[cairo] Radial shader transformation

[Bill Spitzak]

On Monday 01 March 2004 01:32 pm, Thomas Hunger wrote:
> > I may be wrong, perhaps the current transform applies to the current
> > shader?
>
> Hm. I thought quite a bit about that and came the the result that the
> current transform should apply to the current shader.
> I.e. if you do create horizontal, linear gradient via shader_linear
> (0,y,1,y) and then call rotate(PI/2) the gradient would rotate together
> with the shape.
>
> Did I understand you rightly that in your proposal the gradient would not
> rotate, since it would use the transform frozen at its creation time?

That was what I was proposing, but in fact I realize now it is not a 
necessary restriction, and you are right it could be a pain for cases where 
the shader wants to be moved or scaled to match the current shape.

Instead the shader could be transformed by the difference between the space 
it was defined in and the current transform. This is just the inverse of the 
transform matrix when the shader was defined, multiplied by the current 
transform matrix. You could then use rotate and scale to define a tilted 
ellipse transform, and still scale and translate and even rotate as you draw 
your shapes.

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