- From: Nathan Summers <rockwalrus@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:19:59 -0400
- To: www-svg@w3.org
I'm surprised that SVG doesn't have gradients that are shaped according to a path. I've found that this type of gradient fill is useful for a variety of effects. I'm thinking specifically of what is produced by GIMP's gradient tool in the "shaped" modes. The path is filled by the gradient, where the color at an interior point is based on the shortest distance to the path. The most natural way to extend this to SVG is to create a shapedGradient paint server that takes a linearGradient and a path. Since this opens the opportunity for one shape to be filled with a gradient shaped entirely differently, the shaped gradient opperation needs to be defined outside of the path. What makes sense is for the reflect and repeat modes to be based on the shortest distance to the path, while pad mode fills the area outside of the shape with the terminal color. Nathan Summers
Received on Monday, 27 June 2005 03:41:56 UTC