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jeffeb3 / sandify

web based user interface to create patterns that could be useful for robots that draw in sand with ball bearings.
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fractional loops #179

Open jeffeb3 opened 4 years ago

jeffeb3 commented 4 years ago

When we loop, we compare to an integer. It makes sense to me to consider that to be a floating point, and then figure out how much of the pattern to draw based on the fractional distance. For example, a 6 sided polygon will produce 9 points if it loops 1.5 times.

This would make some of the other features work better, I think.

bobnik commented 3 years ago

I believe that the current advanced feature "Draw portion of path" replicates this behavior. You can say loop = 5 times, and then specify: draw 50% of path, which only affects the last loop (so it loops 4.5 times). I think partial loops may be more intuitive than having to think of the portion of the last loop, and we could consider refactoring. I just wanted to flag that this functionality exists.

jeffeb3 commented 3 years ago

I agree.

It would be great if 1.1 squares would also interpolate that last line segment too.