Digital fingerpainting art on iPad
Portrait artist David Kassan has joined an emerging community of iPad artists, showing the world that the iPad can essentially replace the artist’s sketchbook, using the Brushes app to create a painting of a live model of a man. Kassan’s use of the iPad as a canvas was brought to mainstream attention by Stephen Fry on Twitter, and we’re so happy he did.
As you’ll see in the video, he starts out quite roughly but very quickly starts looking like an actual oil painting. Continue Reading....
BIM on iPad shown off by Bentley systems
A great find for today, Laura Handler of bimX has had an interesting encounter at the annual Bentley conference - BE Community Live - with some tablet technology + a bit of augmented reality in the mix.
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Photoshop 1.0 on iPhone
Yesterday’s post reminded me of something I had seen a couple of months ago. Although Adobe has had their Photoshop for iPhone app out for a while - which is truly awesome - many may have missed back in February when a limited-edition Adobe Photoshop 20th anniversary commemorative iPhone app was released to 50 select attendees of the anniversary event.
The app itself was a replica of Photoshop 1.0, which Adobe debuted in 1990 exclusively on the Macintosh.
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SitePAD™ : the first true CAD app for iPhone + iPad
In a couple of past articles I’ve talked about the different options offered for CAD on iPhone and iPad, and how nothing has really impressed anyone yet - bringing great frustration to many design professionals. We’ve transitioned from desktop to laptop quite quickly in the past few years, and now we’ve been aching for someone to create a useful app on the go. The existing apps are either too simplistic or just vector-based drawing systems - which give the impression of an architectural drawing - without any practical use other than creating an image of say a floorplan, which later must be traced over - most times inaccurately - in a proper CAD application to become useful.
Enter SitePAD : Pocket Aided Design for iPhone and iPad!
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goBIM™ : the first BIM iPhone app
Hold the presses, the day has arrived! It seems
just in time for the release of the iPad - due
this Saturday - a cunning developer has created
what looks like the first BIM app for the iPhone
+ of course the iPad. (and no I promise...this is
not an April fools gag)
A few weeks ago I had talked about the
possibility of
Graphisoft bringing out an iPad / iPhone
app for viewing 3D BIM
models - similar to their Archicad project viewer
‘Virtual Building
Explorer’ - but it seems
this guy has beat everyone to the punch.
It's called goBIM™
- write
that down! ...or you know, just click the iTunes
link at the end.
App : archiCADmonkey on Android
I’ve been looking into how to create an archiCADmonkey app for the iPhone - though I’m not really comfortable with the code yet. So, I’ve taken the easier route with the help of the GenWi team at iSites. They’ve created a great online system to automatically create iPhone + Android versions, distribute them and analyse the download stats. The process is simple, as I finished it in under an hour!
So, the archiCADmonkey app features a direct stream of the blog, the @acmonkey twitter feed, the Vimeo videos, and the Flickr pictures feed. The iPhone version is going to take a couple of weeks to get through the App store process, but the Android version is up + running! As I understand you can search for Android apps online, but you have to download it directly from an Android phone, as there isn’t an online Android app store.
So go check it out if you like and tell me if it’s any good, one good point I guess already - it’s free!
The archiCADmonkey app on Android