Oooh, #GraphiteEditor has the node graph functionality, which allows you to compose vector objects from the primitives like fill, stroke, transform and live filters in a visual manner!
Node graph interface and filters both give me this nice break-out I needed after LPEs in #Inkscape. Don't get me wrong: that program is THE legend, developers are masters of vectors, and it's purely native Gtk toolkit on which application is built. Right now, their priority is CMYK support, so follow if you're into printing.
I just love to experiment with shiny new software that's #OpenSource, especially one that uses #RustLang and #web to its advantage.
Watch 'em apply circular repeat filter on a mere line to produce this fun sparkle effect. (It is Graphite's official channel, by the way. Wish they were on Mastodon?)
Are you an #Affinity Designer user? Are you an #inkscape user too? Do you want to help the community?
Well do I have a job for you!
I've made a How To guide for building a keyboard shortcut profile and if you make one for #AffinityDesigner I will add it to Inkscape and millions of people will get the option of using a keyboard preference more comfortable to their existing Affinity habits.
So I managed to do a thing. I think Wine 9.0 must have introduced some big fixes because #Affinity Designer works now! With some tweaking, of course, but it's pretty cool to see nonetheless.
Designer v2 is still a no-go, relying very heavily on new Windows features that haven't been replicated yet in Wine; unfortunately, most of my files are now in v2 format so this isn't an ideal solution. Still, I can use v1 again, and that's better than nothing.
Anyone still think those one-time #affinity licenses are here to stay after the #canva acquisition? (See https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/canva-press-release/) Any guesses how long before Affinity users are training Canva's mass-market product to replace them? The only safe harbor for ownership of your work, data, and tools is #opensource. It's not too late to learn and contribute to @inkscape@GIMP@krita@Blender et al
#GraphiteEditor is a web-based vector editing application that is available online and can be self-hosted. Another neat part is that object handles and other parts of the user interface assist those coming from premium offerings like #Affinity#AffinityDesigner, #Illustrator.
If one is confident with the stack, they could even fork the thing, rebrand to their organization's needs, port the incoming patches (while committing back, hopefully) and not worry about the upstream developer going south somewhere along the way.
While he started three years prior, Otto Lilienthal took the invented glider on his first successful flight in 1894. It wasn't much more than 7 Seconds, but his achievement changed the world of aviation forever. Even the Wright brothers been well aware of the "flying man" from Berlin, but the TNYT missed to mention the pioneers like Lilienthal and Gustav Whitehead, five years after the very first motor flight, in their front page report about the Wright apparatus 1906.
However, in 2024 we can celebrate the 130th anniversary of this historic event and share our #Liliental portrait with you.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. Even when Commodore won the #8bitWars in the end, the ZX Spectrum sold 5 million units until 1992 for a initial price of £175 (48KB in the UK). With a Z80A 8-bit CPU running oh 3.5 MHz it was capable to do fancy computer graphics on a regular telly, at home for everybody.
Most likely because Quantel named their first system as simple as they did, Print'n'Plotter sold their graphic software under the same product name "Paintbox", but for the ZX Home Computers. In a resolution of 256×192 pixels and limited to 15 colours #IT was great for the budget. Demo graphics been fancy, even if not as WOOOW as the real Paintbox. https://gfkdsgn.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/quantel-paintbox/
Quantel wasn't in the Home computer business so not even MTV could afford more than a few. Real Paintbox systems are rare today, while the ZX Spectrum isn't so much.
The series of our 2023 tech anniversaries comes to a natural end and content plans for the next year have to be talked about internally. AFK
Even when development started in summer '79 it took twice as long as Apple expected, not only because they had to get rid of Jobs first. So LISA wasn't launched earlier than 1983 with 1Mb RAM for almost U$D 10K. The project was a $50 million investment for Apple Inc., and kept losses low since it sold almost 5K units annually. After 27 months it was in-house competition that buried the Lisa computers, litterally. In the end it was a zero sum game for Apple, but a huge step for modern graphic user-interfaces and more personal computers.
The Indy was SGI's entry-level 3D workstation for CAD and 3D animations in 1993. This beautiful computer was actually the first shipped with a webcam and had video I/O ports built-in.
Since 2023 isn't over yet, there are a few days left to celebrate IT's 30th Anniversary and to realize that @Blender was developed on one of them.
I drew another album cover, this time Joni Mitchell's "Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm" from 1988. One of quite few using an actual photo of her, and not a painted self portrait.
#Affinity#Designer is currently available for 45 instead of 75 bucks and version 2.3 now comes with a spiral tool. Congratulations!
Somehow I can't remember when that function was added to Inkscape, can you?
Maybe that's because V0.45 already got it built in? However, congrats Serif for catching up.
#Affinity#Designer is currently available for 45 instead of 75 bucks and version 2.3 now comes with a spiral tool. Congratulations!
Somehow I can't remember when that function was added to Inkscape, can you?
Maybe that's because V0.45 already got it built in? However, congrats Serif for catching up.
Affinity: "Hey, would you like to install this update that does things? They may or may not be important to what you're about to do. Here's a link to go hunt down what it does. I don't feel like bothering to tell you."
I've been a fan of Patrick Nagel's work for a very long time. So intriuging to see that wonderful line, looking so effortlessly minimal and simple, yet surprisingly precise.
I set out to re-trace one of his works using #AffinityDesigner, the "Palm Springs Life". Simple, yes - easy, not so much. There is s lot going on here that isn't apparent at first glance.
I'm still in awe of how he created these images back in the mid 1970s to his untimely death at 38 yo in 1984.