Roll your own background with GIMP
Posted by chengfu on 18 Feb 2007 2:39 pm. Filed under Misc Stuff.
The Gentoo Wiki has a cool tutorial on how to create your own cool background images with gimp. Basically it is a guide to the flame renderer and some color mapping but the results are impressive. I think the title “fractal backgrounds” is misleading because I don’t think these are fractal image but with some experimenting they look quite good. My first try took me like 5 minutes and looks like this:
You can download the full-size image by clicking on the thumbnail. The article in the Gentoo wiki also has some great example pictures for download.
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On March 6th, 2008 at 6:00 am
These are actually fractals: flam3.com and electricsheep.org if you’d like to use them as your screensaver, they are animated too!
On March 17th, 2008 at 10:15 am
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