[instaviz-users] Any possibility of a more general sketching app?

[Glen Low]

Ben

On 23/01/2010, at 6:10 PM, Ben Galanti wrote:

> I have seen the videos of Instaviz and am very impressed by its shape
> recognition. However, the kind of graphing that Instaviz does is not
> something I have great need for. So, I was wondering if there is any
> possibility of a more general sketching type app with Instaviz's shape
> recognition? I often make 'back of the napkin' concept sketches of new
> ideas and would love to have them cleaned up by shape recognition. I
> haven't seen anything like that for the iPhone currently, though I did
> have a vector sketching program for my old Palm back in the day...

I don't have any concrete plans (yet) for a general sketching app.

One of the benefits of focussing on a diagramming app is that the user  
interface can be much simpler, since you are then constrained in what  
you can do e.g. if the app handles layout for you, you don't have to  
cater an interface for moving objects around on the canvas -- so the  
interface for sketching new shapes and links, scrolling etc. is more  
straightforward for the user.

If you do concept sketches and can live with some simple re- 
arrangement by the system, you could try out the mindmap-like layout  
function in Instaviz.




Cheers, Glen Low


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