I have a friend who's using one of those. Looks like it'd be great for
some things. But there's no way it could replace the subtleties and
physicality of marking on paper with pens, pencils, wood, metal, rubber,
feathers, brush... tho i suppose having a mouse grafted to yr hand for 20
years could get pretty physical too, eh? There is certainly some amazingly
beautiful and expressive computer art and drawing and design people are
doing that could be done no other way -
John
At 06:47 AM 8/16/2005 -0500, you wrote:
JOHN
Have you tried a drawing tablet & a light pen...? I don't use them
because I have a mouse grafted to my right hand from 20 years of
nonstop use, but the drawing tablets are getting more & more refined,
plus you can you it for all your typical mouse actions as well...
On Aug 16, 2005, at 6:20 AM, John M. Bennett wrote:
It does indeed sound like big fun - unfortunately (or maybe not?) I
still
do everything by hand, so to speak - partly by preference (I like the
physicality of writing words backwards or whatever it is I'm doing) but
also because I have some vision problems and looking at a screen gives
me
major headaches and migraines. I read most things by printing them
out. The new flat screens have helped a lot, but it's still a problem
- or not...
Onword,
John
At 09:59 PM 8/15/2005 -0500, you wrote:
This looks like a really fun open source project. Particularly
thrilled
to have another way to generate ascii fonts or even better, it seems
to
have a font editor to make your own ascii font. A lot of the fonts
are
pretty cheesy, but some of the 3d fonts are quite lovely. Do you have
any animations to show us? I couldn't get the animator to output
correctly.
On Aug 15, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Lanny Quarles wrote:
John, I'm using a program called Jave you might
like to play with. It's sort of an ASCII Photoshop.
http://www.jave.de/ Thanks for the kind words.
It has a mirror function so it might allow you to automate
your word flippages if you are still doing those by hand.
you can also convert to gif for anim.s, photoshop fun, etc.
That's how I make the linear arrangements series.
I'd love to see what other people might make with it.
It's an excellent tool for vispo. I'm just trying to
learn it. It's pretty stable. Sometimes it crashes,
and not every single thing in the menu is functional yet.
onwhoard,
lq
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the
cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. -John Ray,
naturalist (1627-1705)
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