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Animation app euphoria

Published Thursday 28th February 2008 11:32 GMT

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No apps for Tablet??? 

By Stu
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 13:27 GMT
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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/tabletpc.mspx

My HP TC4400 has had these installed for a long while, you get bored of them after a while. Suffice to say theres a drawing and animating package in there.

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After skimming thru the manual for K-Sketch it seems there are no physics in-built for autonomous gravitational and kinetics animation - you draw the paths yourself. A real shame as I thought it would have been natural to build physics into such a thing.

Theres a physics sim in the MS tablet powertools. Works pretty good but is simplistic.

Tablet PCs 

By Wyrmhole
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 22:57 GMT

I like to think tablet PCs will really shine in the so-called creative industries (not just visual arts) once PC makers stop putting 5 year-old CPUs in them. Beyond office use the keyboard+mouse method can be really limiting. I recommended to one of my friends who works in audio production to buy a cheap graphics tablet and he can't stop talking about how much more efficiently he can get stuff done now. I personally can't wait till we have OS's that support multitouch tablet PCs.

Good enough for Stargate Atlantis 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 6th March 2008 15:49 GMT

They seem to be the main type of computer in use in the Pegasus Galaxy. Perhaps the hefty price tag is holding things back here in the Milky Way

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