First some history.

I originally developed this painting technique in 1988 on a Silicon Graphics IRIS workstation. Then in 1989 Adobe included a very limited implementation of this idea in the first version of PhotoShop.

We applied for a patent on this method and a paper describing my paint system appeared in the proceedings of SIGGRAPH in 1990. In 1993 a patent was issued. The U.S. patent number is 5,182,548.

Recently, I got interested in JAVA, and thought this might be a nice thing to try. I hope you like it; it's my first JAVA program.

Here's the JAVA source code for this application if you want to see how it works.

That's about all I have to say. If you have questions or comments, send me a note, and remember to visit GRAFICA Obscura for computer graphics distraction!

Paul Haeberli

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