Re: [Bf-committers] Alternate Proposal - Meta-Sculpting

2012-04-04 Thread Jason Wilkins
Is there no interest in this idea or did I fail to explain it well enough? On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jason Wilkins jason.a.wilk...@gmail.com wrote: I'll have a chance to write up both of my proposals in detail by early Thursday I hope.  I'm submitting an alternate proposal because I've

Re: [Bf-committers] Alternate Proposal - Meta-Sculpting

2012-04-04 Thread CG Cookie
I am not a developer and so I cannot comment on the feasibility of this as a GSOC project, but I love the proposal from a user perspective! The Disney research videos are incredible. I can see a lot of potential to this kind of system. -- Jonathan Williamson Instructor -

Re: [Bf-committers] Alternate Proposal - Meta-Sculpting

2012-04-04 Thread Sean Olson
I think a picture is worth a 1000 words, and a video is worth 10,000. Here is the link to implicit canvas youtube video and paper so you guys can see what it's all about. youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZh3NLx4mzA paper: http://zurich.disneyresearch.com/OverCoat/ Looks exciting to

Re: [Bf-committers] Alternate Proposal - Meta-Sculpting

2012-04-04 Thread Jason Wilkins
We are in agreement about not focusing on the non-photorealistic rendering aspects of this paper. I'm not even especially interested in the implicit surface aspect where they do layers, hair, and features. I'd focus on saving strokes and being able to modify those strokes, and being able to

Re: [Bf-committers] Alternate Proposal - Meta-Sculpting

2012-04-04 Thread Jason Wilkins
And thanks for posting that video and paper. I shied away from it because although it shows what I mean in terms of saving strokes, it uses them to do the non-photorealistic rendering, which I think is neat, but would not be the focus of my proposal. On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Sean Olson

Re: [Bf-committers] Alternate Proposal - Meta-Sculpting

2012-04-04 Thread jonathan d p ferguson
hi. Jason: Meta-Sculpting is a very interesting idea, both in the simplified retain brush stroke input and in a form closer to the implicit canvas. As an observer, I would like to comment that retaining brush stroke input is valuable information, and can lead to many interesting

[Bf-committers] Alternate Proposal - Meta-Sculpting

2012-04-03 Thread Jason Wilkins
I'll have a chance to write up both of my proposals in detail by early Thursday I hope. I'm submitting an alternate proposal because I've been made aware that work on a portable device Blender may cause too many conflicts. I understand that the two proposals might make very different decisions