We’re thrilled to announce Sketch 3.4. This free update includes performance improvements, new features, and many updates that you have been asking for.
Your Sketch designs can now be previewed real-time in a web browser. This means that you can update, share, and preview your Artboards live on Windows, Android, iOS, or any other device with a browser that is connected to the same local network.
You can now manage your favorite Plugins in Sketch. We’ve also created an extensive and searchable Plugin directory.
No more searching the Canvas for your newly-pasted layer! We’ve improved copy and paste to be more intelligent when it comes to positioning elements.
You can now disable Auto Save in the Preferences, so others don’t alter your files unknowingly and can safely open files on shared volumes without fearing conflicts. This will also clamp down on the bloated filesizes caused by Versions that many of you have reported.
If you are designing for Android, you can now find Artboard presets, and template files for icons to speed up your workflow.
We have made significant improvements to boolean operations for combining shapes, both in their accuracy as well as in their speed.
You can now create a quick mask for a selected bitmap just by clicking the Mask icon in the Toolbar. Additionally, you can right-click on any image and will now have the option “Replace Image…” to help you quickly swap images.
We have added some new shortcuts: you can hold Option to switch between Lock and Hide icons in Layer List and Option-hover layers in the Layer List to measure distances between it and the selected layer. Additionally, the scrollbar in the Layer List no longer obscures the Hide/Lock icons! You can also change a selected Artboard’s background color using Control-C.
Zooming in Sketch has undergone a number of improvements, especially for fast and consecutive zooms.
You can now drag any SVG directly from a web browser into Sketch.
You can now edit the Layout or Grid for multiple Artboards at the same time.
When pixel-fitting is off, layers no longer move by 1px increments. When it’s on, we will ensure they always snap to full pixels.
We hope you will download the free update, and check out all the improvements! You can review the entire release notes (which are quite a big read).
Computer graphics research from the University of Ohio can simulate real-world painting properties using digital interfaces - paint can be thick and textured, and strokes can be applied with 3D brushes with set of individual bristles:
We present a real-time painting system that simulates the interactions among brush, paint, and canvas at the bristle level. The key challenge is how to model and simulate sub-pixel paint details, given the limited computational resource in each time step. To achieve this goal, we propose to define paint liquid in a hybrid fashion: the liquid close to the brush is modeled by particles, and the liquid away from the brush is modeled by a density field.
Based on this representation, we develop a variety of techniques to ensure the performance and robustness of our simulator under large time steps, including brush and particle simulations in non-inertial frames, a fixed-point method for accelerating Jacobi iterations, and a new Eulerian-Lagrangian approach for simulating detailed liquid effects. The resulting system can realistically simulate not only the motions of brush bristles and paint liquid, but also the liquid transfer processes among different representations. We implement the whole system on GPU by CUDA. Our experiment shows that artists can use the system to draw realistic and vivid digital paintings, by applying the painting techniques that they are familiar with but not offered by many existing systems.
Adorable Three Piece Rings Transform Into Animals Once Worn
Created by Bangkok-based artist “m e r r y m e,”
these adorable animal rings are worn separately to create
the illusion of one full figure animal across your finger or multiple
digits. Extremely adorable and dainty, the three-piece accessories
feature a range of wildlife creatures found in a beautiful enchanted
forest. You can find these super cute rings on the Etsy shop Dainty Me.
