Hello David --

Thank you for your compliment and sharing your work - but these lists do not accept e-mail attachments - they are automatically removed.

You will have to find a web page and upload your work there, and share the links.

You might also be interested in sending the links to gimp-users list, so as to reach
a broader audience.

As for the filters: They are pure mathematical operations, and are actually simple in nature.
They are specific kernel convolution operators (at least most of them - maybe one or other of
GIMP's algorithms include some other step, like coloring up the results).

You can read more about this type of operation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)

And most importantly - you can try different custom convolutions in GIMP using the generic convolution filter you can find at "Filters->Generic>Convolution Matrix"

Regards,

js

On 2 March 2015 at 14:22, Rosenthal, David wrote:

Hi, I have been using GIMP for about 5 years and love working with it. Thank you to all who have made this wonderful tool possible. I use the edge detection filter a lot on cloud formations. Sometimes I get results so fantastic, I wonder if there is any 'intelligence' coded into the filter to create meaningful forms out of random data, or , is it really finding something that we can't see. I enclose a couple of particularly apocalyptic results.
I've tested many combinations , including applying equalization, levels, invert etc but the best results are a simple NEON edge filter with settings of 9/.3.
I am attaching the original photos and their 'neoned' results (using the Spencer Kimball plugin - which gives simiar results to directly running the Neon Edge Filter in GIMP 2.8). I reduced the size to make the overall email smaller. (All photo's by the way are unretouched, including ...1846 which seems to show a few weird things in the original photo: person sitting on cloud reading a book at about 3 o'clock along with something billowing out clouds.)
Is it just me that gets these apocalyptic images ? (not just from clouds too!)
I would be interested in any comments you may have on this Is question. Thank you very much.

*- david *

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