Re: [css3-transforms] interpolation of transform lists

On Jul 19, 2012, at 5:51 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 2012-07-19 16:54 -0700, Dirk Schulze wrote:
>> Do I understand your point correctly, that you just want the
>> affected transformation functions to get interpolated as matrices?
> 
> Yes, rather than forcing the entire list to be interpolated as a
> single matrix.

You're complicating the rules by doing this. If I have:

rotate(...) scale(...) translate(...)
scale(...) rotate(...) translate(...)

Do you do two separate matrix animations? Taking that to its logical conclusion, you could end up doing a dozen expensive matrix animations for a long list of unmatched primitives.

Or do you combine unmatching primitives next to each other? That might be a better approach, but it might get confusing for long primitive lists.

We also talked about adding an identity() primitive to make it easier to match up primitives. Identity() would match a primitive of any type. Was that ever done?

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~Chris Marrin
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