Next we need to make all the little warped grid areas into individual paths. Part II: Breaking the ball into component pieces Select your now-warped grid and your ellipse (you may have to re-center them), then do Path>Combine. Select the grid, then select the ellipse (this order is important) then do Effects>Modify Path>Bezier Envelope.Ħ. Select the ellipse and the grid and center them on your page.ĥ. Draw an ellipse and set the stroke to 1 and the dimensions to 500x500. With the square selected do Effects>Render>Grid with line width 1, horizontal spacing 25 and vertical spacing 25, offsets at zero.ģ. Draw a square and set the stroke to 1 and the dimensions to 501x501.Ģ. Much thanks to Heathenx and RFGuerin for all their instructional videos. Before getting started I should point out that this tutorial requires the Bezier Envelope extension seen in this heathenx screencast ( )and can be found here ( ).

The question was 'Can Inkscape do this?' The answer, as almost always seems to be the case, is 'Yes, but maybe not in that way.' In this case, I think the Inkscape way is less intuitive but more straight-forward, if such a thing is possible.

This tutorial was made in response to a question about using Inkscape to accomplish the effects seen in the Illustrator tutorial ( ).

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