On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 12:45 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine<alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
One thing that is preying on my mind for a while is whether context aware scaling could actually work for vector graphics.
This has been used for a long time - see all those Affect buttons for rounded corners, stroke width, etc. All they are different aspects of "context sensitivity" for transformations.
There is a researcher in Israel that has done a lot of work on this, specifically in dealing with fonts. The idea being to have Asian fonts that don't have as many size scale better. The results were impressive. It looks like most of the techniques that he's using could be applied to vector graphics, but the thing that he doesn't take into account at all is color. Which I think adds another dimension to the issue.
I don't remember the name of the guy off hand, but it's the same guy that did the research behind what eventually became the Liquid Rescale plugin in GIMP. I exchanged some e-mails with him, but I think I was unable to convince him to put a grad student or two on the vector graphics problem. I need some grad students :)
--Ted