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This release of VisioAutomation.VDX simplifies the process of initially creating the VDX Drawing object and the process of saving it to VDX format.

To create a new Drawing object using the default (built-in) template

using VA = VisioAutomation;

var template = new VA.VDX.Template();
var doc = new VA.VDX.Elements.Drawing(template);

To create a new Drawing object using your own template:

string xml = System.IO.File.ReadAllText( “somefile.vdx” );
var template = new VA.VDX.Template( xml );
var doc = new VA.VDX.Elements.Drawing(template);

To save as a VDX file

doc.Save( “output.vdx” );

Via this post on Behance you can explore the process Frank Grießhammer used in designing FF Quixo. It was very enlightening to see how a typeface goes from this:

To this:

Hard to explain in words, just watch the video :-)

My favorite line from the video “Sometimes the video loop is visually plausible but semantically incorrect”.

And then try it yourself: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/videoloops/README.html

And if you are more curious you can read the paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/videoloops/

My favorite line from the video “Sometimes the video loop is visually plausible but semantically incorrect”.

And then try it yourself: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/videoloops/README.html

And if you are more curious you can read the paper: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/hoppe/proj/videoloops/

Sometimes covers are far, far, better

Sparked by an interesting Hacker News thread recently –  if you need to implement blend modes or understand technically what is going on then you'll find these useful.

Photshop Blend Modes Explained
http://photoblogstop.com/photoshop/photoshop-blend-modes-explained

Insight into Photoshop 7.0 Blending Modes
http://dunnbypaul.net/blends/

Let’s Learn Math: Photoshop Blend Modes
http://www.venture-ware.com/kevin/coding/lets-learn-math-photoshop-blend-modes/

Photoshop Blend Mode Math
http://inlandstudios.com/en/?p=851

Implementations

• https://github.com/shazow/colorlib/blob/master/colorlib.js#L169
• https://github.com/Phrogz/context-blender/blob/master/context_blender.js

Obligatory Wikipedia Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes