G'MIC Tutorial Fragments

Lazy Arabesques
Related to Post 76. It’s great grandfather is the Roses one liner. And, there is an appearance of epicycles, but written in G’MIC this time, and not Python. Epicycles constitute the grande finale graphic of the upcoming Cookbook, and then there is this:


If I was a decent fellow, I’d post the listing for this, but the listing for this is a mess at the moment. It will be constituted, in some way or sideways, in the Arabesque Cookbook, coming next week in a tutorial set near you. For now, let it be known that the wheelies (epicycles) which draw arabesques live in the alternate reality of the frequency domain, where the analogues drift about in a lazy way. Back here in the time domain, a little z-blurring across frames renders the arabesques ever more languid. That’s it for now. Time to finish this thing. I said ‘next week’ last September, dammit.

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