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Blending paths - Inkscape Tutorial
From the course: Inkscape Essential Training
Blending paths
- [Narrator] Let's see how to blend paths in Inkscape with the Interpolate command. You can find Interpolate in the Extensions menu under Generate From Path. And this is the command you can use in Inkscape to make blends of two paths. It can blend just the shapes of the paths, or the shapes and the formatting. In this first exercise file for this movie, I have a pair of open paths, which are really just squiggly lines, but they're good for illustrating what Interpolate does. So I'll take the selector tool and Shift + click to select both of these paths, and go to Extensions, Generate From Path, Interpolate. And the dialogue lets me turn on a live preview so I can see the effect. In the current version of Inkscape, the Interpolate command displays a lot of alert messages like this, but you can simply dismiss them since the command itself works just fine. And right away I'm seeing the shapes are blending, but not the…
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