It would be a very useful feature to be able to select curve, linear, constant, etc for the sculpt tool.
For a nice implementation, check out Blender 3D's version - proportional editing:
https://youtu.be/4owQb020kbk?t=1m56s

Their options are:

random
constant
linear
sharp
root
sphere
smooth

Obviously, having the icons as Blender does helps a lot to see what the effect of a mode will be. :)

My 2p.

-C



On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Brynn <brynn@...3089...> wrote:
Hi Friends,
       When I first started using Inkscape, which was version 0.44, node sculpting had a different behavior than it has now.  I want to ask if it would it be possible to provide the previous behavior, as an option, perhaps using key modifier, or option on the control bar?
       I'll try to describe, with attached screenshot (sculpt2.png).  You can see that dragging the right end node, with Alt key results in the nodes wider apart in the middle, and closer together on the ends (no matter whether I dragged from the right or left side, the result is the same).
       I'm not sure exactly in which version this changed.  But previously, dragging the same right end node would result in nodes wider apart, the closer they are to the node being dragged. Since I can't show an example, imagine it's the same right end node, and it would behave much like a rubberband...or elastic string -- stretched more near where the force is applied, and less on the other end.  And so the nodes would be progressively closer together, the further they were away from the node being dragged.
       One thing I used to like to do, was find an end node of a spirogram. Select all nodes except the other end, then Alt + drag the first end, and it would unravel the spirogram from one end to the other.  One of the first images I ever made with Inkscape is also attached, the unravelled spirogram. You just can't do that anymore, with Inkscape, afaik.
       To be honest, I loved that old behavior and used it a lot.  I haven't found many uses for the current behavior.  I guess it can make a good bell curve.  But I think both behaviors are useful.
       Would it be possible to provide this optionally?  If so, I'd like to make that a feature request.  (Unless it already is??)

Thank you very much,
brynn

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