{"id":249,"date":"2010-02-15T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.wordpress.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2020-07-11T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:09:31","slug":"56-of-365-is-changing-from-a-pencil-to-a-quill-in-inkscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/02\/15\/56-of-365-is-changing-from-a-pencil-to-a-quill-in-inkscape\/","title":{"rendered":"56 of 365 is changing from a pencil to a quill in #inkscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was inspired to make something that reminded me of President’s day. When I think of Washington, I think quills, and when I think of Lincoln, I think of pencils, though they both had both. I can’t explain why, this is just what came to me. So this one is all about the interpolation extension (extensions\/generate from path\/interpolate) which takes two paths and creates intermediate shapes that show how one shape turned into another shape. It’s great for creating animations, but also for illustration. For instance, you can take two related objects (like a pencil and a quill) and have them connected by a series of shadowy shapes. So, in order to do this, I created a pencil by hand with the Bezier tool, and then created a gradient that described what we’d expect to see on a pencil (yellow paint, woody tip, lead, eraser). I also found a nondescript image of a feather, brought it in and took a duplicate of the pencil and shaped that into the quill. For that gradient, I created a feather like set of transitions. I then applied the Interpolate<\/a> extension to create the tweening<\/a>. Really just an experiment for me here, but I can see using this in other situations, for sure.<\/p>\n

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      I was inspired to make something that reminded me of President’s day. When I think of Washington, I think quills, and when I think of Lincoln, I think of pencils, though they both had both. I can’t explain why, this is just what came to me. 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