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Ricard
specific question about Linkology
Apr 19th, 2006, 11:40pm  
I just saw Linkology in a blog.  Very nice!

I had a specific question about the result in PDF form.

if ( it's done using Processing )
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I noticed that the arcs aren't vectorial, but pixels.  Is there a specific reason for this? Saving PDF rendering time?
How did you make your fonts vectorial? Using PFont?

Am I making to many questions?
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I am trying to create PDFs with lines made of many small semitransparent segments and I'm running into small problems because I don't want to use line_strips when I zoom I see the joints between them.

The reason I don't use line_strips is because I like to see the advancement of the rendering while it get's done and since I have many many vertexes I don't want to have them all in memory and redraw them each time.

Any ideas?

thanks
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fry
Re: specific question about Linkology
Reply #1 - Apr 20th, 2006, 2:54am  
it's all done with processing using the pdf lib, more info and a better image here:
http://benfry.com/linking/
you might be looking at the image on the nymag site, which is really low res.

i'm using strokeCap(SQUARE) to minimize the amount of intersection on the lines, which are indeed transparent. for lines that are a little thinner than 1pt, this works fine.

(edited to clarify re: original)
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