Layout

 http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/randomB0.svg
        
rows and columns
rows and columns
<g>
<g transform="translate(0,900)">
<ellipse […] />
<replicate  repeatCount="15" >
    <replicateAttribute attributeName="transform" values="translate(0,900);translate(0,-68)"  />
</replicate>
</g>
<replicate  repeatCount="15" >
    <replicateAttribute attributeName="transform" values="translate(1480,0);translate(0,0)"  />
</replicate>
</g>      
http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/R1.svg        

Multiple transforms
transforming scale and translation
[…]
<svgr:replicate  repeatCount="15" >
    <svgr:replicateAttribute attributeName="transform" values="translate(0,900) scale(1,1);translate(0,300) scale(.8,0)"  />
</svgr:replicate>
</g>     
http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/R2.svg        Correlating vertical scale with vertical position.    



  
Replication with skew and keysplines
<svgr:replicate repeatCount="15" >
<svgr:replicateAttribute attributeName="transform" values="translate(-450, 0) skewX(-20);translate(750,0) skewX(30)" />
[...]
<svgr:replicateAttribute attributeName="transform" values="translate(520, 840) scale(1.1,.8);translate(595,400) scale(.45,.1)" keySplines="0,0 .2,.7  1,1"/>
http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/R3.svg        Perspective effect    


        


following a curve with normal deviates 
<ellipse cy="-200" ry="8" rx="9"  stroke-opacity=".5" stroke-width="4" stroke="black" >
<svgr:random attributeName="transform" min="translate(-240,-300)" max="translate(240,300)" distribution="normal"/>
<svgr:replicate repeatCount="800">
	<svgr:replicatePath xlink:href="#curve" xattribute="cx" yattribute="cy" />
</svgr:replicate>
</ellipse>
<path  id = "curve" fill="none" stroke = "#501" stroke-width = "5" 
d = "M 140 450 S 190,364 290,470 540,552 610,320  700,590 1210,520 "  />     
http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/R4.svg     Random normal departures from a curve