Eric St. Onge

Capstone

Most drawing applications available today are similar in that they all focus almost entirely on the end product of drawing without paying much attention to the process that went into that drawing. My research explores different ways of capturing a user's interaction with drawing applications and feeding it back to them in order to make it easier to understand and keep track of how drawings are made.

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Software

All the software is freely available for use. Downloadable software is for Mac OS X only. Current releases are in exhibition mode. Saving and loading of files has been disabled.

EpiSketch EpiSketch is a program that generates epitrochoids, more commonly known as spirographs. This program allows you to play with all of the parameters that create an epitrochoid, and you can also see an animation of the shape being drawn and the underlying geometry. Download (Mac OS X 10.3 only) View video.

Eurydice It was developed as the basis for a drawing tool with programmable interactive lines (it's more fun than it sounds!) Download (Mac OS X 10.3 only) View video.

Harmon Harmon is a prototype of a "harmonic drawing application." You can use Harmon to create drawings that are based on symmetry, rotation, or other transformations, including Rorschach painting, paper snowflakes, mandalas, and spirals. Download (Mac OS X 10.3 only) View video.

Thesis

The thesis document contains a research summary and the explains the design rationale for these applications.

Resources

Bibliography

A complete bibliography of all the written works I have examined for this project is available here.

Links

Additional references (such as software, people, artists, etc.) is available on the related links page.

Presentations

You can download the slides from my in-class presentations here.