![]() ![]() ADFs have several advantages for creative applications: they provide high-quality stroke rendering they are amenable to hardware-based rendering so drawing is extremely responsive they are very compact, resulting in small file sizes they can be scaled without introducing pixelation artifacts and they can accurately represent much richer and more complex shapes than traditional vector-based stroke representations. The Foundry's blog announcement went into further detail on the technology powering Mischief's zooming capability: Mischief is powered by a revolutionary patented shape representation, known as Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields (ADFs), co-invented by (company founder Sarah) Frisken. "Our infinite zoom is 50 trillion:1!" crowed the Twitter feed."It's like sitting on the moon and zooming down to the wing of a bug (on Earth)!" There is a sample file available for separate download called Sleepy Story that is absolutely breathtaking.Īlthough Mischief has a very limited core feature set at the moment, it features a revolutionary technology that enables an almost infinite canvas. I can't wait until the developers introduce flipbook capability so that you can animate the pans, tilts and zooms. If this happens to you, select Edit/View All Strokes to frame up your work.īesides these early performance issues, Mischief 2.0 is simply a lot of fun to use. ![]() It's also easy to lose sight of your work if you zoom in or out too far. Multitouch gestures sometimes stop working or are difficult to trigger. Performance is also somewhat erratic on the SP3. Made with Mischief is looking into the problem. It could of course be a conflict with other software or one of the many utilities I have installed to test over time. Several Twitter followers have corroborated the issue, while others have claimed they're not seeing the problem. ![]() I haven't tried removing the Wacom pen driver because it's more critical to the calibration and pen settings on the SP2. I'd ordinarily chalk the problem up to N-Trig, but my Surface Pro 2 has the same issue (see above). Uninstalling the driver took care of the issue. With the driver installed, many of my pen strokes exhibited an odd glitch: a small spike that would appear randomly, usually at the beginning of a stroke. But on the SP3, I actually had to remove the N-Trig Wintab driver in order for the paid software to work properly. In previous incarnations, Mischief required a Wintab driver for pen pressure. I tested the paid version on the Surface Pro 2 and 3. The software runs on Windows and OS X and is also available through the Mac App Store. The retail price of Mischief 2.0 was also cut dramatically to $25 and a free feature-limited version is available to download. The latter's Mischief paint and sketch software was introduced last year.Īlong with the acquisition, the companies announced the immediate release of Version 2.0 of the software with new UI, additional brushes and -most significantly for Surface Pro and Windows tablet users- multitouch gesture support with palm rejection. High-end graphics software developer The Foundry yesterday surprised industry observers with the announcement of the acquisition of the tiny hobbyist software startup Made With Mischief. ![]()
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