Fractal Design Painter


PainterPainter is a revolutionary 'natural media' paint package which attempts to imitate chalk, charcoal, watercolour, oilpaint and many other traditional mediums. In fact many of the SIGGRAPH papers on painterly rendering refer to this software and the algorithms developed for it.

   The screenshot shows one of the brush stroke layers for my shader, created with the 'loaded oils' paint tool. The greyscale brush strokes clearly show the characteristic bristle marks and lowered and raised areas created by oil paint.

   One of Painter's best features is it's ability to define images as patterns. When in 'define pattern' mode Painter allows paint strokes to wrap from one side of the digital canvas to the other, enabling seamless patterns to be developed very easily. The image above is a pattern - notice when one stroke leaves the canvas it appears on the opposite side.