Jot Test
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.
Jot seems to have a lot going for it. Thumbs up from me!! Would it suit a GSoC project maybe?
Hell yeah, this is what line rendered animation should look like! Nice and smooth.
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.
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.
Dude, more important that Jot is realtime! So BGE will be more amazing with it!
P.S. Still didn’t got how to use it (I got an error just after executing the program, bat is set properly).
+1
for Blender Internal + Freestyle + Jot, all in one nicely integrated renderer
Yes , well said Arnaud! It would be anice solution!
This is great stuff–it works very well!
Be sure to check out the README file after opening to get eveything working correctly, you have to edit some directory paths in a couple of files.
User manual: http://jot.cs.princeton.edu/manual/html/book1.html
Here’s some fun I had with it today: http://www.youtube.com/v/aXQR0rQ2_SI
Great example of what it can do. Thanks!
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. ;)
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’ve made a page about installing Jot, since some people had difficulties.
It’s here: http://www.planetaignis.com/tutorial-1-jot/how_to_instal_jot_3d.htm
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!
http://ragnarb.com/running-jot-on-windows/
You should add to your tutorial some additional information. on Windows 7 you need another value in jot-cmd, “properties”, “location”.
What is interesting I found this tutorial during writing mail to you.
Thank you for answer!
Hi again, Nicolas.
Nice that you have found this tutorial! Yes, I will add this information to my page.
I’m very excited to use Jot, share experiences and even files.
Greetings!
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.
The original video on there website was from 2008.
If it’s open source it aint dead :P
(or at least I hope someone resurrect its code from the dead).
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.
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.