did nobody ever teach you the "vector is better than raster" lesson? etc
Also - a gradient at, say 31degrees is not possible using an image unless you make an image for the whole screen and dump it - not exactly a cross-system approach as we all have different desktop resolutions. Surely you can also see that "X degrees, colour 1 Y, colour 2 Z" is slightly more compact than a full screen image ;) A Chady Kassouf wrote: > > On 7/31/06, *The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > for tweening transitions. this is tough. if start and end > gradients dont have > the same control points (number, position) what do you do? do you > try and merge > control points? or do you do a merged overlay of all control > points so the > intermediat grad is a superset of all control points (exact > duplicates removed) > and then just linear interp the colors of these control points > (and calculate > their rgba from their appropriate positions in the start and end > grdients). i > would say that is what you want... :) > > > > Well, I'm not really familiar with graphics programming concepts, but > I do wonder what is it about gradients that makes them so important to > calculate (as opposed to just using an image) > > Yes, I know that calculated gradients will scale better than an image > ever will, but I don't see a really compelling reason to use gradients > instead of images from a user perspective. > > It's far easier to just open a graphics editor, select the gradient > tool and create an image, as opposed to worrying about control points > and directions and whatnot. > > Can someone please explain to me what is so good about having evas > create the gradients? > > > -- > Chady 'Leviathan' Kassouf > http://chady.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
