Scribble June 2018

[Ross Macintosh]

I thought I'd try playing with the supplied line in SketchUp. I couldn't import the line itself so I imported a jpeg image of it and traced it in SketchUp to replicate it. The candlestick was then constructed using copies of the line to shape the profile. A few jpg exports were then assembled into the attached image using Xara.

[iamtheblues]

Great presentation, Ross.

[Ross Macintosh]

The attached image is a screen capture at the point I had a serious error.




The image is "simply" a 950-step rainbow blend between two copies of the provided lines. Both lines had conical stained glass transparency (99.5% to 100%) and stroked profiles. The only difference between the two 24-point lines was their colour and that one was flipped horizontally relative to the other. The crash happened when I foolishly decided to attempt to add feathering to one of the two lines. It wouldn't actually let me continue.

[MarcT]

To the beach!!

[wizard509]

To the beach!!

I like it a lot Mark. Looks like you used the line in several places, that's very cool!

[Ross Macintosh]

To the beach!!

Hey Marc - that's a great use of the line. Running Fast!

[wizard509]

The attached image is a screen capture at the point I had a serious error.




The image is "simply" a 950-step rainbow blend between two copies of the provided lines. Both lines had conical stained glass transparency (99.5% to 100%) and stroked profiles. The only difference between the two 24-point lines was their colour and that one was flipped horizontally relative to the other. The crash happened when I foolishly decided to attempt to add feathering to one of the two lines. It wouldn't actually let me continue.

Kinda funny when you think about it.

[Ross Macintosh]

Kinda funny when you think about it.

Yes, funny strange. The technique is a great way to have some interactive graphics fun. It's about trying simple edits to the blend and watching what effect it will have. You can't really anticipate how it will turn out. Fun!

[Tip: to edit the start and end objects in a blend that has hundreds of steps, use ctrl+click to select the end shape in the blend -edit as desired- and then use the tab key to switch the selection to the blend's start object. The technique requires many steps in the blend and very high levels of transparency in the start and end objects. Those objects can be lines or shapes. In the case of lines you have line weights, rotations, skewings, scalings, colour, strokes, as well as transparency settings to play with. Lots of variables for something created with as little as two lines.]

[wizard509]

I thought I'd try playing with the supplied line in SketchUp. I couldn't import the line itself so I imported a jpeg image of it and traced it in SketchUp to replicate it. The candlestick was then constructed using copies of the line to shape the profile. A few jpg exports were then assembled into the attached image using Xara.

That's great Ross, I love it.

[Rik]

I thought I'd try playing with the supplied line in SketchUp. I couldn't import the line itself so I imported a jpeg image of it and traced it in SketchUp to replicate it. The candlestick was then constructed using copies of the line to shape the profile. A few jpg exports were then assembled into the attached image using Xara.

That's seriously good.