On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:43:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> To: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> Cc: Inkscape ML inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Inkscape Users List inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Tile clones
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 05:37:52 -0500 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Inkscape ML inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Inkscape Users List inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Tile clones
Before getting deep into the boring stuff planned for 0.41, I decided to do some eye candy...
http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles1.png http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles2.png
Wow!
I saw it again Wow! I'm massively impressed. That is some seriously sweet eyecandy.
- The new powerful "Tile clones" dialog implements all 17 plane
symmetry groups, allowing you to easily create all sorts of symmetric patterns, Escher-like tesselations, ornaments, etc. Since the pattern
Mmm tesselations. Are those kangaroos? http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.41-CVS-linux-tiles1.png
is made out of clones, you can freely edit the original tile and the entire pattern is updated live. This feature puts Inkscape into competition with software such as the free Arabeske
I looked it up, so in case anyone else is interested Arabeske Studio http://www.wozzeck.net/arabeske/ Freshmeat Project page for Arabeske http://freshmeat.net/projects/arabeske/
or commercial SymmetryWorks.
Artlandia Symmetry Works http://www.artlandia.com/products/SymmetryWorks/ http://share.studio.adobe.com/axAssetDetailSubmit.asp?aID=4694 http://www.computerarts.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=28...
I forgot to mention that Symmetry Works retails at USD $215.
I also forgot to congratulate Bulia on making the patterns I submitted to OpenClipart.org look utterly rubbish in comparison to this excellent piece of work. It takes a ridculously long time to make anything remotely close to this good if you try to put it together manually.
This feature is so cool that I'd love to see the plans for 0.41 released really soon with this feature and bump the rest of the roadmap up another number.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Inkscape is a vector graphics editor http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com