[cairo] Path Gradients

[MenTaLguY]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:15:51 -0800, Bobby Salazar <bobby8934 at inbox.com> wrote:
> However, there is one situation (that is my main interest in the path
> gradient) that I cannot figure out how to map to these "Type 6" gradient
> meshes. This situation is where you have a path, and you want to make a
> gradient from an abitrary "center point" out to the edges, with color
> stops along the way. Can you think of an easy way to use a "Type 6"
> gradient mesh to reproduce the gradients seen in these images:
> 
> http://www.bobpowell.net/pgb.ht4.jpg
> http://www.bobpowell.net/pgb.ht6.jpg

There isn't an "easy" way to do it; there are various standard ways
of algorithmically approximating an arbitrary 2d function with coons
patches though.  The important thing is that such an approximation is
*possible*.

-mental