interlaced circles

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FredDeNantes
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interlaced circles

Postby FredDeNantes » Mon May 16, 2016 2:34 am

Hi

Is there a way to draw entrelaced circles withe inkscape ?
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Moini
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Re: interlaced circles

Postby Moini » Mon May 16, 2016 3:43 am

I don't know of any automated way, no.

You could use something similar to this to make things faster:
- Draw circles, do 'Stroke to Path'
- Make a duplicate of the circles, Combine the duplicated circles
- Use the MultiBool extension set (https://inkscape.org/en/~Moini/%E2%98%8 ... e-division) to cut all circles into pieces with Multiple Division, move combined path out of the way.
- Remove a few circle segments to make it look as if they were overlapping
- use 'select same' to get the all elements of a specific circle by color, do Path -> Union for each circle, fix stacking order
- Add a stroke, if you want it to look as it does in your image
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FredDeNantes
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Re: interlaced circles

Postby FredDeNantes » Mon May 16, 2016 6:41 am

thx !

Lazur
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Re: interlaced circles

Postby Lazur » Mon May 16, 2016 6:49 am

Of course there is.

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But it's not an option inkscape provides you as per se, you need to know how exactly to go for it.

FredDeNantes
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Re: interlaced circles

Postby FredDeNantes » Mon May 16, 2016 7:00 am

Wahoo Lazur !
Is it hard to explain ?
just for 2 circles ?

Lazur
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Re: interlaced circles

Postby Lazur » Mon May 16, 2016 7:39 am

No, not really.

Here is an article of the base of the problem.
Other than that it's just a matter of how you overlap the different objects to avoid any anti-aliasing artifacts.

Although usually it is a good idea to draw strokes around the shapes -like in this case, and then such "nit picking" on the fill is unnecessary.

Anyway, here are some examples of overlapping.

FredDeNantes
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Re: interlaced circles

Postby FredDeNantes » Mon May 16, 2016 6:47 pm

thx a lot !!!


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