Re: [Gimp-developer] Unified transform tool

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Grosberg
Ofnuts ofnuts at laposte.net writes: The spec for the scaling, when using the from centre constraint, says translate the opposite side by the same distance which implies that the centre is equidistant to both sides and thus is still the centre defined above. An arbitrary fixed point would

Re: [Gimp-developer] Unified transform tool

2011-04-17 Thread Michael Grosberg
Ofnuts ofnuts at laposte.net writes: Symmetry mode is not well defined... In your drawing, you drag on top-right and the top-left follows (vertical axis), but it could as well have been the bottom-right (horizontal axis), and even the bottom-left (radial). As I did mention, it was not a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Unified transform tool

2011-04-17 Thread Ofnuts
On 04/17/2011 08:31 AM, Michael Grosberg wrote: Ofnutsofnutsat laposte.net writes: Symmetry mode is not well defined... In your drawing, you drag on top-right and the top-left follows (vertical axis), but it could as well have been the bottom-right (horizontal axis), and even the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Unified transform tool

2011-04-16 Thread Ofnuts
On 04/16/2011 04:13 PM, Michael Grosberg wrote: There has been some interest among the GSOC applicants to work on the unified transform tool.there already exists a very original specification for this tool. But I have some reservations about the transform frame being a bit too complex. I

[Gimp-developer] Unified transform tool

2011-04-16 Thread Ayush Goyal
I agree with Michael that the design in the proposed specification although looks cool , it can be complex for first time users. Having said that I personally like the original specification as it is more clean and efficient once understood. Inkscape has a more easy approach to this but it