G'MIC

🚀 We released the source code of our interactive G'MIC demos: Face Analysis, Image Style Transfer & Real-Time Face Warping—all under CeCILL license.
🔬 Developed at GREYC (CNRS/ENSICAEN/Unicaen) in support of France’s Open Science Plan.

👉 github.com/GreycLab/gmic-interactive-demos
#GMIC #OpenScience

⚙️ I've started a new G’MIC-powered side project!
Building a small real-time facial feature detection demo… in full steampunk style 🛠️✨

Face detection is already working 🎯
Now aiming to have it ready for the next science festival in Caen!

Stay tuned 🚀

#GMIC #GREYC #CNRS #ENSICAEN #UNICAEN

That's quite the opposite: there's a few things in the plug-in that are not in the online version 😅 We didn't let the computational intensive filters for the web service, to avoid our server to heat to much !

In this video I will show you my favorite plug-in for Affinity (Photo V2). It originally is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, but a lot of alternatives, including affinity, actually support using… The biggest plug-in for Affinity! (V1-V3)

Someone made a nice video about our G'MIC-Qt plug-in for Affinity! 🤩

▶️ youtu.be/iD_lD_azvFA?...

Our G'MIC Online web service, maintained by GREYC's DDA team, has been updated with the latest version of G'MIC, 3.7.2 😍
Feel free to try it out to apply filters to your images directly from a web browser! 🎨

▶️ gmicol.greyc.fr

#GMIC #GREYC #CNRS #ENSICAEN #UNICAEN

Amstrad CPC here. The colors were far too dull on the Commodore 64!

🚀 G’MIC ▶️ v.3.7.1 ◀️ is out!

This minor update brings a few new filters, bug fixes, performance improvements, and enhancements across the framework.

So happy to see how far the project has come since 2008!

We’re now taking a short break to recharge, and we’ll be back even more motivated 🔋
Enjoy!

Surprisingly, my latest filter tends to mess up tigers’ hair! I’d better avoid using it on myself! 😄
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New filter ▶️ Artistic → Marker Drawing ◀️ now available for our G'MIC-Qt plug-in, version 3.7.0!
A very entertaining filter, generatesresults that can vary greatly depending on how you adjust the settings.

Enjoy! 🥂

#GMIC #GREYC #Filter #ImageProcessing

A few more results:

Creative Update 🎨

Work in progress on my G'MIC experiment that try to simulate marker drawing…
I progress slowly but nicely, and I must say, the results are looking pretty cool to me already!

Still tweaking the behavior of strokes and ink diffusion, but it's getting there 🙂

Stay tuned!

Tonight, I'm experimenting with a G'MIC script, trying to simulate a kind of Marker Sketch.
Not sure we'll come up with anything conclusive, but it's still pretty fun!

#GMIC #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding

Creative Tuesday 🎨

A small animation inspired by the Diffusion-Limited Aggregation (DLA) process, revisited and generated with a short G'MIC script.

Mesmerizing organic growth, emerging from simple rules!

▶️ Source code: pastebin.com/TAMQRehK

#Gmic #CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt

Creative Saturday 🎨

I played with the Hilbert curve a bit today and made this little animation, with a G'MIC script.

Looks like a twisted Star Wars lightsaber!

▶️ Source code: pastebin.com/64syuj3D
▶️ Hilbert Curve: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert...

I've always been told, “Never release anything on a Friday!” — let alone Friday the 13th! 😈
I'm then happy to announce the release of a major new version of G'MIC: ▶️ 3.7.0 ◀️ ! 😅
Lots of improvements, new features, and refinements under the hood.
Enjoy!

▶️ Changelog: discuss.pixls.us/t/release-of...

It reminds me the goold old time of patch-based algorithms for texture synthesis 🤩

YouTube video by WooW Design Effect Des CENTAINES de filtres supplémentaires dans le Pixel Studio d’AFFINITY (exclusivité WINDOWS)

I stumbled upon this cool video in French on YouTube, which presents the G'MIC-Qt plugin for Affinity Canva. It's always nice to see someone who seems to appreciate our little plugin!
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▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=szsm...

#GREYC #CNRS #ENSICAEN #UNICAEN

🚀 New in G’MIC-Qt: you can now send messages directly to the developers - feedback, bug reports, or encouragements - straight from the G'MIC-Qt plugin, no forum needed! 💌 Find it in the ▶️ About / Send Feedback ◀️ filter.
#GMIC #OpenSource #GREYC

New G’MIC filter available!
▶️ Deformations / Heightfield Warp ◀️ turns an image into a 3D elevated view using predefined or custom height functions. Flat images instantly gain depth and relief; perfect for creative distortions and 3D-like effects!
#GMIC #ImageProcessing #OpenSource

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We’ve just published episode #5 of our "G’MIC Adventures" serie: how a small perceptron can reproduce an image, using 'nn_lib', the machine-learning library, we started back in 2021.

A fun crossover between image processing and neural network experimentation 🧠 📷️

▶️ discuss.pixls.us/t/g-mic-adve...

For Windows users: New pre-release of the G’MIC-Qt plug-in (v.3.7.0_pre) is available from our download page.

It's *not* the final 3.7 release of but it brings compatibility with GIMP 3.0.8, fixing the issue Windows users experienced after updating GIMP from 3.0.6 to 3.0.8.

T'as mis deux photos pour qu'on puisse l'apprécier en stéréo 3D ? C'est gentil :)
C'est en voyant ça que je me dis que le télétravail, ça a quand même du bon parfois 😅

This also works to answer the question: “Why use old image processing algorithms in G'MIC rather than GPU-powered generative neural network-based stuff?” 😅

- On Linux : $HOME/.cache/gmic/
- On Windows: %APPDATA%/gmic/

This file actually exists on our web page : gmic.eu/data_film_pr...
The error is related to the fact the plug-in is not allowed to download this file automatically (for whatever reason, idk). You can still dl the file and copy it in the G'MIC resources folder (whose path depends on the OS you use).

Absolutely agree! 😇

▶️ Funny G'MIC one-liner of the day 😜

pastebin.com/itRjN8RM

▶️ Just started working on the upcoming major release G’MIC 3.7.0!
▶️ Focus: code clean-ups, performance improvements, and upgrading the internal "nn_lib" for better/more complex machine learning stuffs.
Lots of exciting work ahead 🚀

New G’MIC command: ▶️ random_patches ◀️ generates synthetic thumbnails with procedural geometric content (polygons, textures, colored backgrounds).
Primarily designed for training neural networks (denoising, super-resolution…), and - unexpectedly - producing some playful, quite artistic visuals too 🤩