[Verse-dev] Verse in Cairo?

[Stuart Axon]

Meant to do this via the list - still getting used to this mail client



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From: Emil Brink <emil at obsession..se>
To: "stuaxo2 at yahoo.com" <stuaxo2 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 10:58:47 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Verse-dev] Verse in Cairo?

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:49 AM, stuaxo2 at yahoo.com <stuaxo2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I entered the linked bug.
> Does verse have some idea of named objects like blender?

Yes. Data in Verse is organized in "nodes", and each node can have a
textual name.

Please see the Verse core spec for more information, at
<http://verse.blender.org/fileadmin/verse/spec/>.

> Also, when it comes to fonts i suppose we need the right kind of curves for the font. I chose verse as i'm interested in the cairo to
> blender route but it also opens up interesting options for cairo programs to share parts of themselves with each other. I'm also
> researching going the other way, from 3d to cairo

Okay. If you want to express fonts (or rather glyphs, I guess) as
geometry (i.e., not pixels) in Verse, you will need to use Verse's
primitives. Luckily, Verse only has a single primitive to learn.
Unfortunately, it is a variant of subdivision surfaces, so you cannot
directly transfer e.g. Beziér curves to/from Verse. Or maybe you can;
I vaguely remember some claim of equivalence between Verse's subdiv
surfaces and one of the more common curve types ... Sorry for being
vague, it's been several years and I was never totally into the
geometry side of things.

Regards,

/Emil