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Yep, exactly the same. All the other brushes are at 0 degrees, but the star brush is 17.5.
My gimp version 2.10.30 - default version installed with Ubuntu 22.
Thank you for verifying that for me!
We got em!
I am tempted to dig into the git checkins to see who actually made that change. But I am not familiar with the gimp file structure, nor where I can find the files for the brush shapes. Perhaps a project for a lazy sunday.
Interesting I found this
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/2582
"We haven't touched the star brush since 2.8, I think. But I can indeed see it is reversed."
I didn't know that was a thing, if you end up getting around to it I'd love to hear what you find!
Thanks again for taking the time to look into this!!
Okay, so I dug further into the source of GIMMP. I found out that the brushes were revamped in 2012, which was the GIMP 2.8 version. Before this, it was in a file called Diagonal-Star.vbr and did not have the 17.5 degrees rotation.
In 2.8, These files were entirely removed, and new files created with the new revamped design, and as part of it the star brush moved to Basic/Star.vbr which had the 17.5 degrees rotation.
The person who made the commits is Alexia Death and the comments says it was in collaboration with the user called Ramon Miranda
Here is a blog post talking about this revamp.
Here are the commit logs for the file:
The last line +17.500000 is the angle of rotation.