[chaoscope] Re: Using chaoscope in graphic design
- From: Chaoscope <chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:37:05 +0100
Hi Taylor, hello all,
I'd love to have fine-grained control over the gradients, like Photoshop
has. (Movable knots of color value along a slider, where you can change
the position and value of each point on the gradient curve.) I suspect
that Chaoscope's current system isn't quite the final draft of gradient
handling, though. It's like the lighting; it's there, if you fiddle
with the text files, it's manageable, but it's pretty much bare bones
functional.
A fully featured gradient editor will be included in 0.4.
Imagine how the users felt while using version 0.1 where you couldn't
even change the gradients!
And there's nothing wrong with that. It's still in development. I'd
rather have it in and functional than have to wait for it to be
perfectly UI friendly. ;D
But yes, I did find it a little odd that I couldn't control the knot
position along the gradient curve without cheating by putting more knots
(since they are apparently evenly spaced)... which defeats the purpose
sometimes. Even adding a fourth parameter from 0 to 1 giving the
position of that RGB value along the ramp would be a relatively simple
way to hack in that extra control. (And keep things pretty terse as Kay
notes.)
Gradient values are grouped by four in the project file, the first value
is the position of the color within the gradient, between 0 and 1,
leftmost and rightmost of the gradient respectively. The three following
values are the RGB components, normalized between 0 and 1 too. This is
explained in the fifth chapter of the manual.
Kind regards,
Nicolas Desprez
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