12-20-2017, 06:37 PM
(12-20-2017, 04:44 PM)Espermaschine Wrote: @ofnuts :
Im super impressed with this whole script ! Its a dream come true.
I have been banging my head against the wall for years, trying to make this kind of text in Inkscape.
Now you write a script in 3 days and it works in no time on a mouseclick.
Even the Bezier Envelope Extension needs 10 seconds+ to compute the effect (per letter !) and doesnt look half as good.
You should teach the Inkscape coders a lesson or two !
My script does two things to be quick:
1) it handles only the existing anchors adn tangents. 100 points for a word, vs several thousands when you try to interpolate things
2) the script restricts itself to cases where you need only to solve 3rd degree equations. Some algorithms end up with more complex polynomials and have to use iterative algorithms to find the roots. Others also just have 3rd degree polynomials, but don't know how to solve them directly and use the slower iterative algorithms instead.