Re: [ft-devel] Autohinter: stem darkening, first rough prototype

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

> The look of the function is documented and it blows my mind. I want to
> know what they smoked. You simply cannot find such beasts in nature
> short of quantum mechanics. I simply cannot trust that it was
> optimized rationally by looking at the rendering results, because
> optimizing in 8-dimensional space is not for humans and their eyes. My
> head explodes when I look at this function and I have this feeling in
> my mouth. I am scared and I cannot dare to touch it. God bless those
> who want to tune it.

Could you implement your curve in the context of 
af_loader_compute_darkening() and send it to me? Because my brain 
currently doesn't grok the math behind character and device-pixel space 
conversion ;D Then we can compare and see what's better :)