Hi Doug and Jerry I talked about the basic shapes for map symbols in Tokyo. The idea was the same like Doug mentioned: Use a regular polygon and a pie slice as basic shapes to build your own map symbol. The (very basic) prototype is available under www.oschnabel.gmxhome.de/mapsymbolbrewer/prototyp/index.svg
Just my 2 cents. Regards Olaf Doug Schepers wrote: > Hi, Jerry- > > Jerrold Maddox wrote: > | > | 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. > > Yes, I can see how regular polygons, in combination with clipPath, could > make some very cool tesslations. > > Mind you, you can do that now, you just have to calculate the shapes by hand > (or with a graphical editor). > > | (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 > > In SVG1.2, this would be doable, since you will be able to use VectorEffects > to make a single outline stroke for all 3 of the hexagons. However, that may > be overkill... You can do that right now using a polygon (again, calced by > hand), and it would be less computationaly expensive. > > 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 and click "edit my > membership" > ---- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- Olaf Schnabel Department of Cartography Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) ETH Hoenggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland phone: ++41 44 633 3031 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel ----- 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/
