Experiment with adjustable arrows. The whole point of my arrows library was to avoid this kind of thing—and let the algorithm "guess" the best arc for an arrow, based on its distance—but this is useful too. 🏹🧵
For comparison, here's the same arrangements (almost) with the guessing algorithm in action.
The library has always supported two options: "bow" defines the minimum arc and "stretch" adds more arc to short arrows. The first GIF is essentially a UI to set the bow of arrows with no stretch. The second GIF is a set of arrows that all have the same non-zero bow and stretch.
It's not exactly that easy, though. In the user-driven example, the handle is determining the arc's direction.
When the arrows flex automatically, the arc direction is based on the relative position of the box centers, among other things.
I'll need to explore more... but it might make sense to split the function into a user-driven vs. automatic version, given that there's a lot less to do when the user is in control of arc and arc direction.
Anyway, that's my arrow tweet thread 😎
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