Hi all,

Following a little discussion that myself and nomis were having on irc, we got talking about the default option values for sel2path, which we agreed provided far too many control points. I told him that I'd played around with it, and gotten values which produced results I considered better. He suggested I put them in a mail to the developers list, and suggest them as new defaults.

So here goes... could people comment on whether they think these are pretty crap, or whether people reckon these might be better as defaults? Cheers. By the way, for those that don't know, to bring up the menu, Shift-Click on the selection-to-path button in the paths dialog while there's a selection active.

Align threshold: 1.0 Corner always threshold: 60.0
Corner surround: 4
Corner threshold: 100.0
Error threshold: 1.0
Filter alternative surround: 1
Filter epsilon: 10.0
Filter iteration count: 10
Filter percent: 0.33
Filter secondary surround: 5
Filter surround: 3
Unckeck "Keep knees"
Line reversion threshold: 0.10
Line threshold: 0.5
Reparametrize improvement: 0.02
Reparametrize threshold: 1.00
Subdivide search: 0.25
Subdivide surround: 6
Subdivide threshold: 0.5
Tangent surround: 4

Cheers,
Dave.

David Neary wrote:

So here goes... could people comment on whether they think these are pretty crap, or whether people reckon these might be better as defaults? Cheers. By the way, for those that don't know, to bring up the menu, Shift-Click on the selection-to-path button in the paths dialog while there's a selection active.

As requested, here's a patch against 1.3 (same patch works unchanged against 1.2) for people to try.

Cheers, Dave.

Hi all,

Following a little discussion that myself and nomis were having on irc, we got talking about the default option values for sel2path, which we agreed provided far too many control points. I told him that I'd played around with it, and gotten values which produced results I considered better. He suggested I put them in a mail to the developers list, and suggest them as new defaults.

So here goes... could people comment on whether they think these are pretty crap, or whether people reckon these might be better as defaults? Cheers. By the way, for those that don't know, to bring up the menu, Shift-Click on the selection-to-path button in the paths dialog while there's a selection active.

I've attached a patch which changes the defaults. Are there any objections to me committing this for 1.2 and 1.3?

Cheers, Dave.

Propsed defaults are:

Align threshold: 1.0 Corner always threshold: 60.0
Corner surround: 4
Corner threshold: 100.0
Error threshold: 1.0
Filter alternative surround: 1
Filter epsilon: 10.0
Filter iteration count: 10
Filter percent: 0.33
Filter secondary surround: 5
Filter surround: 3
Unckeck "Keep knees"
Line reversion threshold: 0.10
Line threshold: 0.5
Reparametrize improvement: 0.02
Reparametrize threshold: 1.00
Subdivide search: 0.25
Subdivide surround: 6
Subdivide threshold: 0.5
Tangent surround: 4