Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Comments about some magic tools

[Pere P. i C. <pe...@fo...>]

Hi!

Bill Kendrick wrote: 
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:57:02PM +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
  
> 
> We discussed how he could implement a Magic tool that paints the
> Jigsaw pieces onto the image, similar to how Bricks works.

I think it would be better to control in a way similar as waves does: 
click or drag mouse to bottom-left to get a 2x2 puzzle, click or drag 
to upper-right to get a 5x4 one. 
Change on the intermediate states as long as you click or drag the mouse 
on the screen.
Be sure to not draw a jigsaw with _lots_ of pieces or nobody will cut it :).


> > b)  A computed animation like some screensavers do, starting on mouse
> > click and ending on mouse release. Even the direction of the animation
> > (when possible) can be controlled on mouse drag.
> >     
> 
> I'm not 100% sure I understand this one.

I mean something like the 4 or 5 first xscreensavers in this demo does:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SadVTuWI6cw
They begin to draw on a part of the screen (the image on tuxpaint) and
continue filling the screen until someone stops them (mouse release on
my idea)

Supose a spiral: you start drawing at mouse click, as soon as you
compute a part of the spiral, you draw this part. The user will see the
spiral growing (like an animation), and will be able to stop the grow on
mouse release.
Even you can deform the way this spiral grows on mouse drag by atracting
the center or the spires to the new mouse position.


Yours
Pere