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This is the only project I see as manageable in a 24h time frame, if the goal is inclusion in future GIMP releases.
This sounds rather like something one would introduce into the gimp-print plug-in, which is part of the gutenprint packages. GIMP itself aims for basic printing support, leaving anything beyond this to more specialized applications.
This feature description is rather generic, and I doubt that anything large can be done in 24h. One of the things that might be done is speed improvements in GEGL, which is the bottleneck right now.
Keep in mind that UI changes should be evaluated by our UI specialists. This is a process which may require multiple iterations, and sometimes even a development release just to see how the changes work out. Doubtful that this goes together with a 24h time frame.
For anything more fancy than the three options, you can create a greyscale image and use this as your brush. Using SVG as brushes had been discussed as a possible GSoC project, but discarded. If someone knows what to do, writing a new brush class might be manageable in a 24h time frame.
Doing this right might take more than 24h. Maybe if someone has a specification ready before starting to code, it might be possible.
Seems to be more than one feature request wrapped into this entry. In Bugzilla, we close this as invalid. Let's focus on the title: this is what GEGL is capable of. But moving the internal representation of an image in GIMP to a gegl-based one is not something for a 24h time frame.
For this to happen, you'll have to work on GTK+, not GIMP. See http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx/ for the results of the initial effort, and the TODOs still left. Some of them might be suitable for a 24h time frame.
The big challenge I see here is the user interaction. If a specification for this is available, then a 24h time frame might be reasonable.

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