Re: [Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-22 Thread Jim Michaels
I looked through all your links, and while Akima splines seem interesting, I think we would need some visual demonstration of their performance in the way they'd be used in GIMP (most likely, contour tracing to 'cut out' objects), before we could agree that they were an appropriate thing to

Re: [Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Jim Michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] sorry, my primary email is html (yahoo) email. yahoo mail has no options to send as text (no yahoo there). From: http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtips/qt/et_plain_text.htm To compose a text-only message in Yahoo!

Re: [Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-21 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 21:35 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: Akima spline curves give drawing freedom, at least some kind of interpolating spline curve where you can just simply lay the points down and the curve follows along the points How do these compare to Spiro curves

Re: [Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-21 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Jim Michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please send only plain-text mail to this list. HTML mail annoys people here. Akima spline curves give drawing freedom, at least some kind of interpolating spline curve where you can just simply lay the points down and

Re: [Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM, David Gowers wrote: 4. Add the 'spiro' live effect to the path. In fact, you can just draw Spiro curves with Pen or Pencil from the very beginning ;-) Alexandre ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-21 Thread Simon Budig
Jim Michaels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Akima spline curves give drawing freedom, at least some kind of interpolating spline curve where you can just simply lay the points down and the curve follows along the points - I have a hard time getting bezier curves to do what I want. It's like Alice

[Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-20 Thread Jim Michaels
Akima spline curves give drawing freedom, at least some kind of interpolating spline curve where you can just simply lay the points down and the curve follows along the points - I have a hard time getting bezier curves to do what I want. It's like Alice in wonderland using a flamingo for a