Tiles / Shaped Angular Gradients
Hi. I sent an e-mail recently asking for information about the Gimp
algorithm for generating the shaped angular gradients over arbitrary
free shapes on the canvas. I did more digging in the source code and
discovered the pertinent function in app/gimpdrawable-blend.c:
code:
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(gdouble x,
gdouble y)
{
Tile *tile;
gfloat value;
gint ix = CLAMP (x, 0.0, distR.w - 0.7);
gint iy = CLAMP (y, 0.0, distR.h - 0.7);
tile = tile_manager_get_tile (distR.tiles, ix, iy, TRUE, FALSE);
value = 1.0 - *((gfloat *) tile_data_pointer (tile, ix, iy));
tile_release (tile, FALSE);
return value;
}
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However, this is rather obscure to me because it depends on a global
PixelRegion data structure and "Tiles" for that structure being
calculated before hand. Is there some one who could give me any helpful
words of insight on this subject?
I am rather curious, imagining that if I where to write a function for
calculating the value of any pixel in a shaped angular gradient in an
arbitrary enclosed path, it would have something to do with finding the
closest points in the enclosing path and actually calculating angles.
But so far I haven't found anything like that in the Gimp code.
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