for this tutorial you need a recent build of inkscape
here is the final svg file : http://pastebin.com/f1ff1cae6
open up inkscape and click on the pencil or pen tools. Select the new spiro mode
notice the shape setting? this applies a pattern along path to match a brush like effect rather than just a solid width path.
have a scribble with the rough shape you want to accomplish
let go and checkout your awesomely smooth shape .. its probably not exactly what you want yet.. but we’ll fix that later.
to see what inkscape has done for you, checkout the path effects dialog fond in the path > path effects menu.
if you have your path selected with the node tool, you can edit your pattern along path on-canvas. just click the show “next path effect parameter for editing” (we should rename that button). Anyway, have a play with the default.
If you want to try a brush like effect, just create a star with the star tool, convert to shape (ctrl+shift+c) and delete a few middle nodes (ctrl+delete) to get a similar shape to what you see here.
All done!
now you can fill and stoke your new path effect like it was a normal shape. have fun!
someday .. i dont know when. 2geom will probably support spiro splines. and someday (hopefully soon) this means native spiro drawing with a spiro tool rather than this path effect hack we’ve got going (notice the red original path ?) eww .
Excellent! Thanks Andy for this tutorial. Many of us are curious about Spiro. Ever since trying it myself I’m hook. I love drawing with it.
That nearly looks like Australia, or at least the early version.
nice tutorial…no doubt that I have to tried it…:D
It would be nice if the screenshots could at least be the width of the text. Then people would not have to enlarge them all.
Nice tutorial. It’s a great tool!
Oh no! Undoing a delete path effect in the Oct-2 nightly build causes total crash! Guess I’ll have to (not so patiently) wait for .47 to be officially released for a stable version.
what do you mean by needing this-
a recent build of inkscape
here is the final svg file : http://pastebin.com/f1ff1cae6
i am new in inkscape thanks for that
Can inkscape be used to model the wavelengths of particle and other forms of energy interacting with one another in a motion of influence type model, where the lines are give a value of either positive or negative and when placed into an environmental they would react accordingly to their line charge?