Hi Jairo, thank you for the suggestion.
> Am 11.05.2021 um 14:56 schrieb Jairo A. del Rio <jairoadelr...@gmail.com>: > > For simple pens, you may define your own (section 9.7 of MetaPost manual). Unfortunately, pens don’t work as patterns but only as outlines. > For complicated strokes, something along these lines could be useful as a > starting point (I'm not taking cyclic paths in consideration, btw). I did > something similar with duck footprints some weeks ago: > > %Sorry for the ugly code... > \starttext > \startMPpage > %Unit size > numeric u; u := 1mm; > > %In a picture you are able to include everything, kinda > picture Pluma; > Pluma := image( > for i = 1 upto 5: > for j = 1 upto 5: > draw (i,j) randomized 1; > endfor > endfor > ); Unfortunately, that’s the same pattern over and over. The randomization is only applied once. Good for footprints, bad for fuzzy patterns. > %Simple curve > path Camino; > Camino := origin for i = 1 upto 30: .. (u*i, u*sind (12i mod 360)) endfor; > > %Strokes > for i = 0 step 1/2 until length Camino: > draw Pluma rotated (90 + angle direction i of Camino) > shifted point i of Camino; > endfor Since I have more or less straight lines but of different length, the "one pattern per 1/n path segment" doesn’t work for me. I could try to construct my paths differently. Hraban ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
