Re: is there a plan to develop SVG pattern to incorporate non-repeating patterns? from Cameron McCormack on 2011-10-16 (www-svg@w3.org from October 2011)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:14:06 -0700
To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
CC: jonathan chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btconnect.com>, www-svg@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E9A3DEE.6040004@mcc.id.au>

jonathan chetwynd:
>> is there a plan to develop SVG pattern to incorporate non-repeating
>> patterns?

Charles Pritchard:
> There's a plan to include <canvas> support in SVG, which would enable
> you to generate non-repeating patterns.
>
> Doing so in SVG would require a bit of scripting management, or
> otherwise creating a large image buffer (of necessary pixels).
> It's not as elegant as a declarative form, but it'd work.

Yeah, my feeling is that this is a little too specialised to have native 
support for.

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