no dynamic motifs tool

[pierluc]

It has no dynamic motifs tool on Inkscape. I talk about a tool who permit to create very sophisticate motif like the motif who are explained on the book name:

Motif Ornementaux no. 4
Collection Leonardo de Vindiana Editrice
Via V. Froppa, 14 - 20144 Milano - Tel. [phone] - Fax [phone]
http://www.vinciana.com

[Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine)]

This isn't a must have function really, and if implemented, it should be an extension, not a core feature.

[pierluc (pierluc)]

This isn't a must???
Have you read the book? A tool like that are very useful to create hight quality design. The actual motif tool are not good because it's very complicate to create a beautiful motif with it. This tool just clone the picture, nothing more.

[Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre-prokoudine)]

Heh, I actually read a few books on oriental patterns. Does it count? Are we talking about making Inkscape a specialized tool to design pattern based rugs? :)

Could you please elaborate what exactly you want to see implemented?

[bbyak (buliabyak)]

and why clone tiler isn't good enough?

[pierluc (pierluc)]

I was talking about de motif (pattern) tool. With this tool we can paint a motif (pattern) on a draw. But, we have absolutely no contrôl of the position of element who compose the pattern. The pattern are like cars on a parking. With the clone tool, we have more contrôl... but the clone tool are not the motif (pattern) tool. We can not paint on a draw with this tool. And, we can non take the pictures of the pattern, select a positioning grid and paint a draw.

I don't know if you understand. I'm french canadian (form Québec) speaker and I a try to explain my idea in english, it's not easy.

I don't talk about making Inkscape a specialized tool to design pattern based rugs. I'm just talking about a toll to create a pattern in a draw with a positioning grid and more than one part of pattern without have to cut anything like if you create a pattern on the paper with a pen or a brush.

To create parts of the pattern, we can use the actual function of Inkscape.

This type of tool are very useful to create beautiful background for a web site, draw flowers on the draw of a skirt, etc. The pattern tool are already there, why not improve it?

An other option who can be interesting is a toll to deform the pattern on the draw to keep the natural form of what we have dray. If we create a pattern to pent a beach ball, in can be very useful to deform the pattern to have the curve of the ball. If we create a motif of fish scale, gives the form of the fish will gives very hight quality result.

Note: If we create a motif (pattern) of fish scale with the actual motif (pattern) tool, it will be ugly because the scale will look like a bad quality wallpaper like the wallpaper of Windows 95.

[pierluc (pierluc)]

This an example of positioning grid. We can create ours own grid depend of what type of pattern we want to create.