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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: question about MP drawing with dir
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 19:41:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <caca0c9f-fd8b-36e8-ad91-5b9694e1897a@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d35f21b6-dc7e-acfb-00b7-29f82dabf5d2@xs4all.nl>

On 05/24/2018 09:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> [...] 
> reusing a picture is more efficient
> 
> \startMPpage
>      draw fullcircle scaled (.06TextWidth - .05LineHeight);
>      picture t ; t := textext("\cldcontext{utf.char(0xEB09)}") ;
>      for m=1 step 2 until 10 :
>          path s ; s := (dir30--dir150--dir315--dir90--dir225--cycle) 
> scaled m;
>          n := (m * 50) ;
>          o := (m / 5) ;
>          for i=0 upto n :
>            draw t scaled (o * .025) shifted point (i/n*length s) of s ;
>          endfor
>      endfor
> \stopMPpage

Many thanks for the improvement, Hans.

Pablo
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-25 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-24 19:01 Pablo Rodriguez
2018-05-24 19:33 ` Hans Hagen
2018-05-24 19:41   ` Hans Hagen
2018-05-25 17:41   ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2018-05-24 20:23 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-25 17:58   ` Pablo Rodriguez

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