Hi all,
Because my GSoC student had no progress at the midterm evaluation deadline, I decided to fail him for GSoC. But since I was screaming so loud at LGM that this summer we would have a PowerStroke LPE, I couldn't escape coding it myself. Too bad, I should have applied for GSoC as a student myself...
For those interested: I think the PowerStroke LPE is ready for some playing and testing. You have to build Inkscape 0.48+devel with experimental LPEs enabled. [1]
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.49#PowerStroke
http://imgh.us/powerstroke-ell.png
Cusp nodes behave funny. To see clearly what happens, you have to apply a stroke to the path, and no fill. I do not yet know whether I am going to take the effort to properly handle cusp nodes... ;)
I know it is buggy, so please only mail *ideas* for improvement, etc.
thanks! Johan
[1] You have to build Inkscape with "#define LPE_ENABLE_TEST_EFFECTS", otherwise the LPE won't show in the LPE dialog. (uncommenting line 9 in src/live_effects/effect.cpp will do the trick)