Node sculpting kind of does that, yes, but it isn't quite the same.
Here is a link to the Blender wiki to give some idea of what I am talking about. Admittedly, this is 3D, but it has the gist of the idea.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Basic_Animation/Lattice
And a somewhat older link
http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x10279.html
As you perhaps can see, the whole model is selected. I am guessing that each node in the lattice has a certain "sphere of influence" and whatever mesh vertices that are inside a given sphere are affected proportionally.
--- Richard Querin <rfquerin@...155...> wrote:
On 5/30/07, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote:
Feature idea.
Could this sort of an idea be adapted to Inkscape? Say you have some text, you convert it to a path, maybe add some nodes. Then you surround it with a box that has a user definable number of nodes per side. If you grab one of those nodes, and drag it, it reacts with a certain number of nodes in the text path, dragging them like a magnet.
With something like this, you could flex and bend an object however you wanted.
The node
sculptinghttp://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-Editing.html#Paths-Node-Sculptingfeature
of the node tool in the current release of Inkscape kind of does this. Although it's probably a little more detailed in it's operation than what you're after.
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