Re: How about a Calligraphy-based Font Designer program

["moayyad sadi" <alsadi at gmail dot com>]

the code file I sent is very small it's just a single function that init gtk+
create a window then add a canvas to it which is a single closed path
that simple

but it don't work,




On 1/3/08, moayyad sadi <alsadi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> This message is sent again
>
> Here is my idea
> the attached image file shows 4 points
> 2 points; i:initial and f:final
> 2 control points; c1 c2
> and I show an example two points in blue
>
> each point is a vector of [x y w a]
> x,y coords
> w with of the pen ie. radius
> a angle of the pen
>
> each component P should follow this formula
> P(t)=P1.(t)^3  +3.P2.(t)^2.(1-t) +3.P3.(t).(1-t)^2  +P4.(1-t)^3
> where P1 and P4 are the component of i and f
> and P2 and P3 are the components of the control points
>
> t is the time from 0-1
> 0 gives the initial point and 1 gives the final point
>
> of course we won't be applying it to x and y because the library could do
> that
>
> we will apply it only to w and a
>
> in Arabic Calligraphy w is fixed we only have to care about the angle a
>
> a(t)=ai. t^3 + 3. ac1 . t^2 ..etc.
>
> for any given t we could find a
> and for any random point on the curve we could find t
>
> I'm planning to use GTK+ on C or python
> gnome-concave or cairo or whatever
>
> to generate the region polygon we only have to move from
> each point with the given width (or radius) and angle
> then link the two curves with a line
> (a line is a curve having it's c1 as i and c2 same as f)
>