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We have been using Hermes Agent to build some skills for using Expresii. That opens a lot of doors. The skills are supposed to be compatible with other AI agents so you can try them on your favorite agents! AI Ink Painting - for real! Most existing AI-generated paintings are made with diffusion models. In contrast, here we use AI to generate strokes to be played back by Expresii to draw or paint.…
Playing the strokes twice with different brush settings .XST Stroke files Expresii has a stroke recorder but since it's not complete, I didn't make it public. The recorder saves your strokes into .XST (eXpresii STroke) files, which are plain text files. By producing your own .XST, you can actually command Expresii to paint by playing back the strokes.Ever since the MoXi prototype era, we do give…
Okay, I installed ubuntu to test Expresii on Linux. And with the help from devviktoria (and thanks also to Granham who initiated a Wintab driver implementation for use with WINE), I also fianlly got pen pressure and tilt working under WINE. I confimred that this driver works with Wacom, XP-Pen and Huion pen tablets, and also on my XP-Pen pen display. There are still minor issues like minimizing…
I first tried Winlator 6.1 on a on Snapdragon 730G Android phone in mid-2024. Expresii ran, but any operation that heavily used OpenGL stalled the app to a halt. Subsequently, I also tried later versions of Winlator as they came out but still to no avail - it just crashed at startup with those later versions of Winlator. Recently I found that Expresii stopped working under VMWare Fusion since…
Free tool VMWare Fusion lets you run Expresii on Mac Silicon machines. Another Mac user asked about using Expresii on a Mac. So, I tried the latest version of VMWare Fusion. It became free even for commercial use since last time I tested it. Expresii crashed last week. Took me a few days to figure that it's the MESA 24.1.0 OpenGL implementation of GL_POLYGON_OFFSET_LINE crashing the app. Now at…
SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 Hong KongSIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 in Hong KongThanks to CGVisual, we took part in the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 exhbition again this year. Like last year, we also invited Sensei Shuen Leung to do live painting on the spot. I'm very glad that Raman Hui visited on the first day. I had a good chat about using Expresii for animation with Raman ^_^. On the second day Richard Chuang&nbs [...]
Had a chance to tryout the new OneXPlayer X1 air's performance. Very happy to get 200+ FPS. Unfortunately, we didn't have a chance to try out their WPG pen yet. But I was told that it supports tilt sensing, in addition to pressure. Also had a chance to try out the very new (not yet available) Huion Kamvas Pro 24 (Gen 3) and the Kamvas 13 (Gen 3). The new Pen Tech 4.0 is very sensitive in pressure.…
I Tried running Expresii on a GPD Win Max 2 (2023) with AMD Ryzen 7840U, 32GB RAM. It's actually more like a small laptop than a handheld, as it is a bit heavy to hold for a period of time. It is very responsive running Expresii. Please check out the demo featuring the use of G-sensor for intuitive digital watercolor paint flow: Why gaming handheld PC? Because they have fast GPUs yet they are…
Intehill U16ZT-B 16" There are several brands of portable display with pen and touch support. Recently we tried Intehill U16ZT-B. Several years ago, I bought my first portable display and it was an Intehill too. That one's colors are too saturated. Several years later, I think their colors are much more accurate now. Their U16ZT-B is rather light for an 16" 16:10 at 890g. Their anti-glare screen…
Previously we tested EasyCanvas with an Android device. Today, we tested EasyCanvas again but with an iPad Air 4. Our host PC is an AMD 7840HS. We get around 90 FPS when the iPad is connected to the PC via an USB cable. We weren't able to get wifi connection working, unfortunately. Make sure you check the 'Winodws Ink' checkbox in Expresii so that Expresii uses the standard pen API of Windows…
We took part in the exhbition of SIGGRAPH ASIA in Tokyo 4-6 December 2024. This time, we had Sensei Shuen help demo Expresii to the audience. We had a chance to meet with artists including . famous of his work on digital Chinese ink related 3D work. 五天晴, 2nd from left, came visit. The CGVisual.com booth attraching visitors. Visitors appreciating Expresii inkwork. The following are video recording…