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Understanding fill rules

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Understanding fill rules

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- [Instructor] Inkscape has to decide what to do with the fill of an object when a path overlaps itself or when sub-paths within a compound path overlap. Should the overlaps appear as holes or should they be filled with a fill color? And that's what we'll look at in this movie. So you have two choices for fill rules that you can see in Inkscape's Fill dialogue. They are the even/odd rule and the non-zero rule and these are strange names, but let's see if we can make them clear. The even/odd rule will make holes every time a sub-path sits inside a compound path or when the path intersects itself. The second rule, the non-zero rule, will only create holes when a sub-path has the opposite direction as the path that sits inside or overlaps. So let's see an example. Here on the left is a scribble that I drew with the pencil tool. It's one path with a lot of self-intersections, places where the path crosses itself. So…

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