[Cuis] Morphic 3 sneak preview

[Juan Vuletich]

Thank you all folks for the warm reception.

If any of you want to help, there are two things that are really needed 
and that don't need diving too deep in the code.

One is to complete the drawing of the character glyphs. Right now, we 
have the lower half, i.e. characters from 33 to 127. We need the upper 
part, using ISO 8859-15, the same glyphs as in Cuis, but in vector form. 
I'm following http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_lettering teaking 
it a bit sometimes. See the attach, install it, and start having fun. 
Some glyphs are easy. For $á, just copy $a and add the acute accent, 
etc. Some curves might be more challenging. Leave them for later.

The other one is vector version of the window decorations and such 
icons. See method category 'drawing-icons' in Morphic3Canvas. All I did 
is to copy the glyph for $d, to have it barely working. Something better 
is needed, with nice looking colors, etc. You can call the methods in 
'trajectories - morph coordinates'.

You might find rough edges and bugs. Please report them! Send your code 
back to the list. Open a Change Sorter and file out 
'UnsavedChangesTo-Morphic3' and send it as an attach.

Also, feel free to dig anywhere in the code, play with the examples, 
etc. Please report suggestions, enhancements, bug reports, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 9/16/2014 3:06 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> My word. It's one thing to look at crisp screenshots, and another 
> entirely to see this in a running system. The rotated browsers. You 
> can read the text diagonally and it still looks fabulous. I didn't 
> expect to feel surprised when I saw this -- having read and understood 
> your description of the algorithm -- but somehow I'm just blown away.
>
> Congratulations on the milestone. I know how much of yourself you've 
> put into this project, and getting this far has got to feel pretty 
> damned good.
>
> Now, let's get this thing rewritten in Slang so we can retire the 
> pixel! Let me know what I can do to help, and I'm all in.
>
> Casey
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Ken Dickey <Ken.Dickey at whidbey.com 
> <mailto:Ken.Dickey at whidbey.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:19:18 -0300
>     Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org <mailto:juan at jvuletich.org>> wrote:
>
>     > It is a great pleasure to share the current state of the Morphic
>     3 code
>     > with you.
>
>     Very cool!!
>
>     Thanks for the preview!
>     -KenD
>
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