Re: Is there a formula for converting a linear gradient to a box-shadow? from Simon Sapin on 2013-01-31 (www-style@w3.org from January 2013)

From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:45:56 +0100
To: Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa@gmail.com>
CC: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, W3C CSS Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <510A2F44.8070409@kozea.fr>

Le 31/01/2013 00:50, Behrang Saeedzadeh a écrit :
> - And the question is: is there a formula for creating a box shadow that
> renders identical to a given linear gradient?

I think not, because there is no syntax to specify a different blur 
radius in the horizontal and vertical direction.

And even if you had that, a linear gradient to transparency and a box 
shadow that look similar are not quite the same. Their respective 
"profiles" would be a triangle (linear interpolation) and a bell curve 
(a Gaussian function.)

-- 
Simon Sapin

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