Re: [Gimp-developer] gegl and spiro

[Michael Henning <drawoc darkrefraction com>]

Currently, there is (almost) no benefit. Building gegl with spiro
support allows XML compositions to use spiro curves when input on the
gegl command line. I'm not entirely sure that works as I've never used
it, and I have a feeling nobody else has used it in a long time.

The spiro curves support used to be part of the old gegl editor, but
now that editor is gone.

So, building with spiro won't change gimp at all.

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Elle Stone <l elle stone gmail com> wrote:
> What benefits are there from installing the spiro libraries for gegl to use?
>
> According to the spiro website:  http://libspiro.sourceforge.net/
>
> Using bézier splines an artist can easily draw curves with the same
> slope on either side of an on-curve point. Spiros, on the other hand,
> are based on clothoid splines which make it easy to maintain constant
> curvature as well as constant slope. Such curves will simply look
> nicer.
>
> I've never had the spiro libraries installed on my computer. They can
> be downloaded from sourceforge. What would be the benefits? What part
> of Gimp would draw nicer curves?
>
> Elle
>
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