Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Automatic engraving?
On 6/21/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote:
See attached .jpg - my thought is that if you could just cover a picture with some uniform paths (made from stroke to path) and then have thick/thinning applied to them across a regular grid (red dots) you could make these engraved style pics with a lot of complexity and detail very quickly and easily. Obviously my example's just a simple mock up.
I like the idea. All that needs to be done is to combine the trace-background code and the thinning/thickening code. Should not be too difficult to do.
The only problem is, with this addition the thinning/thickening functionality certainly breaks the envelope of the Calligraphy tool. It needs at least one more keyboard modifier and some toolbar controls, which simply won't fit into this already overloaded tool. So I'm thinking about breaking this functionality into a tool of its own, for example Shape Morph, which would give me more room to develop it further. Also it will hopefully improve the visibility of this functionality - it seems to me it wasn't noticed enough so far, although it's extremely useful in a lot of ways (not only for engraving, of course).
So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar?
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:50:06 -0300, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar?
Not as such -- the only problem is space, and what progress JonCruz may have made on making the toolbar shrinkable.
-mental
On Jun 22, 2007, at 9:55 AM, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:50:06 -0300, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar?
Not as such -- the only problem is space, and what progress JonCruz may have made on making the toolbar shrinkable.
I'm getting closer on that...
... however in the meantime there is a work-around. There is a preference setting (though not in the UI, I think) that will make the left/main toolbar use smaller icons.
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jun 22, 2007, at 9:55 AM, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:50:06 -0300, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400... mailto:buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar?
Not as such -- the only problem is space, and what progress JonCruz may have
made on making the toolbar shrinkable.
I'm getting closer on that...
... however in the meantime there is a work-around. There is a preference setting (though not in the UI, I think) that will make the left/main toolbar use smaller icons.
That's good. The extra button height would not affect anyone on a desktop, but anyone with a wxga-format laptop is already near the height limit.
bob
bulia byak wrote:
On 6/21/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote:
See attached .jpg - my thought is that if you could just cover a picture with some uniform paths (made from stroke to path) and then have thick/thinning applied to them across a regular grid (red dots) you could make these engraved style pics with a lot of complexity and detail very quickly and easily. Obviously my example's just a simple mock up.
I like the idea. All that needs to be done is to combine the trace-background code and the thinning/thickening code. Should not be too difficult to do.
The only problem is, with this addition the thinning/thickening functionality certainly breaks the envelope of the Calligraphy tool. It needs at least one more keyboard modifier and some toolbar controls, which simply won't fit into this already overloaded tool. So I'm thinking about breaking this functionality into a tool of its own, for example Shape Morph, which would give me more room to develop it further. Also it will hopefully improve the visibility of this functionality - it seems to me it wasn't noticed enough so far, although it's extremely useful in a lot of ways (not only for engraving, of course).
So, any objections to me adding one more button to the main toolbar?
No objection here to either a tool of it's own (which sounds pretty handy) or the one more button. :-)
-Josh
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MenTaLguY