Mersight is a GPL python program to manipulate images in bizarre ways. It allows you to tile images and transform them in a fractal manner. All the artwork on this page is under the GNU Free Documentation License and you're welcome to use it; just please copy it onto your hard drive or server rather than linking to it directly. The original image from www.worldforge.org is beech_summer_1_us.png. It is found in the worldforge cvs at media/vegetation/temperate_climate/trees/wild_trees/beech/beech_summer_1_us.png.

Below is the original beech tree.

Below is the beech tree with the mandelbrot fractal transform.

Below is the beech tree with the smooth tile transform.

Below is the beech tree with the tile transform.

The program folder with the python program and test images is available as mersight.zip. It requires python, the Image library and the Pmw megawidget library. To run the program, open python in the mersight folder and then type "import main" into the interpreter. When the program starts it automatically loads "image.png" from the mersight folder and then applies the mandelbrot transform. To load the original image again, click "loadimage" then hit the enter key, to apply the mandelbrot transform click "mandelbrot" then hit the enter key, to apply the tile transform click "tile" then hit the enter key and to apply the smooth tile click "smoothtile" then hit the enter key. To save the image, type "saveimage whatever.png" in the edit field at the bottom of the main window, this will save the image in the mersight folder.

In general the program is half made and I am no longer working on it, so it is difficult to use and kludgy. The links to library download sites were valid on July 20, 2004 so if they are dead by the time you read this, hopefully the internet archive will still have a copy.
 
 

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