Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.0) Installed from: Mandriva RPMs Metapixel is GPL software to produce photomosaics. It can generate classical photomosaics, in which the source image is viewed as a matrix of equally sized rectangles for each of which a matching image is substitued, as well as collage-style photomosaics, in which rectangular parts of the source image at arbitrary positions (i.e. not aligned to a matrix) are substituted by matching images. http://www.photomosaic.com/rt/1.htm http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/~schani/metapixel/ It would be great to have it integrated in digikam as two plugins : - a digikamimageplugin : you select the picture you want as a photomosaic, start the photomosaic plugin, then you can choose the number of small pictures, the database of small pictures, the amout of cheating, the output resolution... - a kipiplugin : this plugin woudl be used to build the database of thumbails for a photomosaic, you could add pictures from multiple albums sorted by aspect ratio.
That sounds like something I'd like to tackle. I've been wanting to write a photomosaic program using Metapixel, but I couldn't figure out where to start.
Caulier Gilles wrote: > Any contributions are always welcome. Writting a new plugin is not very > complicated and can be coordinate easily (there are lot of examples in svn i > think (:=)))) > > About to create a new photomosaic new plugin, i'm agree, but i can't manage > it. If you have any time to do, feel free. > > Nota : i think this must be a kipi plugin, not image plugins because > photomosiac must be generated using a image collection. Also, the plugin will > call an external program (Metapixel) and this is most dedicaced to a > kipi-plugin. If you need to have more info, you can always bug us on #digikam
I see this wish is quite old, but as I find it interesting I wonder if there is any plan to implement a metapixel plugin into KIPI 1.x ? Thanks
*** Bug 343458 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Right url to metapixel : http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/metapixel/
There is no plan to create a kipi tool with metapixel. it's more a task for digiKam image editor
A possible implementation to port as a dplugin can be found here : https://github.com/scheckmedia/ImageMosaicWall Not too much complicated and can be assigned to a student Gilles Caulier
I just finish to port ImageMosaicWall tool to digiKam plugin infrastructure: https://github.com/cgilles/ImageMosaicWall I send a PR to original author for an official integration. I'm in contact with this guy, so when the PR will be backported, i will integrate this plugin as extra tool, as it's already done with GMic-qt... Gilles Caulier
Screenshot : https://i.imgur.com/jjFaGSZ.png
Git commit 8ba79f6e40cee59003ea75572bff494a58cf5c64 by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 26/05/2020 at 13:48. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. Add ImageMosaicWall plugin as 3rdparty tool in FlatPak bundle M +11 -0 org.kde.digikam.json https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-applications/commit/8ba79f6e40cee59003ea75572bff494a58cf5c64
Git commit 6a6acc9df8c6030f9dc746b50d13258027483338 by Gilles Caulier. Committed on 26/05/2020 at 14:08. Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'. Integrate ImageMosaicWall tool as 3rd party plugin in all digiKam bundles. FIXED-IN: 7.0.0 M +3 -1 NEWS M +1 -0 project/bundles/3rdparty/CMakeLists.txt A +21 -0 project/bundles/3rdparty/ext_mosaicwall/CMakeLists.txt M +2 -1 project/bundles/appimage/03-build-digikam.sh M +2 -1 project/bundles/macports/03-build-digikam.sh M +2 -1 project/bundles/mxe/03-build-digikam.sh https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/commit/6a6acc9df8c6030f9dc746b50d13258027483338