On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:33:03 +0200 "Chady Kassouf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On 7/31/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[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? i agree in general too - but if someone is willing to put first-class gradient objs into edje - well... mayaswell use it :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
