RyanMarcus
"Spikes" between paths
Heyo! I've been trying to use humanlines to draw human-like text, but for some reason it shows spikes between one path and another. Do you know what may cause this?
The code is here, and here is a tarball for a working version.
Yikes, yeah, that absolutely looks like a bug. My guess is that the randomness added to each spline, which is a constant amount not dependent on the scale of the line, is causing the spikes.
If I change the font size to 900 and the Y coord to 600:
path = font.getPath("lorem ipsum", 0, 600, 900);
The result looks quite a bit better, but the sharp edges are still there.
I think fixing this will require adding some semantic information to the algorithm, so that the lines are not drawn entirely independently as they currently are (e.g., if two lines share a start/ending point, the results should be smooth). I'll take a look next week...
Sorry for the trouble!
Sorry for the trouble!
No problem! That was just a "weekend project" to fiddle with humanlines, no big deal. Interesting project, by the way!