I've put together an oval-circle code that is less "pointy" than the ellipses. I've used two cubic bezier curves.
I think I don't want to push the changes until I get some concurrence from Reinhard and Francisco. I've attached a png output of the new code. What do you think? Carl On 8/29/08 11:43 AM, "Francisco Vila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/29 Reinhold Kainhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen: >>>> Some tests with inkscape show me that an ellipse >>>> (depending on the aspect ratio of the rectangle) could be a little too >>>> 'tall', but if the half-axes simply add a fixed amount in x and y to >>>> the width and height of the rectangle, it would leave a more >>>> controllable space in between (maybe it also would be faster to >>>> calculate) >> [...] >>> I think that Reinhold's idea of x-padding and y-padding is a good idea, >>> because it allows the user to change the aspect ratio of the ellipse if the >>> automatically generated one is not good. I will implement that idea by >>> tomorrow, if Reinhold has already done so. >> >> I've already implemented that last saturday with commit >> d462d4c7c356124edd1c0f1ef6037335669f30b5 >> Looking at the harp diagrams, I really did not like the ellipse, which was >> too >> high for my tast, but not wide enough,,, With different padding in x- and >> y-direction it looks okay now. > > That's what I meant: equal aspect ratios does not seem to be the goal, > but an optical robustness valid for high- and low- resolutions. > -- > Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) > http://www.paconet.org
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