Re: Support for brushes

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote:
>
> >> Just a quick note from end-user dept. LPEs are limiting in a way that
> >> they impose single style for the output path. That's not too bad for
> >> the PAP effect (contrary to e.g. Interpolation). However, for real,
> >> usable brushes you would want to read input device characteristics
> >> such as pen pressure and velocity, and affect color, opacity etc. In
> >> terms of SVG markup that would mean storing style for each copy of a
> >> brush primitive
> >
> > ah, true bristle brushes.
>
> Oh, not really. What I'm talking about is a fairly generic brush
> engine. AFAIK, what's typically referred to as bristle brushes
> involves physical modeling and other kinds of heavy calculations.
>

yes, they're harder to implement but their markup is probably similar.
I think we can start with something basic and make sure that it is a good
foundation.


>
> > Those are certainly very useful, but HARD to implement! The markup for
> those
> > will also be tough since as you mention you'd have to store all that
> extra
> > information alongside the path.
>
> Saving style settings would suffice. OTOH, a convergence with
> http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/ could be interesting.
>
>
Did anyone implement InkML?