Path transformations

[Ottia Tuota]

(07-12-2020, 11:33 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: I find it complicated to use. I don't see much purpose in the "base" and "target". You can make things simpler with one less path. You would have:

1. The source path
2. The "shaper"
3. A rectangle.

The transform maps the rectangle to the shaper. In the nominal use, the rectangle frames the source path. Benefits: the rectangle can be implicit, and can be for instance the bounding box of the source path (max/min x,y of the anchors, or anchors and tangents) or defined by guides, or the selection...  See for instance https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-ofn-bend-path

I made a simplified version of the plugin. The download link is in post #1. There one gets everything in one big .zip file. The new, simplified version is still experimental and is bound to change in near future. I named the new plugin "Map shaped by a Bezier arc quadrilateral (easy)" since I have no better name for it. Note the "(easy)" at the end.

Ofnuts: Will you kindly look at it and give your opinion. I trust your judgement. You know how to write good plugins. I myself tend to make everything too complicated. (I shun depriving anybody of anything, so I offer too many options in my plugins since otherwise I would be depriving the users of choices...)

This version 0.16 is still temporary and will change. There are no Base or Target. The Target is taken internally from the Shaper. To replace the Base I followed the example of ofn-bend-path. The plugin asks for a reference box. I think it as an enclosing box of the path to be transformed. Currently there are two choices:

• Bounding box of anchors of the Path,
  
• Bounding box of selection.
  

But I plan to put at least one more (guides), perhaps three(?).