On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:31:12PM -0500, dwain.alford@...155... wrote:
Paul Elliott wrote:
I would like to draw something as a flat surface, and then put it on the ground and have inkscape figure out how to do the distortion.
you don't draw?
No, I don't draw that well, but that is not the point.
Anyone (including me) can create a perfect pentagram (all you need is staight edge a compass and remember your math class), but many would find it difficult to put that perfect pentagram on a corn flake box sitting katty wampus to the viewer.
But since you can draw, you can draw the Mona Lisa. But you might have dificulty putting that Mona Lisa on a corn flake box if it is sitting katy wampus to the viewer.
All I am really asking for is the transformation.
I can draw all the perspective lines I need to determine the transformation on an invisible layer that I erase later.
Let me have a rectangle, and let me say that the four corners of the rectangle now map to these four courners of a rombus, let the computer figure out how to move the other points.
This is the kind of calculation computers were designed to do.
From there, I can figure out the rest.