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Jot Test

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Everybody is very impressed with the Non Photorealistic Renderer Jot. JamScoBal presents a short example that illustrates its quality.

JamScoBal writes:

Here is a test I did to try out the features of Jot NPR. I wanted everyone to get excited about this because this is a big thing and maybe have some of you developers out there to start sprucing things up for this fantastic thing. I know I sound like a fan boy, but we really ought to get going on this make it more accessible for Linux and available for Mac OS X users out there.

21 Comments

  1. The smoothness of the lines, the way they've considered lighting and different levels of detail, the way it can render unseen edges differently to seen ones... Jot looks awesome. It would make a very welcome addition for Freestyle. I second the motion for a GSoC project.

  2. A stable Blender release with Freestyle featuring Jot would be outstanding. The more good rendering capabilities and options, the better, I say. In any case, I'm glad we're seeing a greater focus on non-photorealistic rendering lately.

  3. I'd be pretty happy just seeing stable OS X build, linux build and exporter. I suspect it's a different enough approach that it might be better separate from Freestyle, ultimately maybe as a separate render engine, composite node, ... [making stuff up as I know next to nothing about programming].

    But a solid exporter and standalone workflow would be a great start. Gonna have to crank up my ancient windows box to try it out in the meantime. ;)

  4. Really impressive. Jot is a powerful tool. I'm making some experiences with it. It's different from FreeStyle, because the purpose of Jot is to get artistic and stylized images. FreeStyle, in the other hand, is very useful to make cartoons and technical presentations.

    Would be amazing if we have Jot integrated with Blender.

    • I still can't install it. I did everything like in this tutorial, but I can only open it using cmd and only with text interface. Anyone know any videotutorial? I don't know if I do something wrong or just Windows 7 can't run application.

      • Hi, Nicolas!

        Could you send me an email with a PrintScreen to locatelli-at-planetaignis.com?

        I own a netbook with Windows 7 and this weekend I'll try to install Jot in it. Let's see what happens...

        Would be nice to exchange experiences on this useful software.

        Greetings!

  5. From what I can tell jot seems to be a dead project with no updates for quite some time. I hope Im wrong. Please tell me that I am.

  6. Just wondering if anyone has tried Jot in Parallels or VM Fusion on a mac... any reason this wouldn't work? I'd buy one of them if I could be sure it would.

  7. In answer to my own question, I've had a quick go with Jot after installing VM fusion demo. Works fine on my mbp.

    Still hoping this technology can get looked at for further development.

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