Scaling

[Arne Hanna]

Hi folks,

As the nodes themselves are fixed in size there's a limit to how closely they can be positioned

while still maintaining visual clarity vis a vis the network.  Of course if the objective of doing so is to

speed up the events one can always simply increase the tempo.  But if I have two self contained

networks and I wish to scale one of them by a factor of n times the minimum grid size then I'm going to

have to do this one node at a time.  So I was thinking that it would be great to have, in some future release

of Nodal a scaling function whereby one could select a network or part thereof and instantly double (for example)

the distances between the nodes with respect to the grid.  Something akin to the scaling function in a graphics

program like Illustrator is what I'm thinking of. 

Thoughts anyone?

Cheers

Arne

[Jon McCormack]

Hi Arne,

This idea is one we're considering for a future release. We'd like to add general graphical transformations - scale, rotate and translate - with ways of snapping to things like integer multiples or snaps to beats/principles, so to scale a network by a factor of 2 would be easy, just select the nodes you want to transform, click on the transform tool, and manipulate similar to what you would do in illustrator.

Regards,

Jon