Re: Talk on radial gradients

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:

> On Aug 23, 2009, at 11:18 am, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
>  Third, and this is something I'm not completely sure on yet but think
>> is probably important, you should be able to specify elliptical
>> shapes.
>>
>
> I agree, but FYI elliptical shapes are not supported by Core Graphics on
> Mac,
> so there may be significant impediments to implementation.


You can draw elliptical radial gradients with CG by setting up a transform
before drawing the gradient. Anyone with a graphics subsystem capable of
handling SVG should be able to handle this.

Rob
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