borisdalstein

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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   Very interesting read, thanks for sharing!
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   Wow, your library actually looks impressive! Yeah, I'm pretty much implementing all the same things.
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   Thanks a lot Const-me for all your very accurate responses! I basically have nothing more to add. Oh, and indeed, SDF is just completely irrelevant to the problem at hand here. I would kindly suggest ninetenfour to avoid making bold stateme
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   I will also target iPads and Android tablets as native apps, yes. But most professional users use a powerful desktop computer with a Wacom Intuos or Cintiq. Some professional work requires hundreds of layers, and in the context of animation
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   Playing devil's advocate, I'd argue that it does make development much faster, and portability much easier. This is important. But otherwise I clearly agree with you. There's no reason why I would make it web-based in the fir
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   Thanks a lot! Getting the code for Expression could be interesting, although the code is so old, I wonder how useful it would be. Especially modern C++ has changed a lot, sometimes it's nice to start with a clean slate.
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   I'm using 3D graphics APIs, OpenGL on Linux currently, but Vulkan will be an option later. I'm converting everything to triangles on the CPU and send to OpenGL. Note that the animation app actually needs to show 3D graphics for a
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   Thanks for all the advice, I know it is well-intended, but unfortunately this late in the project there is nothing that could change my mind anyway. It's too late. But even if I had to start from scratch, I would still use C++. It is t
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   by borisdalstein 5y ago

   It is indeed strange, the technology hasn't progressed much, especially compared to 3D modeling/animation! I hypothesize that the stagnation is because researchers in computer science are more naturally drawn to 3D since the probl
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    by borisdalstein 5y ago

    Wow, this is cool, I had heard of Expression but didn't the whole backstory. I will definitely have to check it out. And indeed I have a lot of catching up to do feature-wise :) VGC Illustration won't be able to be as feature-comp
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    by borisdalstein 5y ago

    Thanks for the comment, I'm the developer of the app! Having it run in a browser would clearly be convenient, but unfortunately Javascript is really too slow. I even wish C++ was faster. Rendering the vector paths requires the same typ