Explanation of Plugins

preparation

1-GKlab
This plugin converts rgb-image to L*a*b*-image, and vise versa. Color space L*a*b* is similar to a color space that human visual system feels. The values of L*a*b* are as almost same as photoshop's L*a*b*, so you can use L*a*b* image created by Photoshop.

1-1GKDirec
This plugin finds short rodsfrom a source photo image and shows the result in new window. SIC use not only color source image but texture source image to create a work. This is one of remarkable characteristics about SIC. The result image of this plugin is used as the texture source image.

1-2GKmeanAlgo
This plugin divides the source photo image into smallest areas. The result is shown as green segmented image and a file like map in a new window. This plugin use the texture source image created by a previous plugin.

1-3GKAddPrincipal
This plugin converts the result of 2GKmeanAlgo to vector data. Scalability of SIC cause to this vector Data like map_28.

1-4GKIMerge
This plugin merges the similar segments and puts the results into new files like map_28_merged and unifymap_28_merged.

3-GKIAnalyse
This plugin add the characteristics of a human vision to the vector data like map_28_merged_imp or map_28_merged_abst

1-4GKReconstImage
this plugin creates many kinds of blush strokes. The result is shown in a green reconstructed image.

1-5GKSubstColor
This plugin paints blush strokes in the reconstructed image with color map sets created by 3-GKIAnalyse.

CurrentParasite...
This plugin show the history of applied plugins in a final work and intermediate image datafiles..

2-4GKReconstCompose not available yet

2-5GKSubstCompose not available yet