filters UI versus blender nodes

[jfb]

First I want to say I'm already very happy with the filters UI !!
However, playing with blender composition machinery, I found the blender "nodes" system was more convenient for complex compositions.

In the panel dedicated to filter composition, primitives are displayed as floating widgets (small windows say, instead of lines) endowed with slots: inputs on the left, output on the right. You simply add primitves and connect them by dragging the mouse from one slot to another.

This might look like a mess, but turns out to be very handy for complex filters: 2D grouping of primitives allows better readability, reusing the same primitve at several places is easier, and the output of any primitive in the stack can easily be seen just by pluging the "result" primitive in the relevant slot...

Since blender is also open source, I wonder if there is a way to reuse blender code directly. It would be very nice, although I guess things never go this way ;-)

And by the way, thanks to all the developpers for the filters code!!
jfb.

[ScislaC (scislac)]

+1 :)

[Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail)]

+1 more.
It's a great idea.
I'm afraid that it would be pretty difficult to reuse blender code though. They use a specific toolkit and maye it would be easier to write the code from scratch instead of adapt it.

[Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine)]

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/improved-filter-effects-dialog

[Joshua Blocher (verbalshadow)]

Also see https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/improved-filter-effects-dialog wiki page.