It would be really neat if there was a drawing tool that
allowing a turtle / logo type programme as input, and would
draw the output on the canvas of inkscape.
Something along the lines of another button on the drawing
tools, when clicked on, opens up a code window where a
turtle programme can be written / loaded. When the turtle
programme is run, the resulting lines that the turtle
programme usually draws would be made into nodes /
lines in inkscape, where the user could then edit them.
A simple example might be to draw a line that looks like a
set of stairs. Consider the following code
# draws a set of stairs
repeat 10 [
turnleft 90
forward 40
turnright 90
forward 30
]
This is pretty simple to programme, but could take some
time to draw by hand using the inkscape tools. I see that
this, plus the far more advanced things you can do with
turtle could be a valuable addition to inkscape, while being
very little work to build, as the source for both gnome turtle
and kturtle is available and all the tool has to do is to draw
lines from one point to the next point where the direction
has changed.
I'd be happy to hear all comments, as have just thought of
this idea during linux.conf.au 2005.
SVG itself is already a XML-based scripting language. I am not so sure if
there is any translator between XSL/SVG and Logo.