On 12-09-11 19:27, Tom Sparks wrote:
From: Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...226...>
Sent: Monday, 12 September 2011 7:57 PM
If you know of any program that can (semi-)automatically create those kinds of hatchings, I'd love to know. As for importing from the gimp, if it's just a bitmap it will still be just a bitmap when imported. You might have some luck with tracing such bitmaps though (so if you manage to get a nice bitmap with a hatching, you be able to import it and get a decent trace of it so that you alter it in Inkscape).
there are papers[1] on Non-photorealistic rendering, so why has nobody (nerds included) created a plugin/filter/program?
Well a lot are "not that good", another is that (many) are made for shading 3D models (rather than helping with 2D drawing). Although there is bound to be something out there that uses one of these algorithms, I would expect it more in the 3D modelling area.