Re: [NTG-context] Fuzzy lines

Hi Jairo, thank you for the suggestion.

Am 11.05.2021 um 14:56 schrieb Jairo A. del Rio :

For simple pens, you may define your own (section 9.7 of MetaPost manual).

Unfortunately, pens don’t work as patterns but only as outlines.

For complicated strokes, something along these lines could be useful as a starting point (I'm not taking cyclic paths in consideration, btw). I did something similar with duck footprints some weeks ago:

%Sorry for the ugly code... \starttext \startMPpage %Unit size numeric u; u := 1mm;

%In a picture you are able to include everything, kinda picture Pluma; Pluma := image( for i = 1 upto 5: for j = 1 upto 5: draw (i,j) randomized 1; endfor endfor );

Unfortunately, that’s the same pattern over and over. The randomization is only applied once. Good for footprints, bad for fuzzy patterns.

%Simple curve path Camino; Camino := origin for i = 1 upto 30: .. (u*i, u*sind (12i mod 360)) endfor;

%Strokes for i = 0 step 1/2 until length Camino: draw Pluma rotated (90 + angle direction i of Camino) shifted point i of Camino; endfor

Since I have more or less straight lines but of different length, the "one pattern per 1/n path segment" doesn’t work for me. I could try to construct my paths differently. Hraban