Dyna brush as tool?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 01 February 2009, LukasT.dev at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have implemented Dyna brush as paintop lately and I added support
> for drawing various "primitives" to it like circles, polygons, line strips
> and line wire.
>
> I feel that dynabrush is much more tool than brush engine. It can nicely
> simulate "mouse pressure" which can be mapped to acceleration (I do
> this with line strips...try it to see it :) ), or maybe velocity. And I
> think other paintops mapped to dyna would give nice results.
>
> Sumi-e has mouse pressure, but it gives not very useful results.
>
> E.g. inkscape uses dynabrush for it's calligraphy tool.
>
> What do you think about it?
>
> PS: BUILD_EVERYTHING is needed when compiling Krita, dyna is in trunk,
> but not compiled by default.

As discussed before on irc, yes, I think it needs to be a tool, yes -- but 
then the next question would be: can it work with existing paintops? Like, 
doing dynabrush with the sumi-e paintop?

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