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paint property blending: multiply

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Description

## Motivation
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator allow to set the blending to multiply. Actually a really nice feature for showing data heatmap like visualizations. But in contrast to heatmaps, you dont lose the shape of your original data.
Imagine: You paint hundrets of lines on to the map. Now you set in the paint property `line-blending` to `multiply`and you get a wonderful visualization, more accurate than heatmaps, but still the density.

I would love this feature in Mapbox GL and in the Mapbox studio editor!

Sincerely
Simon

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Start by locating the paint-property rendering path for line-blending and the Mapbox Studio editor support requested in the issue. Define how a multiply blend should behave for painted lines and verify the result against the heatmap-style visualization described by the reporter.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, typescript
Domain
frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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