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....
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.
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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Will Apple's fabled Tablet have 3D technology?
For those of you who have missed a few steps - or have been living in a cave with no WiFi for the past year - check out the definitive rumour roundup (via TechRadar) + the awesome concept 3D renderings (via DVice)
This type of multi-touch device can obviously be beneficial in many fields but especially CAD; from sketching + annotating drawings, or by providing a more interactive user interface for viewing / editing 3D models + navigating through CGI environments. Imagine having a supersize iPhone while “pinching” + “flicking” through a Sketchup file, or even just tilting it 360° to view a 3D rendered environment - creating a more “natural” experience. The possibilities are mind-blowing if you could integrate this with 360cities or even better - 3D video panoramas!
Another potential revolution could be on the way from Apple, as a recent patent surfaced not long ago about 3D head-tracking technology. The logic is that an embedded camera with face-detection would track the user’s movement and adapt accordingly, creating even more realism to 3D objects and spaces:
“Using the detected position of the user, the electronic device may use any suitable approach to transform the perspective of three-dimensional objects displayed on the display.”
“It’s
a new level of virtual reality, meshing the real
world with a nonexistent one, but giving the
visual perception that an object is
real.” (via
AppleInsider)
If the Tablet also has a camera on the back as
well (doubtful as the iPhone only has one), this
concept could pair well with some form of
augmented reality
apps
that have surfaced on the iPhone in the past
year, blurring the boundaries between virtual +
reality even further.
The rumours keep multiplying every day and will
undeniably increase until Apple’s special event.
Then, we will be at peace knowing that most of
the rumours were actually true ...of course the
peace will not last long, the second it’s over
we’ll be scouring the net to find any way to
guarantee we get our hands on...whatever it is.
As fun as it is speculating - don’t get me wrong,
as any tech geek may admit I could do it for
hours - it seems 2010 is going to be a great year
full of more gadget goodies, a year full of
possibilities.