Add a mode to running stitch that uses randomized phase and stitch length instead of even spacing. This greatly reduces moire effects when stitching closely-spaced curves in running-stitch-based fills.
Add option for randomized running stitch to:
ripple stitch
circular fill
contour fill
guided fill
auto-fill
When is randomization is not selected, ripple stitch will use even running stitch when staggers are set to 0 (default) and the stagger algorithm from guided fill (which does not look nice with a stagger period of 0) when staggers is nonzero.
Also includes fix for satin contour underlays (missing tolerance default) mentioned in #2814. This sets the default tolerance to 0.2mm, which is the largest tolerance guaranteed to be backwards-compatible with existing designs using the default inset of 0.4mm.
Original commits:
* fix satin underlay tolerance default
* Add randomized running stitch, make available in ripple stitch, circular, and contour
* add randomized guided fill
* make ripple stitch use even stitching when not staggering or randomizing.
* add random auto-fill and switch jitter parameter to a percentage (matches satin)
* fix comments
* avoid duplicated points in make_spiral
* circular fill: add end_row_spacing, repeats and bean repeats
* fix circular fill if original shape is a circle
* add unit info to scale value in ripple stitch
* fix apply threadlist with empty description
* fix satin type ripple with unequal nodes
* fix legacy auto_fill conversion
* inform about too small meander shapes
* guide line position
* use direction from line to shape
* optimize intersection detection
* fix flapack elf
* handle weird guide lines better
* update starting point for self crossing (multiple) fills
* ripple: fixes and non circular join style
* avoid jumps in ripple stitch
* fallback only necessary if shape does not intersect grating
* make valid may return a polygon
* add profiling
* Stitch.__init__ didn't work right and was super slow
* shrink or grow to multipolygon
Co-authored-by: Lex Neva
* fix lettering scale
* adapt to updated inkex: transform operator, selections
* fix#1597
* no traceback error message on broken satin columns
* highlight troubleshoot "steps to solve" through additional headline
* set a minimum value for running stitch repeats
* rename "import" thread list to "apply" thread list
* update for inkscape 1.0
* add about extension
* Build improvements for the inkscape1.0 branch (#985)
* zip: export real svg not stitch plan
* #411 and #726
* Tools for Font Creators (#1018)
* ignore very small holes in fills
* remove embroider (#1026)
* auto_fill: ignore shrink_or_grow if result is empty (#589)
* break apart: do not ignore small fills
Co-authored-by: Hagen Fritsch <rumpeltux-github@irgendwo.org>
Co-authored-by: Lex Neva <github.com@lexneva.name>
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