On Thursday 21 July 2011 Jul, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Chadwick > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm twiddling away on an unofficial branch of MyPaint which splits the > > view of the single working document into multiple viewports, in a > > split-screen manner: > > > > - > > http://gitorious.org/~achadwick/mypaint/achadwick-mypaint/commits/split-view > > - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_screen_%28computer_graphics%29 > > > > Each split has its own translation, zoom, rotation and mirroring. This > > can be used to provide something of a poor man's overview widget, or a > > usable mixer palette in a corner of the painting which can be picked > > from when working in the opposite corner, or just a pair of zoomed in > > and zoomed out views. > > There is an ancient feature request for the ability to rotate the canvas > in GIMP - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55367 - > I always thought ofit as interesting, and I expect that a pure GEGL rendering > stack and reworking of the UI will enable GIMP to implement something like > this.
Canvas rotation is so useful for artists that people like Animtim and Deevad rig up game controllers to easily rotate while painting :-) > Splitting a window, AFAIK, had not been thought of - there is support > for multiple views of an image, with different zoom levels, thrught he use of > multiple windows to the same image. Krita has split views, but in a limited way -- only horizontal _or_ vertical splits, and only one document per window. It's also buggy enough that I'm considering removing it. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
