Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 11:16AM I didn’t realize holographic printing had come this far – it’s shocking. This is from a company called Zebra Imaging.
Check some of the other YouTube videos that demonstrate this technology:
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 11:37AM Back to visual basics … this beautiful video by The Printing Ink Company shows a lot of passion in the pursuit of making expressive marks
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:35AM I remember getting my first Wacom tablet in 1995 and with it, the only application that truly exploited that input device – Fractal Design Painter 3. Through a twisted path and many years it’s become the recently announced Corel Painter 12
A YouTube video illustrates some of the improved features.
What's new in Corel® Painter™ 12
I like what I see but the app is getting huge – Kaleidoscope painting really? But I am looking forward to the new watercolor and oil brushes.
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:13PM In a post over a year ago I compared browser support for inline SVG (by embedding SVG in XHTML) and now that Internet Explorer 9 has arrived, I thought it a good opportunity to revisit how these browsers handle some simple SVG cases.
Here is a link to the file I used: Download XHTML file
Here are the screen captures of how the three browsers rendered them. Click on the thumbnails to get to the original version.
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Overall, most of the content seemed identical – at least I could not see any difference – but in some cases there are discrepancies that are worth highlighting
You can see some slight differences in the smoothness of the edges. Chrome looks the most rough, Firefox, somewhat smoother, and IE the smoothest.
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Note the capital S. At 8x magnification you can see how strongly the edges have been anti-aliased. In Chrome also notice how strongly saturated the colors are at the edges. Firefox and IE are using much less saturated values.
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All the browsers seem very consistent. The only notable exception is the underline style is not rendered in Firefox.
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Chrome “does the right thing”. It is surprising to see that Firefox and and IE don’t render this correct.
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Everyone seems to be doing their own thing with this kind of line style. None of them look particularly good.
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