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....
Viewing PSD files on iPad? Adobe wants your input
Adobe + Apple may not have the greatest relationship of late - due to the neverending “no flash on the iPhone or iPad” grudge - but it seems Adobe is trying to sneak their way in again, as they first did by collaborating with Wired to create a very interactive and immersive version of the magazine for the iPad with InDesign CS5.
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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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archiCADmonkey musings on iPad
Hey everyone, just a quick update. If you’ve been following me on twitter @acmonkey you probably noticed that on Friday (which coincidently was the day of the iPad launch in the UK) I went out for a quick jog, having no intention of going by my nearest Apple store (Manchester Arndale) but somehow ended up there, and I thought I may as well try the iPad out to actually see if it’s any good.
Suffices to say, after a half hour of controlling myself my tech geek side overpowered me and I gave in. Continue Reading....
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.
3D sketching with ILOVESKETCH
ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.
A while before all the hype of tablet PCs and iPads, some great minds over at the Department of Computer Science of Toronto University developed a system giving the ability to “sketch” in 3D space while using a tablet-type device. “ILoveSketch” is a 3D curve sketching system that brings the benefits of drawing like pen on paper, while automatically creating a concept 3D curve model. It’s a really clever system integrating traditional sketching techniques and user interaction with a 3D model in novel ways.
“I Love Sketch” could become a great asset to industrial designers to rapidly draw up 3D concepts designs, though you can easily see it being used for conceptualising architectural forms and complex designs before moving onto CAD or BIM apps. As Google Sketchup revolutionised quick + easy modelling to a point where nearly anyone can draw in 3D, this kind of system could do the same with virtual sketching methods as sketching is more natural than using a mouse and requires less training to get the hang of. This isn’t just t two-dimensional sketching, but an evolution of a kind using nurb-based geometry to create freeform shapes via curves of high precision and great ease. ILoveSketch takes advantage of multi-stroke sketch techniques and gesture-based functions to create groups of these curves while drawing with a Stylus-type pen.
The video above demonstrates what ILoveSketch is all about while taking the viewer through the basic techniques used to create an airplane model in 3D without needing any kind of command or specific buttons.The environment is easy to navigate - zooming, panning, rotating, etc. are intuitive, while easily switching between the different sketching techniques.
If this sort of system could become integrated somehow into a powerful multi-touch surface like the iPad together with something like the Pogo Sketch, it could change the designers workflow dramatically and even be a major step up from the previously discussed CAD or BIM app. Hopefully in the near future we’ll see what these guys can come up with - one thing’s for sure, cadmonkeys of the world are itching to see in the next few months what’s boiling in the iPad pot.
Will Archicad be the first true CAD app on the iPad?
There are many rumours going around about which will get to be the first official CAD application on the magical iPad. I discussed in a previous article about the possibility of the tablet device having 3D technology, as many recent Apple patents are steering to such a conclusion.
Of course there are a few CAD-ish apps on the iPhone - like Mark on Call (iTunes link) or CADTouch (iTunes link) - but these are mostly vector based drawing applications similar to Adobe Illustrator , only less advanced of course.
“...maybe
VectorWorks or ArchiCAD” says Randall Newton
as
they are both established CAD + BIM
applications on the MacOS X platform. Both
programs are now under the umbrella of
Nemetschek
-
one of the leading companies for the AEC
software sector - having matured to a position
where it wouldn’t take as much work to get
onto the iPad as say the highly
anticipated Autocad for Mac
which
is still in alpha testing. Autodesk is mainly
a Windows based company, though their amazing
sketching application Autodesk SketchBook
Pro was
met with great praise on the Mac and
the iPhone|iPod Touch
(iTunes
Link). They’ve taken a good step towards
possibly edging their way in with
Project Butterfly
which
makes it easy to view + even edit Autocad
drawings via an internet browser, making it
technically cross-platform.
If Graphisoft could bring out a native iPad
application or at least an Archicad project
viewer like Virtual Building
Explorer, it
would become a great tool to show off and
describe designs anywhere with a great touch
interface easy enough for anyone to understand
the design over coffee or on the building
site.
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Apple finally unveils the iPad
The pieces of the keynote I was able to see -
before nearly every site reporting the event live
crashed from the overwhelming bandwith - were
very exciting. When
Steve Jobs was
unveiling
it and strolling on the stage, it reminded me of
something from my final year university project.
I designed a multi-sensory education environment,
where students + tutors could present their
lectures, exhibit their work, and communicate
interactively all in one massive “ambi-theatre”.
To exhibit the concept I wanted to show how a
lecturer could achieve this interactivity without
a podium to rest his laptop on. As the rumours of
the mythical tablet had started a few months
earlier, it was the obvious solution. I imagined
a LED-floodlit Steve doing what he does best.
