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The worn paper background is really nice.

Thank you for making this available!

(Honestly I'm just browsing so my opinion doesn't count for much, but is it possible to make the randomness of the 'worn paper' look plugged into to some random noise generator that gives the same look? I'm thinking of something like perlin noise (or some such) which also takes seed number. That way, star charts could be displayed next to eachother without looking like printing on worn paper that looks like clones because of the exact same paper look. A BIG ask, I know!)

Arkimedz308 days ago(+1)

Thanks for the comment and your interest in this. Initially I had started with trying out Perlin noise to generate the background. But the main reason I removed it was that it was taking a performance hit and too long to generate a background that looked reasonably well. To make it look realistic, I was having to do several passes of perlin noise with different frequencies. There might be faster ways to achieve the same thing and that's something I could try in the future. If you know about such approaches - would love to learn about them!

poison.ivy.maze308 days ago

I've made a quick mockup in GIMP of a couple of paper samples. Would this kinds of thing be to your quality standards? (artefacts on the image such as corner stains and rust marks really help make it pop, but I'm starting simple first).

If this is indeed the kind of thing you'd find acceptable, I could look into writing up a Script-Fu automated process. I haven't written Script-Fu before, but I might be able to eventually get something working.

My trick is using perlin noise on a transparent layers and with layers shifted with translucent pixels, shifting the hue and opacity of each layer.

Above uses Perlin noise from the website: http://kitfox.com/projects/perlinNoiseMaker/

The above uses Perlin noise generated natively in GIMP

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