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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST:Re: Vector Graphics
From:       ante <vitanova () softhome ! net>
Date:       2001-03-03 9:47:05
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After all the work done there is no use starting all over...

Ante

On Saturday 24 February 2001 18:51, Andreas Pour wrote:
> "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" wrote:
> > rik@kde.org wrote:
> > > #if Andreas Pour
> > >
> > > > This discussion is very interesting but without artists to draw
> > > > vector icons it's pointless.  I haven't heard any artists write yet
> > > > so I gather they aren't subscribed.
> > >
> > > I'm waiting to see someone provide an example of vector-based icons
> > > (and some rendering code) that looks good at least at the sizes we
> > > currently use. Until then, the argument for vector-based icons is
> > > quite pointless IMHO.
> >
> > Hm. Not directly... But if you look at the actual icons you see that
> > most of them are set up by basic elements provided by pixel graphic
> > program, like simple lines, bezier lines, circles, fills, blendings, and
> > so on. If one collected all the actions that were done and hold them in
> > a script you had some kind of vector icon ;)
>
> Are you suggesting that the artist drew these icons using circles and
> ellipses and then used dialogs to fill in gradients?  These icons range
> from 16x16 to 48x48, I am quite confident all of them were bitmapped.
>
> > The rendering code then is inside Gimp ;)
> >
> > Or did the artists really set each pixel by hand?
>
> Yeah, that is what I have heard from Tackat.  You know how much longer
> it would take to do it using vectors?  I would suspect way longer.  And
> making changes is so much harder.  If you don't like one pixel with the
> bimap format, you change it; who knows how many clicks it would take to
> switch a pixel using the vector approach (there are vectors to move,
> gradients to change, making sure other pixels aren't affected, . . . .).
>
> > I only expect
> > corrections and border adding to having been done this way. I think the
> > border adding could be done automatically.
> >
> > Satiesfied? ;)
>
> Well it's no up to me ;-), I think unless you cc: the kde-artists team
> and see what they are willing/able to do there is not much practicality
> to this discussion.  OK, I do that now :-) (hope I have the right
> address).
>
> Ciao,
>
> Andreas Pour
>
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