23 Jun
2007
23 Jun
'07
5:40 p.m.
Hi,
If there's to be a dedicated engraving tool, the following links are very interesting. They involve methods of automatic engraving in the field of non-photorealistic rendering. One method uses Bezier patches to determine line direction. If mesh gradients get established in Inkscape, then this would be another use for the meshes: engraving bucket fill!
http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=237287&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&a... http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~ostrom/publications/pdf/SIGGRAPH99_FacialEngrav... http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~ostrom/publications/abstracts.html
Tom ----------- http://www.laidout.org http://www.tomlechner.com