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Re: [Swarm Modelling] painting apps
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Jason Alexander |
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Re: [Swarm Modelling] painting apps |
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Sun, 16 Feb 2003 00:14:12 +0000 |
It's not quite as fancy as Canvas but if you install fink you can run
xfig. It can export to EPS, PDF, MetaFont and several other formats.
Xfig lets you import bitmaps and put line art over them, too. It's
interface is a bit dated but, overall, it's a powerful program and
generally what I turn to first before looking elsewhere.
Cheers,
Jason
Two nights ago, I moved in a .jpg from Mapquest of my neighborhood,
set its transparency to 50%, used Bezier curves to trace over the
important streets in my neighborhood, used the clip-on text feature to
attach street names that followed the curve of the street, and had a
custom professional looking map of my neighborhood for my girlfriend.
The text is spell checked, but I can still extrude it into three
dimensions, texture it, and set a color gradient through it. It can
do a lot of the work of Photoshop, including accepting plugins. And,
you can do drawing (like precision vector work), painting (resulting
in bitmaps from a variety of brushes, etc), and photo work in one
package. Absolutely amazing tool that I use constantly. Also, the
customer support is solid.
--
J. McKenzie Alexander
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE