- From: Stephen Hay <haymail@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:58:02 +0100
- To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
- Cc: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
> I think it would be better to call this an angle gradient instead of > conical. In Photoshop it is indeed often referred to as angle gradient (and this is technically correct), although most designers I know understand the term "conical". I actually think conical best describes what the gradient does visually. > Conical gradients are just a special case of a radial gradient where the > midpoint of start and ending circle is different. > This seems like an edge case. Neither SVG or Illustrator implement such a > construct so it must not be that common. I would call that a hasty generalization. Photoshop *does* implement it, so making a similar generalization one could argue that since there are more Photoshop users, it is very common. > There has been a discussion on adding mesh gradients to SVG which would > allow you to emulate a angle gradient. This is indeed how they are emulated in Illustrator. Regards, Stephen Hay
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