Sunday, October 19, 2008
ILoveSketch
dgp.toronto.edu: "A 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing them to iterate directly on concept 3D curve models."
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This is so neat. The trouble with sketching on a computer is that you have to change your whole way of drawing to get the same look. This looks like a way to draw that mimicks more a pencil and paper.
This is real cool, it allows the user to draw as with a pen and pencil, but using what i assume to be a few sensical commands, draw things as you woukld on a peice of paper, though then manipulate them in a 3d world as a 3d model. The idea that strikes me on this one, is how much this is like the UCS in AutoCAD in the way the user can change their perspective on the object in order to draw things in a way the makes more sense to them. and then manipulate the drawing so that it can be viewed and manipulated in a completely different orientation later on.
This looks like a really well-made program, and from the video, it looks like it works pretty well. I'd be a bit worried about the learning curve on it, though, because there are a lot of different modes, commands, and gestures to learn in order to operate it. Once you master it, though, it seems like a great program.
often there is an issue where ideas a created in the mind and fully realized mentally, but cannot be produced outside the mind because there is no medium or way of demonstrating these ideas. this program seems like another way to demonstrate those ideas from the brain to paper. hopefully with this program and more like it, ideas will not have to be simplified or changed because there isn't the technology to support them.
This is the next step towards digital art taking over as the primary medium for visual artists and designers. Not only are programs starting to be able to do things that we can do in real life (i.e. 3d oil texturing and true watercolor effects in Corel Painter X), but they're also starting to be able to do the things we would never be able to do (i.e. animated 3d models and stress analysis in AutoCAD Inventor). It's starting to get to the point where i'm painting or drawing in real life, screw up, and automatically reach for the CTRL-Z that isn't really there.
This seems like a great product for people who are more familiar and comfortable with the idea of realizing their projects with pencil and paper, partly because they do not know how to use technology to achieve what they are visualizing. This tool seems like it would not only be simple to use but give results that are similar to what can be achieved with conventional methods.
This sounds like a really cool idea. It would be great to combine this with something similar to AutoCAD, and if you can create a 3-d rendering of something in ILoveSketch, and then transfer it to a different file, and have it draft the object in several views automatically. That might not be ideal for all cases, but I think it would be pretty cool.
This is like a wacom tablet on crack. If you haven't seen one before they are @ http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/21UX.cfm. My animator friends use them for cell editing after scanning in all their hand drawn work. This though is just plain awesome. Me want. I wonder how hard it would be to get use to outputting to a projector so that you can draw on the table but watch a very large version on a wall of what your doing. Just how we get to not watching ourselves use keyboards or mice. Probably day dreamin.
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