Re: [artworks] Variable width lines
- From: Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:29:10 +0000 (GMT)
In article <1f4aae3252.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <5232a86355riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Ashbery
> <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm doing a tutorial that features variable width lines
> > (Illustrator calls them variable width strokes). Using them gives
> > a greater depth of realism when drawing portraits because the
> > middle section of a curve can be made quite wide with the start
> > and finish ending in a sharp point.
> Yes, that is a nice feature, in particular in conjunction with a
> pressure sensitive tablet, which allows arbitrary pressure
> profiles, but even without a table ArtWorks could still offer a
> list of fixed pressure profiles as Xara Designer does.
I thought you would approve :-)
> > Can such a feature be incorporated into ArtWorks or is it just
> > too processor intensive?
> Variable width lines are not computationally intensive, so
> processing power would not be an issue, but that would be quite a
> major new feature, so I cannot say if/when it will appear in
> ArtWorks.
You're next Wakefield release perhaps ;-)
All the best
Richard
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