On 05/24/2018 10:23 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2018 21:01:59 +0200
> Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> dir seems magic to me. I don’t understand how it works, not even how
>> it can be used for drawing not having an origin.
>
> All MP drawings have an origin (0,0).
I thought origin had
On 05/24/2018 09:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> [...]
> reusing a picture is more efficient
>
> \startMPpage
> draw fullcircle scaled (.06TextWidth - .05LineHeight);
> picture t ; t := textext("\cldcontext{utf.char(0xEB09)}") ;
> for m=1 step 2 until 10 :
> path s ; s := (dir3
On Thu, 24 May 2018 21:01:59 +0200
Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> dir seems magic to me. I don’t understand how it works, not even how
> it can be used for drawing not having an origin.
All MP drawings have an origin (0,0).
(dir angle) returns a pair on a unit circle surrounding the origin, i.e.
(cos
On 5/24/2018 9:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
picture t ; t := textext("\Ux{EB09}")
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On 5/24/2018 9:01 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Dear Alan,
I have the following sample (as I wrote, this is addictive ;-)):
\startMPpage
draw fullcircle scaled (.06TextWidth - .05LineHeight);
for m=1 step 2 until 10 :
path s ; s := (dir30--dir150--dir315--dir90--dir225--cycl
Dear Alan,
I have the following sample (as I wrote, this is addictive ;-)):
\startMPpage
draw fullcircle scaled (.06TextWidth - .05LineHeight);
for m=1 step 2 until 10 :
path s ; s := (dir30--dir150--dir315--dir90--dir225--cycle)
scaled m;
n := (m * 50) ;
