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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Fuzzy lines
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 12:02:27 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2105111156370.845768@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKyqqaZbh9rKkQa6kCyr16CXJ1vZu___jW=jfJ-YUkpQPYjk8A@mail.gmail.com>



On Tue, 11 May 2021, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:

> For simple pens, you may define your own (section 9.7 of MetaPost manual).
> For complicated strokes, something along these lines could be useful as a
> starting point (I'm not taking cyclic paths in consideration, btw). I did
> something similar with duck footprints some weeks ago:
> 
> %Sorry for the ugly code...

Look at this old code on how hide such code behind a macro to have a clean interface:

https://github.com/adityam/mp-sketch/blob/master/mp-sketch.mp

Sometimes I use such effects in presentations but you have to resist the temptation to overdo it:

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~adityam/talks/2016-it-forum.pdf

Aditya

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-11 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-11 10:58 Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-11 11:30 ` Mikael Sundqvist
2021-05-11 12:33   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-11 12:56   ` Jairo A. del Rio
2021-05-11 16:02     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2021-05-12 18:07       ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-13 13:08       ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-13 16:36         ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-05-13 16:55           ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-13 17:17             ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-05-13 18:02               ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-13 18:26                 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2021-05-13 19:42                   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-05-14 15:08                     ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2021-05-13 22:39                 ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-05-14  9:43                   ` Hans Hagen
2021-05-14 20:33                   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2021-09-03 16:04                 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-01-21 18:00                   ` Iterating over MP paths (was: Fuzzy lines) Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-05-14 10:05           ` Fuzzy lines Hans Hagen
2021-05-12 17:55     ` Henning Hraban Ramm
     [not found]       ` <CAKyqqaaosis=BjOD_mArY5VM+bzcj-ar4uMtnt8SRJ2WLL9ykw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-05-12 21:21         ` Fwd: " Jairo A. del Rio
2021-05-13 13:23           ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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