Re: [artworks] Pseudo Blended Letter - C
- From: Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:24:05 +0000 (GMT)
In article <d7946af952.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
Thats what I like about Blends in that they can be made to morph from
one object to another and colour graduations are subtle.
>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.
That sounds promising and something to look forward to.
> Martin
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