I’ve been tinkering around with Avalon CTP lately (without actually making anything useful) and I’ve run into a few things that may be bugs. Also, coming from a web development background I’ve got a question that may be naive. First the bugs…
Here’s the short list of what I’ve found so far.
1) I […]
Halflife 2 actually runs fairly well on my Toshiba Portege M200 (1.7GHz Pentium-M). The graphics settings certainly aren’t maxed out, but it still looks quite good. Playing a first person shooter with the stylus was…well…fun.
I think I better get one of those little laptop mice if I’m going to continue.
Currently, tablets and cleartype don’t mix. Well, not in portrait mode at least. Why is this? I’m going to tell you! Read on.
Cleartype is an extremely cool technique for making text look good on LCD monitors. As you may or may not know, LCD monitors typically have rectangular pixels that are […]
Many graphics programs are floating around out there that have paint brushes, pencils, markers, etc…but a program called ArtRage takes it to a new level. This is the first program I’ve seen that makes you really feel like you’re painting. The paint brushes on the canvas unevenly and with bump mapping. You […]
one of the tablet pc powertoys allows you to quickly (less than 5 min) make a font that looks like your own handwriting. I’ve always wanted my own font!
Download my font here.
it look like this:
I finally got my new tablet PC today and I must say I’m loving it. I got the Toshiba M200 with a 1.7 Ghz Pentium M and 512 MB of ram. (mostly due to the higher than 1024×768 resolution)
Here’s a picture of me with my new baby.
my take on it so far:
1) The handwriting recognition […]
Ian Griffith is the man. After I posted about not being able to animate the font size he went ahead and did it. He’s posted the code on his site and more importantly got the attention of Elizabeth and Matt from the Avalon Animation team (via Chris Sells).
While Ian’s solution is really cool because […]