Astropad: Turn your iPad into a professional graphics tablet

Post by geoelectric » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 8:13 PM UTC

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This sounds awesome. It's a little unfortunate that the iPad Air (at least the first one) is really inexact for pressure-sensitive drawing, though. It tends to reject or miss the very first part of fast, light strokes. It only recognizes them properly when you start out rather deliberately, counter to how you might sketch or crosshatch. While nobody has officially confirmed last I looked, best guess seems to have bee…

Of all the styli for the iPad, the Jot Touch 4 seems to be the best as far as accuracy. It is the only one I'd put in the "usable" category." Surprisingly the newer Jot Touch Pixelpoint is horrible compared to this (missing strokes, not keeping straight lines, not being able to detect near the edges of the screen) and I wish I could return mine. The Cintiq is a nearly natural pen and paper experience, but if I'm on t…

Post by mronge » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 8:21 PM UTC

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Thanks, that's great to hear :) We've been working on this for 1.5 years and we had to write completely custom tech to make it happen. We're happy to answer any questions about our tech

What's the unique sauce that makes this work? How do you keep arbitrary Mac apps in sync with the iPad display?

Post by tumultco » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 10:16 PM UTC

geoelectric wrote: post #11

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Of all the styli for the iPad, the Jot Touch 4 seems to be the best as far as accuracy. It is the only one I'd put in the "usable" category." Surprisingly the newer Jot Touch Pixelpoint is horrible compared to this (missing strokes, not keeping straight lines, not being able to detect near the edges of the screen) and I wish I could return mine. The Cintiq is a nearly natural pen and paper experience, but if I'm on t…

Which iPad are you on? My stylus worked great with the iPad 3, but is reportedly bad on the Mini and definitely bad on my Air.

Post by mronge » Thu, Feb 19, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

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That's the tech we built we call LIQUID: http://astropad.com/#tech

Sure, but that doesn't really tell us anything.

Post by vim-guru » Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 6:54 AM UTC