{"id":11265,"date":"2006-11-07T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/11\/drawing-tools-rat-brains-willows-and-director.html"},"modified":"2006-11-07T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T11:17:21","slug":"drawing_tools_rat_brains_willows_and_direc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/drawing_tools_rat_brains_willows_and_direc\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing tools: Rat brains, willows, and Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikons.com\/\">Mikons<\/a> is &quot;a new form of self-expression that connects people through visual symbols (personal tags),&quot; and the site creators call their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikons.com\/create\/machine\/\">Mikon Machine<\/a> (created using Director) &quot;the most advanced drawing tool of its kind available on the Internet.&quot;<br \/>\nThey plan to add color, text input, a  product builder, and a store to enable artists to sell their designs. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumulatelabs.com\/draw\/draw.html\">Cumulate Draw<\/a> offers a some similar capabilities but is done by leveraging the scripting engines built into modern Web browsers [<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/archives\/2006\/11\/cumulate_draw.cfm\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>If having humans in the loop gets you down, why not try a little <a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2006\/10\/24\/tree-art\/\">tree art<\/a>? British artist Tim Knowles attaches pens to the branches of various trees, letting them draw whatever the wind dictates.&#160; I&#8217;m having trouble getting the photos to appear in my browser, but here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rokebygallery.com\/matrix_engine\/content.php?page_id=944&amp;image=1094\">a link<\/a> in case you have more luck. <\/li>\n<li>Not out there enough for you?&#160; Okay, how about 50,000 rat neurons in a petri dish driving a robot arm in Australia, translating neural activity into drawings?&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/3096973.stm\">Read all about it.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikons is &quot;a new form of self-expression that connects people through visual symbols (personal tags),&quot; and the site creators call their Mikon Machine (created using Director) &quot;the most advanced drawing tool of its kind available on the Internet.&quot; They plan to add color, text input, a product builder, and a store to enable artists to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}