Comments on: Project 2 : PixWeaver http://golancourses.net/2010spring/02/15/project-2-pixweaver/ Carnegie Mellon University / Spring 2010 Mon, 10 May 2010 03:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 By: golan http://golancourses.net/2010spring/02/15/project-2-pixweaver/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:28:43 +0000 http://golancourses.net/2010spring/?p=2637#comment-88 Hi Ray, here are comments from the class crit.
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A photoshop simulator, is this really necessary?

This project makes wonderful sense on an iPhone, but is useless at the Desktop. It would be great to load, combine and mail(message) such images using my phone. But on my desktop, this app does not seem to provide any value. Photoshop has been around 20 years now, everyone knows how to use it. The value here is not as an alternative to photoshop, but your discovery of a new context and purpose for imagemaking.

I love how this tool seems custom-designed to make cliched Photoshop romantic movie poster effects. (Nothing wrong with that, they’re cliched because they work. 🙂 ) As Golan just got finished saying, it’s a strength, not a weakness.
And yes, I agree, I would have done this in jQuery, with a python script on the server side doing the image morphing. Then again, tools that are quick for me are slow for others, and vice versa. -SB (You could do this easily with Javascript/Canvas. Try it out!) (Agreed, the morphing can totally be done with javascript/canvas instead of server-side code. Just keep an eye out for browser compatability when relying on Canvas.)

This is a utilitarian project. Nice interface.

Is there any way to control the direction of the blending? That seems like a necessary user input.

Wow, this is in Processing? This would be a whole lot easier to make in a more traditional user interface framework like Swing or something.

It might be interesting to explore doing something like this in a touch screen interface. Put it on an iPad.

Picasa will love it.

iPhone apps to look at as a starting point: http://blog.artandmobile.com/category/photography/
You can also do processing on iPhone now too!
http://luckybite.com/iprocessing/

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