mesh gradient bending

[Pétery Tamás]

Bend lpe doesn't bend gradient mesh.

[Vladimir Savic (vladimir-firefly-savic)]

It is expected, IMO. Live PATH effects affect base path only. Bending doesn't have any effect on other paint servers neither. One can not bend linear and radial gradients. The same goes for patterns.

[Brynn (brynn4inks-deactivatedaccount)]

Just curious, Lazur. Have you found that you can bend a linear or radial gradient? If that were possible, there wouldn't be as much of a need for the mesh.

Not that I'm very technically aware of what should or shouldn't be possible. But I think the LPEs are only supposed to effect the paths.

[Pétery Tamás (lazur)]

I remember it was asked awhile ago in the forum how to bend a gradient because illustrator could do that.

And what illustrator did was replacing the linear gradient with a gradient mesh and distort it just as if it was a compound path.
That would be a great feature to have and that workaround makes sence.

[Pétery Tamás (lazur)]

Oh here it is:

http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18267

and illustrator for reference:
http://ndesign-studio.com/tutorials/chinese-bamboo

[Pétery Tamás (lazur)]

After a second look that is achieved by filtering. Still, I don't see how the geometrical representations of the mesh couldn't be bent as a path or as a pattern along path effect.

Like manually you can recreate a path representing the mesh, with the same handles, and apply the bend lpe on it.
And after visualizing this bent path a new gradient mesh could be drawn upon it, colours placed at the nodes, mesh handles pulled to fit with the layout.