Olaf Very well done - good subtle touches like the use of opacity for the shapes, the color choices overall and the varied use of letter spacing.
One question, a dumb one, is where can I find the exported SVG as a symbol definition? - all I see is the Alert box. Jerry >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>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>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>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>http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel > > >----- >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/
