Just two show you there are lots and lots of ways to "skin a cat" in Inkscape, here's one more example. 

Used the pattern along path with lots of nodes and a negative offset to achieve the overlapped look.  The broke apart/ungrouped and adjust the fills one by one. 

Have fun!

On 5/21/07, Valcke Cédric <cvalcke@...206...> wrote:
Hi both,

Thank you very much for those wonderful examples.

It is exactly what I wanted to do and I learned a new tool (masks) on
Inkscape.

Cheers

john cliff a écrit :
> You can do something like it fairly easily with blur and masks, quick
> and dirty go is attached, took about 10 minutes of playing and thats
> including the really quick and dirty one I did but wasnt going to let
> anyone else see :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Sim
>
>
>
>
> On 5/21/07, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...12...> wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Cédric Valcke wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Does somebody know how I could make such a thing
>> > http://www.digitalz.org/images/circle_arrow.gif (linear gradient on the
>> > arrows) with inkscape ?
>>
>> What I did in the attached was:
>>
>> - draw a circle
>> - change it to a path
>> - select all nodes then add nodes
>> - break the path at each node (*)
>> - 'break apart' the paths to make separate objects
>> - set the end markers on all the paths to arrowheads
>> - convert strokes to paths (path menu)
>> - union the now detached arrow heads with the line parts
>> - add gradients - don't think there's any way around doing
>>    those one by one
>>
>> You'll need to split one of the arrows so its tail can be under the
>> preceeding arrow while its head is above the tail of the next.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> (*) breaking a path at its nodes currently you have to do one node
>> at a time, there's an active bug report that when fixed should allow
>> you do break them all at once.
>>
>> Cheers -Terry
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
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