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- !SpiroDraw v1.02 Aug 2000
- ==========================
-
- This application makes !Draw or sprite files of
- Spirograph patterns. They can be saved or
- dragged directly into !Draw or !Paint.
-
- An icon is installed on the iconbar. Clicking on
- this opens the Options window. Here the radius
- of the fixed and moving circles can be set, and
- the distance of the pen from the centre of the
- moving circle.
-
- The number of teeth on each circle can also be
- set, and the line colour selected from the standard
- desktop colours. White allows the pen to be moved
- without drawing to give partial patterns.
-
- There is a choice of three line widths - chosen so
- that drawing the same pattern in thick and then thin
- - in different colours - gives an interesting effect.
-
- Clicking on OK will show the design, scaled to
- fit in a window. It can be saved by selecting
- Save from the menu. This curve is drawn at the
- chosen size, so allowing several curves to be
- combined in Draw at their proper scale.
-
- The pattern can be seen as it is drawn in the
- preview window. If you close this window, the
- drawing will be faster, and it can be re-opened
- by clicking on the icon-bar icon. It opens
- automatically when the pattern is completed.
-
- Partial designs can be drawn by decreasing the
- 'Loops' value. When either points value is
- changed, the loops value is set to give a
- complete design - you may then decrease it if
- desired.
-
- Different patterns can be combined in the same
- picture, and may use different colours. To start
- again, select Clear from the menu. The scaling
- works best if the largest design is drawn first!
-
- Stop on the menu allows you to stop a long pattern if
- you decide you don't like it.
-
- The pattern may be saved as a sprite or a drawfile, or
- the values used to generate it may be saved as a text
- file, all in the usual manner.
-
- The program multi-tasks while the pattern is being
- drawn.
-
- As always, the best way to see what happens is
- to do it!!
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-
- Updates:
-
- v1.02 : Bug in quick-save menu fixed.
- v1.01 : improved display
- lower limits on number of teeth
- fixed bounding box
- fixed in displaying no of loops
- v1.0 : RO3 Version added
- Bug in cursor movement fixed
- Better choice of colours
- v0.15 : uses RAM save where possible - eg to !Draw, but not !DrawPlus.
- v0.11 : moves correctly between patterns with different
- radii.
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- Any comments/suggestions to
-
- Mrs Rosemary Miskin miskin@argonet.co.uk
- 23 Hardwick Drive
- Loughborough
- LE11 0TJ