feather tool

[adam]

I love it! but when you have a spline around say the peak of a cap and it loops back around. the feather tool creates a kind of spill out the sides, I tried to add more control points but they dont quite get rid of it all. do I make sence? i'd really like to beable to control the spill somehow.

:thanksagain:

[paulm]

Yeah, this is a limitation. There is currently no way to avoid the spill except to reduce the length of the feather normal at that location.

[D_Shorey]

I tried to reduce the feather on both sides to as close to 0 as I could but it seems to have no effect on the spill out. It seem as if the existence of a feather causes it not the size (or am I missing something?) :confused:
Also is there a numeric feather length input?

Great product keep up the good work.

[adam]

I found the same ( existance of the feather causes the spill ) the only way to reduce it is to have no feather. and a numeric value would be great to add consistant feathers over a number of splines.

[adam]

and now I have a small skinny shape ( a wire ). with the feather applied it spills out 10 times the size of the shape?! :eek: why?

[paulm]

Well, I could try to explain the algorithm to you... :-)

That's just an unpleasant artifact of the way the current feathering algorithm works. It works wonderfully for some shapes, and poorly for others.

[adam]

perhaps we need two algorithms. keep the one that works wonderfully and add a new one for the ones that work poorly. or an algorithm intensity slider.

[paulm]

Oh I admit we need another one. The problem is coming up with one.

If anyone wants to suggest one, which uses our existing "point-anywhere" method, please feel free!