[CREATE] What is a gradient?

[Cyrille Berger]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Olivier BERTEN wrote:
> I mean, in graphic design/visual art, not in mathematics.
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> Is it limited to color? 3 samples: http://www.selapa.net/create/
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> Do you think these are gradients, why?

It's neither a pattern nor a gradient, it's a composition of a gradient with a 
pattern:

http://cyrille.diwi.org/tmp/krita/gradient.png
http://cyrille.diwi.org/tmp/krita/gradient.kra

That said gradients are not limited to colors, wikipedia gives a good 
definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient . You can imagine all sort 
of gradients for "shapes" or "colors" or whatever.

-- 
Cyrille Berger