[Ipe-discuss] simplify path feature?

[Jason Miller]

Thanks!

I would be personally happy with something even much simpler: namely an ipelet which converts a path made with the pen tool to a spline and keeps only 1 out of every k points where k is a user input.  (Paths made with a stylus seem to have such a huge number of points that one can take k quite large and still get something which looks almost exactly the same as the original path.)  In other words, it does not even have to be particularly smart about deciding which points to keep when simplifying the path.

Best wishes,

Jason

> On Apr 11, 2016, at 11:10 AM, Otfried Cheong <otfried at ipe.airpost.net> wrote:
> 
> Simplifying the curve when you draw with the pen is on my to-do list for
> the next version.  I shouldn't be too hard to add an ipelet to simply a
> curve afterwards as well - I don't think there is one publicly available
> right now (would be a good exercise to learn to write ipelets :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Otfried
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016, at 01:05, Nathaniel Cunningham wrote:
>> +1 for this ipelet request!  (Don't know of one already available)
>> 
>> -- Nathaniel
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Jason Miller <jasonpmil at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I was wondering if there exists an ipelet that would be able to simplify a
>>> path that contains a huge number of points?  I have created some ipe
>>> drawings using a stylus on my computer and the result is always very large
>>> because ipe records such a high density of points.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Jason
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