[CREATE] assets library

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 09:19 -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
> Interesting... I see Jon's reply, but did not see Kai-Uwe's original  
> mail...
> 
> On Sep 28, 2007, at 1:35 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 06:52 +0200, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> >> Am 27.09.07, 20:07 -0700 schrieb Jon A. Cruz:
> >>
> >>> "swatch". It's not just a color, it's a "sample" or "material".  
> >>> It could be a
> >>
> >> IMO it seems a good point you make about the swatches terminology.
> >> Anyway defining the basics is a good step forward. And the first  
> >> where
> >> colour.
> >>
> >> Possibly the early versions of the swatches spec can handle just  
> >> colour,
> >> but with a clear proposition to be extensible later?
> 
> I'd suggest strongly that good definitions of terms up front would  
> really help. Also finding out what *might* be needed in the near  
> future. Getting that info might allow us to bring more things in now.
> 
> So we could start filling out that "swatch" is a sample/material. It  
> might only be a color, but it might be more. The key here, I think,  
> is that we define that we're doing a "swatch book" standard, not just  
> a "a way to list a simple set of colors"
> 
> <swatchBook name="fred">
>      <color name="one">
>          <label>stop 00</label>
>          <sRGB r="0" g="20" b="49" a="127"/>
>      </color>
> 
>      <color name="two">
>          <label>stop 01</label>
>          <sRGB r="255" g="20" b="0" a="255"/>
>      </color>
> 
>      <linearGradient name=">
>          <label>Smooth</label>
>          <stop offset="0%" color="one">
>          <stop offset="60%" color="two">
>      <l/inearGradient>
> </swatchBook>
> 

This is totally brilliant jon...this will allow for the open swatch
book! I want to get some of these done and printed in time for the next
LGM!

> 
> >
> >> Thus a colour selector can pick a swatches_spec patch and look at its
> >> colour and modify it, simply passing through the other material
> >> properties. A more in depth swatch_spec renderer could show the
> >> proper result simultaneously. Ok, thats for an other specification.
> 
> Right. Although I'd say that a color picker would not edit swatches  
> that are more than color, but could get a base color from them (aka  
> read-only).

Aha...good...

Jon

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