drafts

now you are going in both direction with in increasing speed, while when you go back you to start fast and end slow:

def linear(factor):
    return factor

def easeIn(factor):
    return factor*factor

def easeOut(factor):
    return factor * (2-factor)


steps = 100

blockWidth = width() / steps


for func in [linear, easeIn, easeOut]:
    newPage(2000, 1000)
    for i in range(steps):
        factor = i / (steps-1)
        factor = func(factor)
        rect(0, 0, blockWidth, height() * factor)    
        translate(blockWidth, 0)    
    
    for i in range(steps):
        factor = i / (steps-1)
        # go the other way around
        factor = func(1 - factor)
        rect(0, 0, blockWidth, height() * factor)    
        translate(blockWidth, 0)   

I don't know why but my wild guess is it has todo with drawing ovals at more extreme w, h ratios, when the points are on the extremes you will need a pushing point in the middle to nice curve back.

@gferreira you method only works for circles...

the drawBot RoboFont extension has points on the extremes, cause the context is type... see https://github.com/typemytype/drawBotRoboFontExtension/blob/master/DrawBot.roboFontExt/lib/glyphContext.py#L23

see the big difference when the oval is getting thinner...

def straightOval(x, y, w, h):
        c = 0.55
        hx = w * c * .5
        hy = h * c * .5
        path = BezierPath()
        path.moveTo((x + w * .5, y))
        path.curveTo((x + w * .5 + hx, y), (x + w, y + h * .5 - hy), (x + w, y + h * .5))
        path.curveTo((x + w, y + h * .5 + hy), (x + w * .5 + hx, y + h), (x + w * .5, y + h))
        path.curveTo((x + w * .5 - hx, y + h), (x, y + h * .5 + hy), (x, y + h * .5))
        path.curveTo((x, y + h * .5 - hy), (x + w * .5 - hx, y), (x + w * .5, y))
        path.closePath()
        drawPath(path)
        

x, y, w, h = 10, 10, 8.0, 146.0


oval(x, y, w, h)
straightOval(x + w + 10, y, w, h)

hello @ryan,

I dont’t know why the extremes are angled…

here’s a way to get the desired result by modifying oval:

def twist(func, angle):
    def wrapper(x, y, w, h):
        with savedState():
            translate(x + w/2, y + h/2)
            rotate(angle)
            func(-w/2, -h/2, w, h)
    return wrapper

oval = twist(oval, 45)

when working with BezierPath, it’s possible to rotate the shape:

B = BezierPath()
B.oval(x, y, w, h)
B.rotate(45, (x + w/2, y + h/2))

hope this helps!

@michelangelo you can use DrawBot inside RoboFont with the DrawBot extension

you can get point labels in RoboFont with:

glyph = CurrentGlyph()

for contour in glyph:
    for point in contour.points:
        print(point.labels)

I dont know Glyhps but you can always do this in RoboFont with point labels!!!

you can use the FlattenPen from fontPens.

from fontPens.flattenPen import FlattenPen

# create an empty path
dest = BezierPath()
# create flatten pen that will draw into the dest bezierPath
pen = FlattenPen(dest, approximateSegmentLength=30, segmentLines=True)

# draw into the flatten pen
pen.moveTo((100, 100))
pen.curveTo((100, 150), (150, 200), (200, 200))
pen.endPath()

# create an other path
path = BezierPath()
# draw an oval
path.oval(200, 200, 200, 200)
# draw the path with oval in the flatten pen
path.drawToPen(pen)

# set stroke and fill
stroke(0)
fill(None)
# draw the dest
drawPath(dest)

to learn more about pens and how to use them see https://robofont.com/documentation/how-tos/using-pens/

this should be resolved in the latest update!!!

two things:

why generate a binary and read the the binary back in? see f1.generate("otfcff", "f1.otf")

Give you new font a unique name based on the interp_factor. The font familyName and styleName makes up the postScriptName which has to be unique to set a font in drawBot (and everywhere else). In your case the font familyName and styleName will be "None" "None". This is not good...

DrawBot has an abstract stack of "actions" which can be applied on different contexts. One context is your output: an animated gif. And there is always a drawBot context to create the preview pdf data.

Using drawBot from the module helps in this case as @gferreira suggested.