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Bah, drawplus just gives you the dimensions of the rectangle enclosing the shape.
Ah well that sounds like a perfect solution. I knew there must be something about like that.
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Edit -- Actually, I gotta ask - why do people want to do this sort of thing anyway ? I don't think I have ever felt the need to know areas. I guess for gaming you might want an area of effect spell...
Last edited by Redrobes; 06-17-2008 at 04:37 PM.
Bah, drawplus just gives you the dimensions of the rectangle enclosing the shape.
Wow-
I feel like a schmuck now. I answered in the other thread that the GIMP histogram has a Mean value display without noticing it also has a pixel count of the image (or current selection):
Using the sample image in the other thread and selecting the white with the colour select tool and a 1 px feather gives 165557/(1024*1024)=15.78%
-Rob A>
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Argh - look at this - without even selecting it, if you stick your cursor on the histo for the whole image at the half way point ( 128 ) then it even reads it out for you as 15.8% OMG. So its ridiculously easy to get at it. So basically, read it off and multiply by the total area and thats the island area.
Thanks so much for the pointer to Paint.net. Its just the thing!
My take on the June contest has been to use the map data to generate more history\story. To that end, I've been trying to develop existing story threads and experiment with demographics and random generation.Edit -- Actually, I gotta ask - why do people want to do this sort of thing anyway ? I don't think I have ever felt the need to know areas. I guess for gaming you might want an area of effect spell...
Area calculation is not a common tool but it is a useful tool for a mapper - hence the request. GIS systems use it to count the percentage of various elements, say forest vs grassland, in a region.
Its not big in Fantasy maps cause its a little bookish but hey, I am trying to learn here.. And I could never justify the cost of some GIS systems that offer it out of the box.
Sigurd
Last edited by Sigurd; 06-17-2008 at 07:46 PM.
Thanks redrobes! I tried it in gimp and it does too, except instead of clicking in the histogram you drag to select a range and it tells you the percentage (15.8 here as well).Originally Posted by Redrobes
-Rob A>
My GIMP Scripts: Rotating Brush ~ Gradient from Image ~ Mosaic Tile Helper ~ Random Density Map ~ Subterranean Map Prettier ~ Tapered Stroke Path ~ Random Rotate Floating Layer ~ Batch Image to Pattern ~ Better Seamless Tiles ~ Tile Shuffle ~ Scale Pattern ~ Grid of Guides ~ Fractalize path ~ Label Points
My Maps: Finished Maps ~ Challenge Entries ~ My Portfolio: www.cartocopia.com
I can think of an application for my current Mapping Challenge entry, actually. I am currently wondering how much farmland I need to support my little village. Once I figure out how many people can be supported per square mile (probably around 80, given the terrain and available technology), I'll need to know what the area of my irregularly-shaped plots is so that I can determine how many more such plots I need to paint in.
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Big thanks to wacko76!
The paint.net solution is damn near perfect. The easier it is the more useful it is - with due reverence to redrobes, we seem to have found a number of easy ways.
One of the really great opportunities of having a map to work from is discovering what really 'looks right'. I'm so used to having the idea first and the map second that this is a special challenge.
To me its central to the second level of the world building project.
Sigurd
Repping whacko76 for rushing in to save the day.
He has the highest percentage of solved problems per post on the entire board! (at least for now
Last edited by Sigurd; 06-17-2008 at 08:10 PM.
Sooo... now how about posting up some maps from Paint.NET? I downloaded it the other day just to play around, and some of the fairly easy things from GIMP I was not able to figure out how to do in it. I think it would be nice to see what kind of stuff can make out of it without to much work.
Joe
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Sounds like a great idea. Paint.net looks like a nice interface and its very fast on my machine (low resources I think) It definitely compares to other free graphic packages.
Only problem is I'm content to let it be a one trick pony - I'll measure area in it and, at least initially, keep using my other software.
Sigurd.
Doesn't mean I don't appreciate the one trick pony
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