From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Making metafun pictures fainter (shading, uncolored clash)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:53:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <625f7a21-70ab-6153-d981-6efa2040bd34@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9C5B81AF-6204-4A4C-956D-EAE007923CE2@comcast.net>
On 10/11/2021 6:30 AM, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I made good progress producing fainter pictures in metafun. Here is a uniformly accelerated cow in the style of my book.
>
>
>
>
> I abandoned transparency, since I actually don’t want to see through anything. I am using uncolored to get the fade. It works great with a picture that is made with fill and draw, but it doesn’t work with shading. The example below has a flat disk and a round ball. The disk looks fine, but the shaded ball is not surviving the application of inverted / uncolored.
>
>
> \startMPinclusions
> picture disk, ball;
> disk := image(
> fill fullcircle scaled 1cm withcolor .4white;
> draw fullcircle scaled 1cm withpen pencircle scaled 0.8pt ;);
> ball := image(
> fill fullcircle scaled 1cm
> withshademethod "circular"
> withshadecenter (.25,.25)
> withshadecolors (.8white, black);
> draw fullcircle scaled 1cm withpen pencircle scaled 0.8pt ;);
> \stopMPinclusions
>
> \startMPpage
> draw inverted (disk uncolored .1white) ;
> draw inverted (disk uncolored .2white) shifted (0.25cm,0) ;
> draw inverted (disk uncolored .5white) shifted (1cm,0) ;
> draw disk shifted (2.25cm,0) ;
>
> draw inverted (ball uncolored .1white) shifted (0, -2cm) ;
> draw inverted (ball uncolored .2white) shifted (0.25cm, -2cm) ;
> draw inverted (ball uncolored .5white) shifted (1cm, -2cm) ;
> draw ball shifted (2.25cm, -2cm) ;
> \stopMPpage
>
>
>
>
> Same result in LMTX and MkIV. (ConTeXt ver: 2021.09.17 10:01 LMTX fmt: 2021.9.21 int: english/english)
>
> I’m pretty happy with this uncolored trick, and will be even happier if I can get it to work with the shadings.
>
> Any suggestions?
\startMPpage
fill fullcircle scaled 10cm
shifted (3cm,0)
withcolor white ;
fill fullcircle scaled 10cm
shifted (3cm,0)
withcolor black
withtransparency (1,.25) ;
fill fullcircle scaled 5cm
shifted (3cm,0)
withcolor .25[red,white] ;
\stopMPpage
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-11 4:30 Gavin via ntg-context
2021-10-11 8:53 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-10-11 15:49 ` Solved: Making metafun pictures fainter Gavin via ntg-context
2021-10-12 12:33 ` Gavin via ntg-context
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