Geometric primitives

I reckon I'm not the first one with, but I'm lazy to go through the forum.

Geometric primitives would be useful:

[Line]
- Color
- Start point X, Y coordinates (In % of the related image dimension.)
- End point X, Y coordinates
- Line width

[Box]
- Color
- Top left corner X, Y coordinates
- Bottom right corner X, Y coordinates
- Line width
- bFilled

[Circle]
- Color
- Center X, Y coordinates
- Horizontal radius
- Vertical radius
- Line width
- bFilled

[Triangle]
- Color
- Point1 X, Y coordinates
- Point2 X, Y coordinates
- Point3 X, Y coordinates
- Line width
- bFilled

[Circular polygon]
- Color
- Center X, Y coordinates
- Horizontal radius
- Vertical radius
- Line width
- bFilled
- Number of sides (>=3)

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Zoltan Erdokovy wrote: - Start point X, Y coordinates (In % of the related image dimension.)

The primitives themselves are a nice idea, but the coordinates based on the percentages of image dimensions will lead to different results when the same filter is applied to images with different aspect ratios:

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Zoltan Erdokovy wrote: the other uses pixels

That would kill the resolution independence -- pixel-based coordinates won't work when you apply a filter to a larger or smaller image than the image on which those coordinates were based.

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Zoltan Erdokovy wrote: Or we could use the shortest side of the picture as 1 unit. Then if you want to draw a square, it would remain a square on all aspect ratios, only the coverage would change.

Sounds like our current scheme (a square with the dimensions of Size x Size, with all coordinates measured as a percentage of Size).

The good news is that the primitives (along with some interesting related stuff) are already on our list, but most likely we won't see them implemented into this beta or version 1.0.