Doug NIce work on the regular polygons. They would be especially useful for me in to use in patterns and as a way to do tessellations and tiling. (If anyone on the list don't realize that these go way beyond M.C Escher, look at the examples, especially Japanese and Islamic, on this site: http://library.thinkquest.org/16661/gallery/index.html )
One other, maybe naive, question - how hard would it be to merge 3 hexagons into a diaper shape, so they could be used in SVG very econmically. Here is an Flash animation using them so you will know what shape I am talking about: http://www.courses.psu.edu/art/art003_jxm22/animationsample.html Jerry One other question At 10:24 PM 2/5/2005, you wrote: >Hi, Jerry- > >Jerrold Maddox wrote: >| >| Doug >| >| Thanks for your long and thoughtful responses. > >Probably with too much 'long' and not enough 'thoughtful'. ;) > > >| I agree about adding triangles and would really like to see >| then added to the spec. >| Ditto for regularPoly ( I am not sure if this should be in >| place of the triangles or not - the detail you suggest for >| triangles makes me think they should stand alone.) > >I see them as different use cases. Just because you can draw a circle a >dozen or so ways in SVG (as was recently proved on this list) doesn't mean >that there shouldn't be a circle element. I think that both the regular >polygon and the triangle should be supported, and there is some indication >that 1.3 will concentrate again on graphical features. (Though I'm >personally glad of all the neat WebApp features in 1.2). > > >| And yes, these things couldn't be added until SVG 1.3 or >| after so my request is either too late or too early. > >Too early, at this point. I've summarized this idea, and made a little >script that takes the proposed regularPoly and draws them using polygon >elements. I haven't yet done the 'rotation' bit, but I'm convinced this idea >has merit, and I'll suggest it to the WG post-1.2. > ><http://svg-whiz.com/experiments.html#basicShapes>http://svg-whiz.com/experiments.html#basicShapes > > >| But what i am really interested in is keeping the proportions >| when relative sizes are used - I posted a suggestion earlier >| that something like x="10%" y="x(0.5)", so that y would >| always be half of x regardless for the proportions of the >| field they are in. > >Yes, lots of us really love this idea. > > >| The square is just a simple version of that which looks like >| it would be easy to do since it would be like the circle . >| >| How I face this day to day is that i work on a Mac with a >| cinema display (9x16) and on a PC with display in >| conventional proportions >| (4x5) and when use the full screen the relatively size >| images aren't consistent in shape. >| >| If there is another way to make them consistent, I would love >| to know about it. > >I agree that there needs to be better support for relative positioning and >sizing, and I think Cameron's idea is the best thought out. > >Regards- >Doug > >doug . schepers @ vectoreal.com >www.vectoreal.com ...for scalable solutions. > > > > >----- >To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-or- >visit ><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers > >and click "edit my membership" >---- > > > >---------- >Yahoo! Groups Links > * To visit your group on the web, go to: > * > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ > > > * > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > * > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the > <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
