Pressure-Sensitive Drawing Heading to iPad

 

Illustrators, rejoice; Ten One Design is planning to roll out a pressure-sensitive drawing app for the Apple iPad. While not exactly Wacom material, the app will make sketching on the iPad a more exact experience.

By using a ‘Pogo’ stylus, which responds to pressure impacted by the user, the app will respond correspondingly: a harder physical stroke will result in a bolder line, while thinner marks can be made by applying less pressure.

Another feature of the app that might prove useful for illustrators is its ‘palm rejection’ capability. This forces the iPad to recognise input from the stylus alone and not users’ palms as they rest on the screen.

Ten One Design plans to release this capability as a free software library that “any developer can easily integrate into their app”. The company also hopes this can be part of the Apple iOS4 UIKit framework.
[TAXI Design Network]