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Making Mischief - The Magical App Unlike Anything You've Seen Before (venturefizz.com)
5 points by dbkeohane on Oct 9, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Can someone explain the underlying technology:

What makes Mischief tick? Mischief uses Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields (ADFs), originally invented and developed by Ron and Sarah at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and further enhanced by 61 Solutions. ADFs are a new digital representation of shape which provide numerous advantages including high quality anti-aliasing, very fast rendering, support for massive parallelism, very small file sizes, and the ability to succinctly represent variable-width, scalable, textured strokes. This technology is protected by over 50 patents.


This is one of the most amazing applications for illustration that I've ever seen. I can only imagine what the complexity under the hood must be like.




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