Dillerkind wrote:I usually just scrap the piece, i.e. delete it.

**cringes at the thought**

Hmm...let's see Starting from the shapes on the far left. - [1 action] duplicate the star shape (ctrl-d) - [2 actions]break the duplicate shape into line segments (select the shape's nodes and hit the "break path at nodes" tool - [1 action] enable snap to path - [20 actions] drag segment e...

Man I'd love to get one your project svgs to analyse and study how you put your stuff together. Any throw away pieces you'd be okay with sharing?

snapping tools...use them...they're awesome!

It looks like most of it is about using javascript libraries. Is that how most smart phone or tablet games are developed? The majority of mobile games are native, so they would likely leverage languages, APIs and frameworks native to a given platform (Objective C/Swift for iOs, Java for Android). B...

Below is a series of articles I came across that explores SVG w.r.t. games and animation. Hopefully someone finds this useful: http://www.inkfood.com/svg-in-gamedev/ http://www.inkfood.com/svg-pivvot-clone/ http://www.inkfood.com/svg-platformer-up/ http://www.inkfood.com/svg-texturing/ http://www.in...

So here's an example of a sine wave created using the function plotter:

I just tried using the extension and was able to replicate some of those graphs fairly easily without the aid of any tutorials (and its been a while since I've done any rigorous mathematics). Are you going to share your steps ? I'll make a few screenshots. This extension targets users who require a...

I just tried using the extension and was able to replicate some of those graphs fairly easily without the aid of any tutorials (and its been a while since I've done any rigorous mathematics). This extension targets users who require a robust graphing utility and its more than fair for the creators t...

However, the 3-point circle may be too simple given the tools/extensions available. Why would i want to draw a three point circle ? I dont quite get the point of path optimization. Can somebody explain, pls ?! Here's a somewhat contrived example (but it gets the point across) - suppose you wanted t...

- other geometric constructions, like a 3 point circle you suggested... but which will be the methodology to choose the best optimization,... number of steps? Number of steps seems a good measure for process optimization. However, the 3-point circle may be too simple given the tools/extensions avai...

We got some awesome results for this challenge with some really enlightening approaches. Thinking about the next challenge and switching up the format. Challenge #1's focus was optimizing node count, the next challenge I'm thinking about optimizing a process. So the 3-point circle came to mind (9 po...

If you look at it it wasn't skewed. That would result only in a simple paralellogram shape -which you would need two next to eachother to build the bending shapes. Meaning four points, instead the current 3. They were scaled and rotated . Skewing is a transformation that scales vertices/nodes along...

All right, since gradients don't matter anymore. 18 points presented as 18 nodes and straight path segments. So it's "better" than the previous 16+4=20... https://openclipart.org/download/245465/isoRoadTile11.svg By the way if the left side would be darker than the right, it could be done...

Revised the rules to take gradients into consideration. Whaaat? nooo :P ... oh well 32 points then!... and what about cloning? Forgot about that one. I guess to keep the playing field level, clones should be counted as duplicates of the original shape - so multiply the number of clones by the nodes...

Revised the rules to take gradients into consideration.

Best I could do (so far) was 30 points: - 6 nodes (hexagon) for clipping path - 3 nodes (triangle) for grass/green area - 3 nodes (triangle) for earth/brown area - 6 nodes (2 separate triangles) for tinted overlays - 6 nodes for beige/off-white border - 6 nodes for dark gray tarmac http://dimudesign...

Lazur URH wrote:So with less clipping.

31 points.

Tested and got 31 points. I'm impressed! I was hoping others would join in before making a submission of my own but I'll get started on mine and see how well I can do.

Lazur URH wrote:

18 points.

Checked this one too (clip-path nodes counted) and got 45 nodes (not 18). Its an improvement though.

Lazur URH wrote:

27 points.

Loaded the svg up in inkscape and found 63 points.

Guide line append um - the nodes that make up clip paths and masks are also counted as points.

Vector Art Optimization Challenge #1 Preamble Howdy Folks! Welcome to the first in a series of vector art optimization challenges.These challenges are presented as bite-size exercises for community members to tackle. My hope is that we'll learn from each other in the process. All are encouraged to ...

kstingel wrote:would I be best served to use individual SVG images for my tiles, or create all the tiles in a single file?

You can create your tiles and convert them to symbols and keep them in one svg file and use that svg as a symbol library.

I don't think the stroke-alignment attribute is supported yet.

Its not too hard to work around though. You can double the stroke width for one. For example, if you want to have a border with an inset of 5px set the stroke to 10px. Enable cusp snapping to arrange your hex-grids and you're good to go.

You can use the "Measure Path" extension. In the menu bar go to Extensions>Visualize Path>Measure Path.