[cairo] Circular Ring Gradient

[Adrian Johnson]

On 11/05/17 06:27, cecashon at aol.com wrote:
> Hi Cairo folks,
> 
> What is the best way to make a circular gradient in a ring? I have tried
> using both a Bezier approximation to a circle and just using trapezoids.
> The trapezoids work fine if I have 16 of them and then clip the ring. A
> little problem with not having continuous values in a ring so if I cut
> the ring at a particular location it has to be at the end of a trapezoid
> section if I want the gradient to fill to the end. Otherwise it looks to
> work well. Think there might be an easier way to do this though so I am
> asking about it. Has anyone had good success drawing circular gradients
> in a ring? I am looking to be able to add some Cairo gradients to a
> gauge widget so efficiency would be a good thing if the gauge needed to
> work with a frame clock.

Mesh patches can have Bézier curved sides. A circle can be approximated
with 8 Bézier curves. A ring can be created with 8 patches. See attached
example and output.
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