Re: [PATCHES] Re: Harp Pedals?

[Carl D. Sorensen]

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" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 2008/8/29 Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>:
>> 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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