Montage combined with Faded array for 20 different images - How?

[afre (Alan)]

@dywen I don’t know how you have set up your notifications. Just wanted to let you know that I have made some edits to my previous posts, which you may or may not have caught. Kindly read them again.

Good luck.

[dywen]

Hi, afre,

Thanks for following this up, I really appreciate this. Gmic is new for me and differs from Imagemagick, the tool I’ve been using for on my part modest batch image processing.
I can’t answer fast during the weekend, because, that’s play time, thus 4-your olds say

I still get the syntax error:

gmic 23 repeat ! local[>] +fill. 1 +circle. 50%,50%,{min(w,h)*.49} normalize 0,255 -[1] 1 blend_fade[0,1] . keep[0] endlocal done append_tiles 0 replace_color 0,0,-1,-1,-1,230,255,230 output montage-2.png
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(’

Which is weird, because there is no ` and only one (
Que pasa?

And take your time, I have been doing a truckload of manual processing in the meantime - but I find this interesting to untangle! Food for futures.
Cheers!
Dywen
(back to being a pirate)

[afre (Alan)]

It may have to do with bash. I don’t have a Linux up and running, so I can’t check for you. One workaround is to make a command and save it in a *.gmic file. E.g.

hsv2rgb example image doesn't fit to the result from the G'MIC

This is because you are assuming that you can copy/paste directly the G’MIC command to a shell, append gmic to the front, and it will run as expected. This is not true. The shell has its own substitution mechanism and in this case, does something to the command that change it in a way it is still a valid G’MIC command, but renders something else. To be sure you run the ‘real’ G’MIC command, the best is to copy/paste the command in your user.gmic command file, e.g. foo : (0,360;0,360^0,…

It doesn’t have to be user.gmic. Could be any *.gmic as long as you insert it, just as you insert image files. E.g., gmic foo.gmic [...].

[rich2005]

A procedure for Gimp. A bit of preparation required before applying gmic montage.

Some white / transparent edges. These come from my collection of edge-mask. White could be recoloured in gmic if required.
A very flakey script, sg-shuffle-layers.scm to radomise the layer order. I does work but also throws up error message.
A plugin, shuffle-and-merge-files.py to combine a layer stack of edges with a layer stack of portraits.

For those interested zipped on dropbox
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A quick demo: 2 minutes

https://youtu.be/hPDEeiZpUdE

[afre (Alan)]

The CLI command afre_portraitmontage and its GUI counterpart Portrait Montage (afre's G'MIC diary - #166 by afre) have been committed. Wait a hour or so to update your commands and filters.