01-31-2018, 11:19 PM
...and this reference to a script mentioned in an July 2013 post of Ofnuts' I just came from on the old dead dessicating gimpforums.com which transforms a panoramic image into a ring (the region between two radii on a circle):
http://registry.gimp.org/node/20869
You could maybe examine it to see if you could modify it to fit to another geometrically describable figure. (I was actually wondering if it would be possible to just, ignorantly, "copy" a rectangular figure, line-by-line, top-to-bottom, squeezing individual lines down as necessary to "fit" the lines of an arbitrary shape, line-by-line, top-to-bottom.)
http://registry.gimp.org/node/20869
You could maybe examine it to see if you could modify it to fit to another geometrically describable figure. (I was actually wondering if it would be possible to just, ignorantly, "copy" a rectangular figure, line-by-line, top-to-bottom, squeezing individual lines down as necessary to "fit" the lines of an arbitrary shape, line-by-line, top-to-bottom.)