Re: Proposal: <star> element

I actually started with a inner+outer radius approach, but finding a way to
support both regular and non-regular star shapes got messy and complicated.
 So I went with a simplified approach that still allowed a large range of
commonly used shapes and also supported both the poly-gon and poly-gram
star forms.

Paul



On 10 March 2014 05:38, Gavin Kistner <phrogz@me.com> wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Paul LeBeau <paul.lebeau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My draft definition for a new <star> element can be found here:
>
> http://paullebeau.com/svg2/star/star.html
>
>
> The 'density' attribute seems mathematically sound, but not
> artist-friendly. As with Adobe Illustrator, I'd prefer an 'inner-radius'
> (or other name) instead, specifying an arbitrary radius at which the 'half'
> points touch. The only problem with this is that it makes pure polygons
> basically impossible to create with an explicit value. You could solve this
> by having the default value be some empty sigil that indicates a polygon,
> or you could do what Illustrator does: separate the use cases for stars
> from the use case for polygons.
>
>