> The main drawback of all these techniques [such as PS/AI's 'Puppet Warp'] is that they require running a solver, making them very computationally expensive, which is not ideal in a real-time environment.
What kind of system are these people running this on, I've been grabbing collections of paths in Illustrator and pushing them around in realtime with Puppet Warp for years.
Also I turned off the "automatically generate puppet pins" switch ages ago because it never guessed right and I got tired of deleting a bunch of pins before dropping my own in.
Judging from previous Ink&Switch work, the target devices are likely tablets or below.
There's also various levels of "real-time" - pushing something in Illustrator might require less responsiveness to feel fluid than handwriting feedback.
The draw-to-CAD idea in there is super interesting. I have been trying to learn
CAD over the past few months using FreeCAD. I imagine it would be easier if instead of using structured tools for drawing fixed shapes, one could draw shapes free-hand using pen and tablet. The free hands get transformed into "formal" shapes and then manipulated more. Possibly completely different experience.
> The main drawback of all these techniques [such as PS/AI's 'Puppet Warp'] is that they require running a solver, making them very computationally expensive, which is not ideal in a real-time environment.
What kind of system are these people running this on, I've been grabbing collections of paths in Illustrator and pushing them around in realtime with Puppet Warp for years.
Also I turned off the "automatically generate puppet pins" switch ages ago because it never guessed right and I got tired of deleting a bunch of pins before dropping my own in.
Judging from previous Ink&Switch work, the target devices are likely tablets or below.
There's also various levels of "real-time" - pushing something in Illustrator might require less responsiveness to feel fluid than handwriting feedback.
The draw-to-CAD idea in there is super interesting. I have been trying to learn CAD over the past few months using FreeCAD. I imagine it would be easier if instead of using structured tools for drawing fixed shapes, one could draw shapes free-hand using pen and tablet. The free hands get transformed into "formal" shapes and then manipulated more. Possibly completely different experience.
Love the lab note aesthetic!
I've been playing around in this area recently (in a much more limited way).
This perspective and these notes are absolutely golden.
Confusing landing page. Is this a specific software or a general idea?
It's their lab notes, so it's exploring a general idea, but they're also referencing previous software they've built (like crosscut)