[Morphic] Morph 3.0

[Jerome Peace]

Hi Juan,

Two thought have just come together and I am excited.

>From morphic 3.o I was looking at the ivars for
Location
and comparing them to problems I've been working thru
with making polygons tilt just like rectanges and
ellipses.

The problem I noticed with Location was that you had
angle but no scale.

>From my work with polygons I know that angle and scale
are natural partners.

xextent and yextent are not substitutes. Indeed they
cause ambiguity because unless you look at the works
you wonder if you turn the morph first then apply the
extent scalers or the other way around. 

What I found was in any given operation you had to
choose rotate and scale 
or 
stretch and reflect (That's what should happen when
one of the extent scalers go negative)


The other decision I realized from my work with
polygons was to get polygons to truely rotate (with
their submorphs doing the same thing) I had to collect
the submorphs refernce locations and subject them to
the same transformation as the polygon (rotate and
scale or stretch and reflect) 

So the insight as I put your work and mine together
came in the form of a question:

Do morphs have locations or do locations have morphs?


Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace

 


       
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