30 Mar
2006
30 Mar
'06
6:35 p.m.
One way to get a pretty life-like "rope" is this:
- read inkscape/doc/inkscape-shadow.README and set up the bitmap blurring filter using Imagemagick
- draw a calligraphy line with zero fixation
- alt+b to make a shadow for it
- put the shadow underneath the calligraphy stroke and displace a bit
- select both image and the stroke and do Object > Clip > Set (or in an old version, convert the image to pattern and intersect with the stroke).
The result is attached (the image is downsampled to conserve bandwidth).
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
