Mycelium

Creates a new image rendered by moving automata (threads or worms) feeding from the original.

Works on color, gray, and indexed images. Ignores the selection and alpha.

Example effects:

https://github.com/bootchk/pluginMycelium/blob/master/data/LenaGrayGreed...
https://github.com/bootchk/pluginMycelium/blob/master/data/LenaRGBGreedy...

The effects may be extremely varied; the examples are a small sample.

Appears in the menus under Filters>Map>Mycelium.

See the README file for a discussion of the parameters and more.

To install, uncompress the archive somewhere. Then move to the standard plug-ins directory:

- the file plugin-mycelium.py
- the directory pluginMycelium (a Python package)
- the directory pixmap (a Python package)

Also, change permissions on plugin-mycelium.py to make it executable (as always for Python plugins.)

It can be slow: experiment with small images.

Derived from: http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/mycelium-processing/

On Wiki, a place to start (although Mycelium are not Paterson worms): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterson%27s_worms

Open source code here: https://github.com/bootchk/pluginMycelium.git. Contributions are welcome.