Tom Rathborne wrote: > 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 I'm pretty sure that what you saw was probably Corel Painter, not Corel PhotoPaint. Corel Painter was bought from MetaCreations and was better-known as Fractal Painter in the 'old days'. It has also supported network-painting for a long time. I don't know if they intend it to supercede PhotoPaint (that would be fine if it means a better chance of seeing a Linux version). > 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: I agree, although usefulness is a secondary consideration to me. I'll take fun over usefulness most days. Having both is just a bonus. =) > If UI stuff was also transmitted then it would be a _great_ remote > teaching tool. I don't know what the actual mechanism for Painter's network- painting is, but I understand that it works perfectly nicely over modem. Hence I assume that they try to avoid sending actual pixmap data as much as possible! --Adam -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ adam@xxxxxxxx http://www.foxbox.org/ Have a better one.
