Fly Splat

[molucca]

EC 4000 coloring of a wiggle stroke.

Rich

[SCALEBACK666]

How did you do THAT?????:

[molucca]

I made a wiggle drawing in Xara by joining alternate circle halves. Then exported the drawing to EPS from XXP3. An earlier export version compatible with Expression 3.2. In E3, I defined the drawing as a non repeating vector stroke. I made a 20 step circle contour in Xara and exported it to EPS as well. Then applied the stroke to the circle drawing in E3. Then adjusted the stroke width. In this case, the width becomes the height of the wiggle. I wanted something wider, and increased the line width in Xara to make a new wiggle drawing. The new stroke increased the width of the stroke line. The stroke follows the path. Circles are different in E3 because they have a beginning and end. I'll have to look if this happened.
The rest is just increasing the stroke width. I'll have to count the lobes and make a comparison to the drawing. In E3, I would have to unstructure to apply a map fill, but this becomes so node heavy it makes the drawing difficult.

So, I exported to PNG/alpha for use in Xara. Eye Candy is a bitmap program, and becomes easy to apply. I have made several hundred environments, and just tried a a few.

It is easier to do than explain.

Rich

[wizard509]

Those are really neat Rich. Who would thought a fly splat could look so good.

[molucca]

Larry,

A longer stroke to show the difference. Go color and see what you get.

Rich.

[molucca]

I unstructured each path and applied level 1 smoothing. Then applied a gold map fill. Exported to PNG/alpha, and did a blend in Xara.

Rich

[molucca]

The E3 smoothed version to PDF and opened in Xara.

Rich

[molucca]

Fly splat as a transparent environment.

Rich