Poiesis cameo

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Published January 19, 2011
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[font="arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif"][size="2"]Here I'll give a brief description of the project I've been working on most recently. It's called Poiesis. Since its very infant release ca 2 weeks ago (Windows: http://www.mediafire...rpqwzkedlbp3elx), it is a utility for allowing a user to create various specialized fonts very easily and then to type a few lines in them. As it develops, it will be able to do other handy things to allow users to develop their own creative content and to link it together. Poiesis is all 32-bit fixed-point (except that it makes use glut and fmod, but I've rewritten the base class so many times to make use of different libraries, I'm not doing that again until it makes sense).

Within a few more releases, I wish to support very flexible text styles, including combined characters, variable character widths and kernings, text that can run along any defined path and various orientations (like upside-down and inverted) and various looks (eg "carved wood", "painted stencil", "quill pen", "crumpled paper"). Also, I'd like users to be able to chat in their various invented scripts.

There are many other things I hope Poiesis will do, and some of these features may call for implementation first, depending on the development path chosen. For instance, once the basic graphic script features are implemented, it might be nice to do something similar for all the basic audio-related features, or perhaps it would be better to polish one system piece first. Chances are, due to time constraints, I'll often wind up dealing with the system component that seems most doable at the time.
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