Hello. I'm trying to make a rice texture for a 3D model of a rice ball in Gimp. There's a pattern fill option, but I was wondering if I could apply random rotation to this. I've made a single rice grain, and I want to fill a 500x500 image with random rotations of it. I tried googling this, but I haven't found much because I don't know what the correct term is. Do you have any ideas for accomplishing such a task? If all else fails, I can manually paste and rotate the single rice grain hundreds of times. I was wondering if there's a more efficient method. Thanks for reading!

Ok. Thanks for responses! I'll try these out for sure!

First of all, I have GIMP version 2.8.6; something similar might be available in other versions, but I don't have confirmation of that.

That said, one way of doing it, I believe:

• Create or select a new brush using the relevant image; the "clipboard" brush might be a good choice for your purposes (simply copy your image to the clipboard and it should be available in that brush).
• Next, if you don't have an editable dynamics preset, create one: open the "Paint Dynamics" window (I got there in a quick check by clicking on the button to the left of the "Dynamics" section of the tool options for the "Paintbrush" tool, and then pressing the bottom-right button in the menu that should pop up) and click on the "add" button--in my version it resembles a page with a plus-sign overlaid on it, and the tool-tip for it reads "Create a new dynamics", I believe.
• Now open the "Paint Dynamics Editor" window--if you created a new dynamics preset above, then this may have opened automatically; if not, I believe that the button to open it is on the right-hand side of the "Dynamics" section of the tool options for the "Paintbrush" tool--directly opposite the (bigger) button mentioned in the step above.
• In this window, find the "Angle" row, and the "Random" column; set the indicated check-box.
  • Make any other changes that you may want while you're there.
    • You may want to reduce the spacing of the brush, for one: there may be an easier way, but I think that this can be done by selecting "Spacing" from the drop-down menu just below the name of the preset and creating the desired spacing--I found that assigning the spacing to "Pressure" and creating a low plateau on the graph seemed to work.
• If your preset isn't selected for the tool, do so.

When you paint with this preset, your image should be given a randomised rotation on each step.

This works great. Thanks for the tip!