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Salut Jean-Marc,

glad you like it.
please tell me if you find an image where it does not work properly. I would be interested to see that.

Kind regards
Bernd

Nice work Bernd

I have no absolutely idea how I could use this, but irrespective of that, I appreciate it...

Hi Dave,

thank you.

I have no absolutely idea how I could use this

actually I mostly liked the idea. It was kind of a challenge that came up on the use-list. A bit like playing chess. Or "how to almost go BANANAS implementing an algorithm..."

Kind regards
Bernd

Hi Bernd,

Excellent work!
Did you have code to select and trace each part of an image?

For example, trace this image:
http://www.clker.com/cliparts/c/a/6/c/1 ... svg.hi.png
(from this page: http://www.clker.com/clipart-13748.html)

Just one leaf is traced.
How could we trace all parts of this image?
Thanks in advance!

Al

jmburnod wrote:It will be very useful for a shadow theater in which we work

Wayang?

bn wrote: actually I mostly liked the idea. It was kind of a challenge that came up on the use-list. A bit like playing chess. Or "how to almost go BANANAS implementing an algorithm..."

Ah I had almost forgotten about BANANAS, should have known they would return to strike again (lucky I didn't slip up on them). If this keeps up BANANAS will become the second most powerful word on this forum after CHEESE

Hi Dave,



Just don't change your tagline yet...

imagine replacing "coder" with the B-word...

That would certainly raise some eyebrows with the moderators.

Kind regards
Bernd

too late...

Boy, oh boy,

poor William Shakespeare



Bernd

for those who wonder what this Banana buisiness is all about: it refers to this thread
http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... nas#p92785

Richard,
A kind of Wayang with personage created by children to illustrate
some stories they write.

Bernd
I have done some tries with an image "fff" created with the LiveCode paint tools.
It works fine and will be very useful for our pratice which work with simple shapes.
http://www.alternatic.ch/jmb/devrev/Maax_walk.png

Resizing the graphic works well.
I suggest a Bernd's "smoothShape" script for the resizing
If Bernd didn't write this script before sunday we can use an "outer Glow" effect to get a kind of smoothed shape.

Kind regards

Jean-Marc

Salut Jean-Marc

if I understand you correctly you want to smooth the graphic. That is very tricky to do. Now the graphic has every point of the contour of the image, that makes it jaggy.

Michael Kristensen has made a button "Reduce /2". That button reduces the number of points and thus smoothes the graphic somewhat. Could you experiment with that function and tell me if that is kind of what you want?
Aply the button multiple times until it gets too "smooth" and then hit the undo button.

Kind regards
Bernd

Hi Bernd,
Yes, I tried and the result is good with a three time "reduce /2", 190 points as you said.
That is very useful to store a lot of shape in a simple text file.
Anyway. The result is nice for our project.
I have done some experiment for animation based on a points list
Thanks again
Kind regards
Jean-Marc

Jim, if you're not familiar with Maria Boadman you may enjoy how she sometimes takes Wayang in more modern directions:
http://www.balibeyond.com/performances.html

Richard,
Thank for this link. I was in Bali for a wonderful trip on our double-bicycle (tandem) but I didn't know the work of Maria Boadman
I'm afraid that will be difficult to simulate the charm of the real fire light.

Hi there

This is a tool to make graphics for popUp palettes etc.

The advantage is ease of use and only a single graphic.

Michael