5/24/11

I'm getting a lot done, and learning even more. The SVG path tag is so complex, that it can do anything that any other visual tag , such as circle, polygon, or rectangle, can do. I thought that the path tutorial would go quickly, but I am having to stop and learn again and again. This tutorial covers paths really well: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/paths.html, but as the "getting down with" tutorials are only basic tutorials, I am only going to cover a fraction of what you can do with curves, namely lines, polygons, and simple curves. Mastering curves especially, would mean explaining a lot of math, not something to do in a basic tutorial. I am almost finished with tutorial 4 (paths), and I think I'm done with tutorial 5, where I added a section on embedding conventional (.jpg, .gif, .png) picture files into SVG. After I'm done with paths, I'll take a break, work on the pyBook or something else for a little while.