I like the animation style, but animation seems to be a bit strong of a word. The technique, developed by a guy from MIT, strikes me as a cross between rotoscoping and key-frame animation. The actors are filmed and then painted over. So they have a complete reference for the shadows, etc. It's tracing, not true animation.
I always pictured A Scanner Darkly the movie as looking very much like Cheech and Chong with bits of neat sci-fi tech. The book oozes its 70s setting with the cars and the guy's house and stuff. Also, the book starts off very funny, like C&C, and starts to tumble down from there. If I was filming it (thank god I'm not), Up in Smoke would have been my main visual inspiration!
I agree completely with the lyx philosophy, focus on your words.
In fact, I would not be surprised at all if Apple went a similar route and had LaTeX lurking in the shadows. On the other hand, wouldn't that limit real-time changes, since it must be compiled/rendered?
I assume, being OS X, that this suite will export -> pdf no problem. I use TexShop for a lot of my writing and it would be great if Apple could replace some of that functionality. Maybe a LaTeX export feature at least?
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I like the animation style, but animation seems to be a bit strong of a word. The technique, developed by a guy from MIT, strikes me as a cross between rotoscoping and key-frame animation. The actors are filmed and then painted over. So they have a complete reference for the shadows, etc. It's tracing, not true animation. I always pictured A Scanner Darkly the movie as looking very much like Cheech and Chong with bits of neat sci-fi tech. The book oozes its 70s setting with the cars and the guy's house and stuff. Also, the book starts off very funny, like C&C, and starts to tumble down from there. If I was filming it (thank god I'm not), Up in Smoke would have been my main visual inspiration!
I agree completely with the lyx philosophy, focus on your words. In fact, I would not be surprised at all if Apple went a similar route and had LaTeX lurking in the shadows. On the other hand, wouldn't that limit real-time changes, since it must be compiled/rendered? I assume, being OS X, that this suite will export -> pdf no problem. I use TexShop for a lot of my writing and it would be great if Apple could replace some of that functionality. Maybe a LaTeX export feature at least?
Any sentence where you need to break out Order of Operations, right? God, the Internet has destroyed our communication skills. Kinda ironical....