iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ME: god i can't stand this kinda crap. you jam together a bunch of old leftover scraps and i'm meant to be.. awed? cause it's big?? or what am i supposed to be feeling right now BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL WHICH I BELIEVE IS A PIECE OF CORPORATE ART: Be Not Afraid ME: where do i even start with that

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 12/09/2025

honey, what's wrong, you've hardly touched your festive fall gendered butt wipes

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Busiaco @busia.co · 02/10/2026

Ripping open a pixie nest and gorging myself on the grubs within.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 8h

Been doing my annual reread of my favourite book, "Firefox: The Eternal Quest To Keep It Looking Like It Did In 2015." Currently up to "The saga continues" (all the chapters are called "The saga continues")

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 17h

Hidden away in the attic up a set of stairs that my legs no longer have the strength to ascend: The portrait of my calves that just keep getting flabbier and paler even as my own calves appear to be supernaturally tight and tanned #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The middle-aged vampire poster: My doctor said I can only have one chalice of blood a day... but he didn't say how big of a chalice... [AI-generated image of an unliftably huge cup labelled 'blood'] #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I accidentally got in the teleporter with a blowfly but fortunately it just swapped our back muscles. And I tell you what this fly has some TRAPS #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Speedrun that incidentally proves P ≠ NP

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

One of the great slogans of our age.

Industry fair banner for Allegheny shredders that reads:
The future is here and everything needs to be destroyed.
Don't fall behind the times.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Actually, I think you'll find, a certain "Mister Hitchcock", has a thing, or two to say about, "Angry Birds", #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

couple of local kids staked Dracula. he turned into a cloud to get away and they vaped him. most fucked up thing... they straight up vaped him man. i don't even know if it was malice, it was like they were just operating on instinct. weren't filming a tiktok or nothing. #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They're making a new Pokemon game where you work in an abattoir #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saw a telepresence robot deep in the woods, far off the trails. It was lodged in a mire. Slowly sinking. There was nobody on the video feed but the robot begged me for help. I just watched. It offered me gold, rare incenses, wealth beyond imagining, answers. Makes you think #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 03/10/2026

Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 6, 1972. Designed by André Chante #andrechante

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

R. L. Stine returns for his first novel in ten years! Nightmare on Scream Lane will join such works as Fear Street, Ghosts of Fear Street, A Shocker on Shock Street, Escape Nightmare Crescent, Scary Road of Screams, and the long-awaited Nightmare on Nightmare Street. #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even scarier praying mantis that chews her partner's head off while mating but then shouts absolutely lurid invective down the neckhole #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i have become a gameshow host. that's right. i have been parasitised by a gameshow and hundreds of its young crawl beneath my skin #OctoberScaries #nonsense

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't want to tell Kashya how to do her job but if I'm running the Sisterhood of the Sightless Eye the first thing I'm doing is appropriating Gheed's bottomless stockpile of magic weapons

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When my paper man gets killed and I need to make a replacement character: �

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just about finished rereading The Lord Of The Rings for the first time in forever. Making better headway on the Appendices than I ever have before

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's been really exceptionally useful, both for trying to work out the statistical consequences of a possible mechanic, or coming up with dice combinations to hit a particular distribution

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kind of an odd adverb, 'feverishly'. When I have a fever I act with the speed and intensity of a sedated turtle

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 20/09/2026

Gebrauchsgraphik, 08, 1931. Cover design by Valentin Zietara designreviewed.com/artefacts/ge...

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How The Grinch Stole The Declaration Of Independence

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one of life's great quandaries

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I started dabbling in this when I was making Tuatara Deliquescence, but I'm still learning about it. I think this aspect of the toolkit will prove to be very powerful. periapt-games.itch.io/tuatara-deli... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Image transformation of a Tuatara using G'MIC and Affinity. Composited parts and stroke.

Image transformation of a Tuatara using G'MIC and Affinity. Composite parts and wireframe.

Image transformation of a Tuatara using G'MIC and Affinity. Mosaic and recolour.

Image transformation of a Tuatara using G'MIC and Affinity. Wireframe composited with text and glow using blend modes.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I didn't really get into it, but masks and blend modes become extremely powerful with G'MIC. You can blend the results of a filter in to the original image, either spatially so that the filter affects a region of the picture, or by blending into high or low values, into particular hues, etc.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I keep finding new things every time I mess around in it. I've been trying to get in the habit of keeping comprehensive output images just to remind myself what the filters do, hence the examples in this thread

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For some styles, G'MIC should simply be your first port of call. If your whole project is meant to have a 90s VHS look, then you'll be putting the VHS filter on every image. Similarly for filters like ghost, Dorure Gilding, CRT phosphors, stained glass, oldschool 8bits, wiremap, and old photograph.

Ghost filter creates a supernatural black and white look.

Dorure gilding filter creates a burnished metal look.

Wiremap filter (works best with simpler images with central individual subjects).

Old photograph filter. Sepia tone, grain, and noise.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

G'MIC is very powerful and very easy to get started with. It's very useful to have in your toolkit for image adjustments. I've used the plugin for Affinity and XnView and it works great. You can follow @gmic-eu.bsky.social for tips and showcases, and download G'MIC at gmic.eu/gmic300/

gmic.eu

G'MIC 3.0: A Third Dose to Process Your Images!

A full-featured open-source framework for processing generic image (2D,3D,3D+t) with multiple interfaces: command-line (cli), gimp plug-in, web service, Qt plug-in, C++ library

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

G'MIC has close to a thousand filters. I left out entire categories! Here are some images I rendered completely from scratch just by hitting random parameters, using the Chirikov-Taylor filter, neon lightning filter, organic fibers filter, and spline spirograph filter.

Whorls generated with Chirikov-Taylor filter.

Red neon bundle generated with neon lightning filter.

Magma-like effect generated with organic fibers filter, solar parameter.

Colourful spirograph tubes generated with spline spirograph filter.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Use masks and blend modes to combine the filtered image with the original image for more nuance. To ensure consistency you can copy-paste settings from the plug-in, or process your images as a batch from the command line.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I should note that I've been putting G'MIC through its paces by using a high-variance collage for the input. In some of the outputs, an area of the image ends up with disproportionate 'attention'. You'll almost certainly get a better result by applying filters to separate images.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some even more chaotic mosaic effects. Try using the 'Carres Lignes' filter with the darken blend mode to bring back details. The 'little boxy things' filter has a 2000s broken computer look. The mineral mosaic filter is a personal favourite. The pack ellipses filter tiles with wobbly circles.

The squares lines ['Carres Lignes'] filter.

The 'little boxy things' filter re-renders the image as boxes.

The mineral mosaic makes the art look like rock formations.

The pack ellipses filter, a CPU-intensive one, recreates the image from compressed ellipses.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The oldschool 8bits filter creates a lovely pixel art effect. The ascii art filter is similarly oldschool. The weave filter turns an image into strips of basketwork. These are also forms of quantisation, creating different patterns representing the original image.

The oldschool 8bits filter turns an image into pixel art.

The ascii art filter quantises the collage to coloured ascii symbols.

The weave filter turns an image into basketwork.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

G'MIC has lots of filters for quantisation, i.e., ways to create mosaics, partition or rearrange the image, find and reinforce edges, and so on. The smoothelate, tiled form, coloured ellipses ('Ellipses Colorees'), and hexagonal grid filters transform a picture into grids of tiles.

Smoothelate filter turns the image into a patchwork of smooth-cornered squares.

Tiled form filter, here using circles, turns the image into a mosaic.

Coloured ellipses ['Ellipses Colorees'] filter recreates image as coloured circles on black background.

Hexagonal grid filter quantises the image into hexagons.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are some good glitch filters in G'MIC. Here are the Huffman glitch filter, shredder filter, superstreak filter, and VHS filter. Not pictured: 'Self Glitching', another fav but it doesn't work well with the collage.

Filter for Huffman glitches. Colourful banding.

Shredder filter. Like shredded and imprecisely reassembled paper strips.

Superstreak filter. Ghostly imprints overlaid.

VHS filter simulates 'freckly' VHS noise.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are hundreds of G'MIC filters that re-render the image in different spaces, or that warp its 2D shape. You can use them to make abstract art, futuristic settings, or display showcases. Here are the loose photos, 3D blocks, 3D elevation, and Poincaré disk filter, applied to our collage.

3D blocks filter gives a coarse representation of the image mapping values to heights. A lot easier than recreating the image in Minecraft.

3D elevation filter (with Phong shading) creates a heightmap of the image.

Geometric Poincaré disk created from the collage.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With G'MIC we can render all sorts of visual effects overlaid on an image. Here we see a filter for beautiful bokeh lights, rain & snow filter for weather particulates, drop water filter for droplets, and random waves filter for ripples. Not useful for the collage but you can see how they work.

Bokeh filter lights as from a camera lens.

Water beading from the drop water filter.

Random waves filter overlays small ripples like droplets falling into a pool of water.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love experimenting with these dramatic changes to image styles. Here are three that alter and heighten the picture's colours drastically. The frequency representation filter and neon filter create high-contrast colours. The hallucinogen filter makes a weird liquid metal rainbow effect.

Frequency representation filter changes the colours to striking high-contrast bright values.

Neon filter (by Joan Rake) creates vivid contrast between dark and brilliant colours.

Hallucinogen filter (by Samj) creates a psychedelic 'liquid metal' effect.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We can dramatically change an image style by using G'MIC to redraw its lines in abstract ways. Here are the Stringify, black crayon graffiti, and filaments filters.

Stringify filter. The art is re-rendered as a delicate web of thin lines.

Black crayon graffiti filter. Image reduced to bright lines on a dark background.

Filaments filter. Only an impression of the original collage remains.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

G'MIC can mimic lots of art styles. Here are some for large areas of flat colour. That includes the cartoon and comic book filters, for bright colours and strong lines. Also the vector painting filter and Cubism filter (here specifically 'Cubisme B'), for more impressionistic styles.

Cartoon filter reduces the image to poster colours.

Vector painting filter changes the image to digital art with expanses of the same colour.

Comicbook filter changes the image to bright, flat colours and strong lines.

Cubism ('Cubisme B') filter imitates a painting style.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some of G'MIC's filters imitate black-and-white traditional media. These can be quite striking. Here is our collage again, put through the charcoal, engrave, lineart, and pencil portrait filters. If you were doing this for real, you would fine-tune the filter parameters to get the best results.

Collage reduced to black and white with the charcoal filter.

Image reduced to black and white with the engrave filter.

Image reduced to black and white linework using the lineart filter.

Image reduced to sepia using the pencil portrait filter.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Let's start with changes to art style. You can use G'MIC to recreate an image as if with traditional media like pens or paintbrushes. Here are the marker drawing filter, sketch filter, brushify filter, and Angoisse anguish filter.

Marker drawing filter. The image is rendered as coloured lines.

Brushify filter. The image as brushstrokes.

Angoisse anguish filter. The image with dark mood lighting.

Sketch filter. The image as crosshatched lines.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can unify style manually using palette, motifs, proportion, individual image adjustments, etc. But with the right G'MIC filter, you could pick out assets and not care that they're a photo, watercolour painting, and vector graphic, because the filter changes them into the same visual style.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some filters will work better in one part of the image than in others. Others will effectively unify all parts of the collage into a single aesthetic. That's very useful when working with stock art! You want a unified style, conferring a stronger sense of an overall project aesthetic and identity.

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I whipped this up to cover different input styles: photographic, cartoon, lineart, discrete object, watercolour, stylisation, realism, areas of light and dark, areas of high and low contrast, hard and soft edges, etc.

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