You know, there’s a feeling you get when you know all a program’s features — including hot keys — that I think few people have experienced lately.
SuperPaint. A one-meg program from 1993. I know by muscle memory everything it can do. Vector graphics. Bitmap graphics. Transparency and fill-modes on both. All palettes accessible via hotkey. Filters. Vector textures. And, most importantly, drag-stretching a vector object is treated differently from other transformations. What I mean is this: In a normal draw program, if you stretch a 45-degree rotated square, you get a squat diamond shape. In SuperPaint, the “stretch” applies to the original square, before the rotation applies, so that you get an elongated, tilted rectangle.
This one trivial attribute of SuperPaint’s internal logic makes it the most perfect available program for drawing Isometric. No other vector graphics tool I have used works this way.
With online cartoonists, you can go back through their archives and watch their knowledge of their software get progressively cruder. While their latest work, if they’ve been doing it long enough, shows a really refined usage of their software. Assuming they’re not Steve. It’s like there are all these different media out there — the way traditional artists learn oils, acrylic, water colors, we learn PhotoShop, Flash, or whatever. Because it all comes out through the computer screen, there’s an illusion of unity.
Anyways.
….thats just wrong. :-(
yeah, some people have to strive for perfection…others hit it head-on from the start.
haha whatever. Teach me to ramble un-entertainingly …Hey I hope no one thinks I drew that killyourchild pic… that was L0cke. I draw more like http://fojar.com/~miles/child.gif
OMG WVU2!–Alex
I’m working on.. umm… NOTHING! DO NOT PURSUE THIS MATTER ANY FURTHER!Umm, it’s totally sweet, we should get lunch sometime, and I could show you.Yindo looks pretty cool… I couldn’t get it to run on my work machine though… just sat there and did nothing :(WT is still cool… but their next version has been long promised and long absent… so we shall see. Have you seen mapstream.com? It’s pretty neat. Screw mapquest.We’re going to be using flash for our UI, but we could use anything.Email me at alex@outhink.com and lets get lunch damn it!–Alex
my gift to you, mileshttp://www.fojar.com/~dennisc/acrylic.gifi kill your child inside of me!
get back to your hive-cluster, drone! If you *snap* I mean, how’s it going anyway, alex? What are you coding on? Hey, have you seen Yindo? It looks kickass: http://www.yindo.comI like how all its built-in technologies are wide open. IMO that gives it a better chance of success than the proprietary, marketing-heavy WildTangent. (watch you shoot me down on that one…)
um, that was disturbing..hey miles, you’re not the only one who’s fucked up, I spent 5 1/2 hours yesterday thinking about religion, beetween classes and the lecture on religion and politics in China. acckk!! actually, you probably woud’ve enjoyed the lecture, it was all about the Falungong "movement" and Qi Gong. I thought of you..
yeah, no kidding, guh!…. I forgot how raw that image is. I actually meant to use this one:
mussst typppeee codeee… mussst finishhh programmmzzz…*snap*Huh? Wha? Where am I? I am not a drone!–Alex