James; On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 01:33:20PM -0400, James Smaby wrote: > Tom wrote: > > At SIGGRAPH I saw "Corel Network Painter" or something like that > > in action. Basically there were a bunch of people all painting on > > the same image via the network. Something worth duplicating in > > the GIMP? > > This does sound like a fun thing to do, but I don't see it working > all that well with the gimp. A large part of the gimp consists of > filters and such. If many people were applying filters at the same > time, hell would break loose on the poor image. If all that is > wanted is drawing then a much simpler program would be better. Corel's PhotoPaint program is a full GIMP-like paint program and people seemed to be having a lot of fun with it. I agree that it would get messy - the stuff I saw on the screen was obviously the result of a bunch of clashing artists. I think the full power of the GIMP would be useful in many networked situations: As a collaborative work tool ... If only one person was working on each layer, there would be essentially no contention. With some workflow management it might be a good ink-paint-composite pipeline tool. If UI stuff was also transmitted then it would be a _great_ remote teaching tool. Imagine people popping into IRC with hard-to-explain problems and just granting access to their NetGIMP to someone who offers to help. Cheers, Tom -- -- Tom Rathborne tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.aceldama.com/~tomr/ -- "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." -- -- Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
