If you think about it , the blender painting tool, implemented in inkscape, would be exactly like a bitmap editing feature. Nodes would be like pixels. I am assuming a rectangular grid here, I am not sure what will be the usecase of other kinds of grids while painting.<br>

<br>I am not completely disavowing painting, I think there is lots of potential in the painting idea :).<br><br>I think if the gradient mesh can interact with the tweak tool it will give artists some interesting options.<br>

<br>We should definitely push for Types 3, 4 and 5. ( Hopefully a quadrilateral gradient too ? as per paper <a href="http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/publications/papers/quadrendering.pdf">http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/publications/papers/quadrendering.pdf</a> ).<br>

<br>We should also push for types 6 and 7, if possible after figuring out an unique way to disambiguate things ( colors always show through ? )<br><br>BTW, does SVG have an &quot;extension&quot; system where an application can put its own data, that is outside the standard and other applications might not understand ? That can be another way of putting our own stuff in before SVG approves it.<br>

<br>Thanks<br>-Sid <br>