Re: Proposal: <star> element

Does anyone have any objections to me trying to get this proposal added to
the agenda of the next meeting?

I'm not entirely clear what the recommended procedure is.  Can I just sign
up for a wiki account and add it to the agenda page myself?  Or is it
normal to discuss it until a member likes it enough to add it themselves? :)

Paul



On 12 March 2014 02:15, Paul LeBeau <paul.lebeau@gmail.com> wrote:

> Even without the inner radius setting, you can still produce a vast array
> of star variants.  Here are a few more samples:
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> http://paullebeau.com/svg2/star/star04.svg
> http://paullebeau.com/svg2/star/star05.svg
> http://paullebeau.com/svg2/star/star06.svg
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> It is really only the star forms with very small inner radii that you
> can't reproduce.  I don't think that would be a huge loss.
> Editors like Inkscape that have a feature for producing these sort of
> shapes will probably generate the paths themselves
> anyway and not use any new element.  I see it primarily as a useful tool
> for people hand editing SVG or using libraries
> like d3.
>
> Or perhaps these extreme stars could be created using a different new
> element that generated shapes with rotational
> and axial symmetry.
>
> As for rounding, I considered it also, but excluded it for simplicity.
>  Also because I have a desire for a stroke/path effects
> feature that would be more general.  Something like Android's
> CornerPathEffect<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/CornerPathEffect.html>
> .
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> Paul
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> On 12 March 2014 00:53, Tavmjong Bah <tav.w3c@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 06:47 +1300, Paul LeBeau wrote:
>> > I actually started with a inner+outer radius approach, but finding a
>> > way to support both regular and non-regular star shapes got messy and
>> > complicated.  So I went with a simplified approach that still allowed
>> > a large range of commonly used shapes and also supported both the
>> > poly-gon and poly-gram star forms.
>> >
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>> I like the idea of 'density' but I do thing users will want to change
>> the inner/outer radius.
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>> Inkscape has a star/polygon tool that stores parameters in the Inkscape
>> name space. The star/polygon get's exposed as a path.
>>
>> The parameters are:
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>>   * number of sides
>>   * center x
>>   * center y
>>   * r1
>>   * r2
>>   * arg1
>>   * arg2
>>   * flat sided (polygon) or star shaped
>>   * roundedness
>>   * randomness
>>
>> You can see the effect of some of these parameters at:
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>>         http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Shapes-Stars.html
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>> The SVG WG has talked about a star/polygon element many times, but no
>> one got around to spec-ing it out. Maybe this will get it done.
>>
>> Tav
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