Greetings!

I do not specifically find a problem in using the site; I’m just a total noobie; entering the community for the first time.

I was briefly introduced to SVG by a friend and Inkscape looked like a good startingpoint to seeing wheter I might find it plausible for myself to learn how to use. I’m using a 2009 iMac, so I got a older version that runs in it.

Atleast now at the beginning of my journeying with Inkscape I have one specific task I look to pull thru with using Inkscape and I believe this specific task might work best for me learning the program, finding its features. And so I will explain to you my task I look to solve, which task infact might turn up to become very good tutorial material one day, as it’s quite quirky, so to put it!

I happened to stumble upon a mathematical feature, a natural mathematical rule: when examining the mathematics of drumkit -playing and counting what my limbs would be doing. I started researching that mathematical rule and came up with an axiom and wanted to make an abstract simple illustration on it for using it in describing the rule I had found. The rule is quite amazing in it how it looks like it was completely unknown and there are no sources to read about it from. And yet it is among the simplest things imaginable. Then it is definitely worth publishing it for this particular reason and I have written a description of the rule in proper tongue and listed the things that build it up to make a ”paper” and that would profit from having a good quality SVG image of the abstract sketch I made to represent the rule in its entireity as an image, which takes us to why I am contacting thee :)

I took time to perfect the graphic I could use to represent the mathematical rule I found and have so far managed to make just a bmp. -image of it using ms Paint, and look to turn that raster image into a vector image so I could print shirts and brodaire caps and also to print posters etc., have it made inside of a glassball by lazer, and what not!

My friend attempted, had a go, on trying to directly convert my 72mb bmp. file into a vector image but with the image having a resolution where its size is like over 1 meter and its made with the smallest brush in ms paint: Illustrator didn’t do anything to that bmp. -image. And neighter did Inkscape. So I’m left with creating a completely new version of the design in SVG from scratch. And with experience with the Commodore 64 ”Koala Painter” and ”Ms Paint” in PC with Windows plus just a hinch of Photoshop in PC; I didn’t immediately come up with how to start making a SVG accurately using Inkscape. I couldn’t come up with how to find out the ”fineness” of the canvas and how to measure what I’d be doing. I allready now realize Inkscape might have the option of having a cubical map on the canvas that allowed me to keep track of the measurements in the lines I’d be drawing. The picture I’m working on would require me to be able to keep track of distances between ends of lines and to calculate them to have even distances from each other compared to each other. Just like if I was drawing pixels that I could count for measure.

And so then I didn’t immediately come up with where to look for the advice in the forums and ended up deciding to message you on this.

In all its simplicity the picture I need to draw is about a circle divided into a decagon so it looks like a pizza that’s sliced. The lines crossing the circle would be numbered with numbers from 0-9 chronologically, and then it would have lines drawn between chosen numbers, sometimes 10, sometimes 5, sometimes just 2 numbers; altogether 100 pieces of such sets of lines, and they form a great picture when drawn precicely enough according to the composition I came up with.

Any suggestions to how I could learn the means of making it a reality I could manage to make this picture become reality as SVG?

Just now I was inable to upload the bitmap image of that work I have made as my smartphone is running out of memory and its file was too large for my phone to upload it to a folder in my phone from which it was possible to upload it to my Inkscape account.

However I can later send it to you forexample if you wanted to take a look to get what sort of needs I have incase my verbal description left anything open? If that’s a possibility? Untill that you can see a gouache -painting I made: that I uploaded on my newly created Inkscape -account by the username: ”JanneHelin”! It is not this same image I described in this message, but gives to you a sense of my style.

Looking forward to finding out wheter I could learn how to turn my dream picture into a vector graphic,

With good spirit, Janne Valtteri Helin

P.s. I also want to learn: how to change the colour of made lines in Inkscape and how to have a image underneath a canvas so I could draw: on it for guidelines, and in the end remove that image underneath to be left with what I drawed over it.