I would like to see the ability within Xtreme to create spirals like Dmitry Malutin's SPX Spiral Generator. I know that this can be done with a 3rd party app, but it would be nice to have it in house.
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I would like to see the ability within Xtreme to create spirals like Dmitry Malutin's SPX Spiral Generator. I know that this can be done with a 3rd party app, but it would be nice to have it in house.
I can't see a use for spirals (I don't mean that in a trolling way, i just can't see a creative use for them). When I saw the feature in Inkscape, just thought it was just a gimmicky toy. What creative uses can a spiral be put to?
This scroll was made using spirals and the extrusion tool.:)
Saludos,
Bob.
I was going to say scroll work as well. However, I was thinking more along the lines of Iron scroll work in fences and lavish decorative scroll work in wood carvings and crown moldings etc. I can see lots of decorative applications for spirals. I'm sure that other artists could as well. Demetri did, otherwise he wouldn't have created the shareware application.
Eric
agree - likely far more artistic than anything else
you could always do them in inkscape and import into xxp5 as pdf - but again, not the in house solution Eric wants...
There are quite a few people on the forum using spirals to make theme backgrounds etc.. Look at the example design by Suvek in this thread
I just used Dmitry Malutin's SPX Spiral Generator the other day to create the center for a pinwheel (detail shown below). It would have been handy having the ability to generate the spiral from Xtreme as it took me a while to locate where I had stashed the utility on my hard drive. I've used the spiral application for several other projects, as well, and I had trouble locating it then, too. You'd think I'd put a shortcut to it someplace obvious, like my Quick Launch Toolbar. :rolleyes:
Since Dmitry already has a working version of the spiral generator why not license the code from him and integrate it into the next release of Xara Xtreme?
Just a thought,
Harry
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I was also thinking about making interesting borders and dividers like this example here. This is just a quick and dirty example but should certainly get you thinking on the right track. I created only 1 spiral and copied it over and over as needed. However, I can certainly imagine multiple and very different spirals adding to the artistry of a drawing.
Eric
I agree with Harry. I use Dmitry's SPXE too. I think it would make a welcome addition. Here is a quick example of something I created with SPXE and XXP5
Ok, you've got easy access to Dmitry's spiral generator, and it's free. Why would you want to complicate Xtreme's UI with something you can use perfectly well as it is?
Adding bells & whistles makes an app heavier and more complex. Just think about Adobe Acrobat and CorelDraw. They both try to include everything you could possibly want, and the result is two very bloated hogs that are slow by comparison to other apps and cumbersome to use. Both apps have some nice features, but you have to wade through a lot of lard to get to them. ;)
Please keep our beloved Xtreme lean and fast. I'd rather have an athlete than a hog.
Tools and functions don't all have to live in the same house. They just have to work well together and and play nicely with the other kids on the block. :)