Krita/Inspiration

This page list links to programs, resources or articles that inspire us when programming krita.

Programs

Free Software

• The Gimp The GNU Image Manipulation Program
• GSumi Simulation of brush or pen and ink drawing
• MyPaint A drawing program with programmable brushes in Python and GTK
• Gogh A drawing program for use with wacom pads
• Seam carving: http://brain.recall.googlepages.com/cair, http://www.gabeiscodingstatic.com/contentawareimageresizing-seamcarving

Non-free Software

• Corel Painter (the descendant of Fractal Painter)
• DogWaffle
• e-Paint
• Smoothdraw
• Pixarra Sketchbook
• OpenCanvas

Academic

Brushes

• An Architecture for "natural" brush types.
• A Gimp Brush Proposal -- never implemented, I guess, but interesting nonetheless.
• dAb Interactive Haptic Painting with 3D Virtual Brushes
• Virtual chinese brush
• Brush painting algorithms
• Perlin noise is ideal for creating clouds

Color

• Applying Color Science to Computer Graphics -- dissertation by Kenneth Paul Fishkin.

GPU Programming

• GPGU : General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware
• OpenVIDIA : Parallel GPU Computer Vision]
• GPUFFTW High Performance Power-of-Two FFT Library using Graphics Processors
• The FFT on a GPU

Realistic painting

• Wet & Sticky -- dissertation by Tunde Cockshott on modelling wet paint.
• Physically based interactive painting -- dissertation by Bill Baxter.
• IMPaSTo - A realistic, Interactive Model for Paint
• Real-time Simulation of Watery Paint by Tom Van Laerhoven and Frank Van Reeth
• Introducing artistic tools in an interactive paint system by Tom Van Laerhoven, Koen Beets and Frank Van Reeth

• An Extensible Simulation Framework Supporting Physically-based Interactive Painting, Tom Van Laerhoven