

June 17, 2010 - 20:34 — Rhzial

Work on a mac?

Hi, Does this work on a Mac (Snow Leapord)?

July 15, 2010 - 12:06 — ijontichy

You have the C source code to

You have the C source code to my plugin. So you need to compile it. I suspect that you can only do that if you installed the GIMP from source, which is probably a tedious process, described here:

http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/buildgimp.html

And see here:

http://gimper.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=777

But once you have done that, then you simply run the following command on my source code like so:

gimptool-2.0 --install smooth-path.c

and that should install the plugin.

If I owned a Mac I would have made it much easier for you. :-)

November 6, 2009 - 20:23 — PhotoComiX

Update

i had to add a line of text (that..hem...may looks a bit self-contradictory )to make the edit accepted

November 13, 2009 - 11:29 — PhilB

problems

Hi,
I could not get this to work on windows with Gimp 2.6.7
or 2.6.3.
And I made sure the plugin was in the right place.

November 13, 2009 - 13:11 — schumaml

Works for me. Please

Works for me.

Please describe the steps you've done so far, and tell what happens and what doesn't happen.

April 20, 2010 - 23:07 — Bobgurung

Confused

This is pretty confusing for me as well as some of my fellow commentors. I found this plug-in not working in windows, i would be glad to know more in detail and the cause of problem for not working in windows. Moreover, What is the purpose of this plug-in?

April 21, 2010 - 09:02 — mahvin

If you do the following

If you "right click" a path inside the Path dialog, you'll get the context menu for Paths, and if your smooth path plugin is loaded, the Smooth path option will show there.

I use Smooth Path extensively to quickly round out my paths instead of having to manipulate every single node instance to smooth out my lines/corners/curves.

November 14, 2009 - 03:01 — PhilB

Oops

It works, I didn't have the paths-dialog open and was right clicking on the image instead of in the paths-dialog.

Thank you very much, ijontichy!

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