- From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:08:17 +0400
- To: www-svg@w3.org
On 7/14/10, Dave Crossland wrote: > I also have a better idea along the same line: Spiro splines. > http://www.levien.com/spiro/ and HTML Canvas demo at > http://fontly.com/sandbox/spiro.html If the patent on Spiro could be > put through the W3C policy grinder, wouldn't that be great - Inkscape > already supports it as a Live Path Effect. Spiro-like curves as part of SVG would be a huge step forward, especially for Inkscape users who do illustrations and type design. The problem with existing implementation of Spiro in Inkscape is that it is implemented as a live path effect, and LPEs have a significant disadvantage: you never see what you created until you stop drawing. This badly affects both Spiro Spline and Pattern Along Path effects which, being artistic effects, are supposed to be interactive. Another real problem with Spiro as LPE is that you can't apply boolean operations. There is a badly working LPE for boolean operations that is currently not built by default, does only few simple operations, crashing Inkscape half the time anyway and is conceptually clumsy. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
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