Cutting out what you draw
A field of stripes shown through two cut-outs: a disc from the nonzero rule, and a frame from the even-odd rule over two nested rectangles.
One drawing, placed many times
One badge built as a drawing and placed eight times, plus once at half size: the file holds the drawing once, however many times it is placed.
One badge — a frame, a coloured head, a mark — built once as a drawing and then placed eight times, plus once more at half size. The file holds the drawing once however many times it appears, and each placing costs a name and a handful of numbers saying where and at what size.
This is the answer to a logo on every page of a two-hundred-page document, or a stamp in every cell of a grid. The names on the badges are drawn by the page over the drawing, because they are what differs between them — the shared part goes in the drawing, the varying part stays outside it.
What this example shows
- A drawing described once, then placed by naming it and saying where.
- The same drawing placed at another size without describing it again.
- Varying text drawn over the shared drawing, not inside it.
The code, in full
The same document is written twice, once in each language. Both files are shown in full, with the code coloured on the server, and can be copied in one click.
The document itself
The same document is written in each of these languages. Open the one you want to look at.
What this document weighs
| Before | 111,086 bytes |
|---|---|
| Now | 40,758 bytes |
| Saved | 63.3 % |
Not one mark on the page changed. See every document measured.
Examples near this one
Transparency and blend modes
Half-transparent fills that overlap and mix, and one orange square laid over a blue bar in four different ways of mixing colours.
Gradients in a line and in a circle
Gradients in a line and in a circle painted into boxes the page cuts out: a two-colour blend across and another on the diagonal, a circular one whose outer colour is carried out to the corners, and one passing through three colours.
Text and shapes filled with a gradient
A gradient used as the colour something is filled with: a headline whose letters are windows onto a blend of three colours, and a panel filled with a circular one.
Content shown and hidden by layer
One floor plan on four layers a reader shows and hides: the furniture and the dimensions shown, the notes hidden until asked for, and a draft mark that is looked at but never printed.
One pattern, repeated across whatever it fills
Six panels filled with repeating patterns — bars, dots, a slant got without redrawing the pattern, a brick wall, two patterns crossing, a wider gap — and a logo whose letters are windows onto the bricks.