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    Comment #28715814

    Very interesting read, thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #28475393

    Wow, your library actually looks impressive! Yeah, I'm pretty much implementing all the same things.

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    Comment #28475316

    Thanks a lot Const-me for all your very accurate responses! I basically have nothing more to add. Oh, and indeed, SDF is just completely irrelevant to the problem at hand here. I w…

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    Comment #28474850

    I will also target iPads and Android tablets as native apps, yes. But most professional users use a powerful desktop computer with a Wacom Intuos or Cintiq. Some professional work …

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    Comment #28474690

    Playing devil's advocate, I'd argue that it does make development much faster, and portability much easier. This is important. But otherwise I clearly agree with you. There's no re…

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    Comment #28474622

    Thanks a lot! Getting the code for Expression could be interesting, although the code is so old, I wonder how useful it would be. Especially modern C++ has changed a lot, sometimes…

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    Comment #28474592

    I'm using 3D graphics APIs, OpenGL on Linux currently, but Vulkan will be an option later. I'm converting everything to triangles on the CPU and send to OpenGL. Note that the anima…

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    Comment #28474530

    Thanks for all the advice, I know it is well-intended, but unfortunately this late in the project there is nothing that could change my mind anyway. It's too late. But even if I ha…

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    Comment #28473178

    It is indeed strange, the technology hasn't progressed much, especially compared to 3D modeling/animation! I hypothesize that the stagnation is because researchers in computer scie…

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    Comment #28473099

    Wow, this is cool, I had heard of Expression but didn't the whole backstory. I will definitely have to check it out. And indeed I have a lot of catching up to do feature-wise :) VG…

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    Comment #28473056

    Thanks for the comment, I'm the developer of the app! Having it run in a browser would clearly be convenient, but unfortunately Javascript is really too slow. I even wish C++ was f…