Photographic features and other non-paint features)

[Michael Thaler]

Hi,

> No, it's not just that: it's that these filters don't fit the vision of a
> high-end painting application. Emboss has useful properties, which is probably
> why Cyrille put a question mark next to them. Raindrops and oilpaint would be much 
> nicer if implemented as brushes instead of filters, probably as part of the
> deform brush. That way, the result will be dependent upon the artistic skill
> of the user and different from artist to artist instead of mostly similar.

This makes sense. Actually integrating the raindrop effect in the deform brush sounds like a fun idea. If nobody else wants to do it, I will have a look at it.

> That's the case for most of these academics. There are also interesting papers
> on www.billbaxter.com, and there's Tom van Laerhoven's work. But nobody
> publishes source code!

Well, thanks for the links.

Greetings,
Michael