Re: [artworks] Pseudo Blended Letter - C
- From: Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:44:59 +0100
In message <52f965c610riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A recently published Vectortuts tutorial featured a superbly rendered
> circular blend in the shape of a letter "S". A simplified version can
> be created in ArtWorks by drawing multiple circles to form a 1/4
> circle section. These can be flipped to make the letter (example a "C")
> but takes quite a long time.
> http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~riscos/problems/c.png
> If Blends could be made to follow a curved path a process like this
> would be greatly simplified. I wonder if this would be feasible in a
> future ArtWorks release?
Blends are very powerful since you can have arbitrary shapes at either
end, and blends can have multiple stages, so allowing users to also
specify a trajectory path would be quite an advanced feature. In the
above example, you use blends in a very specific way: the shapes at
either end are identical. So, I wonder whether you would not be better
off with an extension to replications instead of blends? That is much
more likely to become a feature one day. Replications along a path
have been on my wish list for a long time.
Martin
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