On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 13:57 +0100, yahvuu wrote: [...] > GIMP's focus is on artistic needs. Whether a blend mode is useful or not, > can only a judged from an artistical point of view. If you want to model > physical reality with GIMP means, be careful to check whether the actually > implemented math is suitable for your case. Come on, how many artists do you know who will have enough of a background in mathematics and physics to have a hope of doing that? You might as well tell a bunch of engineering students that they need to consider the interaction between the æsthetics of composition and socio-political emotive responses. The overlap is non-zero, some do have a hope, but it's not OK to make it into a barrier. > Of course, it is not by accident that certain formulas which model the physics > of light do turn out to be useful in GIMP. But i believe it is misleading to > think of blend modes in terms of correct or incorrect. Here we agree :-) Best, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
