Feature request - only show relevant spoke ratios in Star Tool

Bug #787302 reported by Daniel McRae
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Bug Description

If you right click on the star tool spoke ratio box, you are presented with a list of spoke ratios that can be useful, such as the ratios for various different stars; e.g. it shows the ratios for a regular pentagram and hexagram.

I suggest only showing the ratios for the currently selected number of corners.

For a N point star, there are floor((N-3)/2) possible stars (e.g. for 5 points, 1 star available, for 7 points, 2 stars). If we describe the star by which point we skip to counting from the current one as zero (call this n), then the spoke ratio is cos(pi*n/N)/cos(pi*(n-1)/N), per the attached pdf.

Of course, if for example you have a 20 point star, then displaying all 8 spoke ratios begins to get too much, so there would need to be a cut-off point.

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Daniel McRae (djm158) wrote :
su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: shape-editing ui
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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