With the current technological advances, we have, such things as S-pens, C-pens, Wacom iPhone styli, etc., to help more natural pen input on touch devices. With these technologies, one might expect the way we be creative should change. One might expect to see a lot of mainstream drawings being done on such devices as the Galaxy Note. I mean, we are no longer in the era where styli were used just for navigation as in this PDA:
So, why does that not happen? Why do the people still stick with the old style notepads for note-taking and the old-style canvas or plain paper and brush for painting? (You might say there are drawings made on Note, but the number is still low, and people still don’t find it quite enjoyable to draw on a tablet like Note; you can’t deny that.)
The reason is that it is not a perfect technology quite yet. You can create a drawing on a Note but it takes time and effort, and it is not as natural as Samsung would want you to believe. In short, when you draw on a Note, you have to keep your pen strokes under a specific speed, or the drawing will lag!
So, what causes this lag? If you go deep down into that, you will have to ask a lot of questions. And you will come to the broad conclusion that the technology has never been and will probably never be as real and perfect as the real world itself. I mean, the fastest you can play a game is if you play it outside; no camera in the world can take pictures like your eye itself; other things, such as 3D, color reproduction, sound, etc., are all better outdoors than in any of our technologies.
Within Note, why we are limited to or even tempted to draw only primitive sketches with large brush strokes is because it is easy only for that. If you want to sit down, take a deep breath, and really draw a good picture, you might want a canvas, brushes, and all kinds of oil colors. Drawing with a digital pen just doesn’t seem natural enough.
On the top of that, the lag! What causes the lag? The speed of the device, of course.
Do you know how graphics intensive a good drawing application is? One of the most graphics-intensive of Windows applications is Adobe Photoshop CC, and its minimum required CPU speed is 2 GHz with 1 GB of RAM. This means the system might actually need a big CPU of at least 3 GHz and 8 GB of RAM to run the program appreciably. Otherwise, a lag will occur. On Note II, you have a 1.6 GHz Exynos processor and 2 GB RAM, and hence it has its obvious limitations in graphics performance.
This is the reason why it is difficult to paint on Note. Drawing is possible with slow, painstaking brush strokes.
Yesterday in Computex, NVidia showed off its latest processor, Tegra 4, and its graphics performance. In the demo, CEO of NVidia, Jen-Hsun Huang showed us how Tegra 4 chip can improve the pen input performance on an Android tablet. The Verge managed to get this image of him drawing on a tablet with an old world stylus and still managing to get a good drawing out of it.
Well, the calligraphic sketch he is making doesn’t seem to involve much work, but it’s the underlying speed and precision that matters.
Remember we introduced you to the NVidia Tegra 4 chip on its unveiling back in the CES**? That same chip hasn’t yet found its way into any of the devices other than the Project Shield gaming device, also manufactured by NVidia. In Q2, we will see several devices utilizing this chip. If Note family includes a device that has NVidia Tegra 4, we might even see better graphics performance on them.
Another major competitor to Tegra 4 is the Snapdragon 600, 800 processors that have already made way into several devices.
The drawing lag on Note and other such devices is due to the speed of the processor and the graphics unit, and it will be rectified only with a much faster and better system specs.
[Image:Androidtapp; the Verge]
So, why does that not happen? Why do the people still stick with the old style notepads for note-taking and the old-style canvas or plain paper and brush for painting? (You might say there are drawings made on Note, but the number is still low, and people still don’t find it quite enjoyable to draw on a tablet like Note; you can’t deny that.)
The reason is that it is not a perfect technology quite yet. You can create a drawing on a Note but it takes time and effort, and it is not as natural as Samsung would want you to believe. In short, when you draw on a Note, you have to keep your pen strokes under a specific speed, or the drawing will lag!
So, what causes this lag? If you go deep down into that, you will have to ask a lot of questions. And you will come to the broad conclusion that the technology has never been and will probably never be as real and perfect as the real world itself. I mean, the fastest you can play a game is if you play it outside; no camera in the world can take pictures like your eye itself; other things, such as 3D, color reproduction, sound, etc., are all better outdoors than in any of our technologies.
Within Note, why we are limited to or even tempted to draw only primitive sketches with large brush strokes is because it is easy only for that. If you want to sit down, take a deep breath, and really draw a good picture, you might want a canvas, brushes, and all kinds of oil colors. Drawing with a digital pen just doesn’t seem natural enough.
On the top of that, the lag! What causes the lag? The speed of the device, of course.
Do you know how graphics intensive a good drawing application is? One of the most graphics-intensive of Windows applications is Adobe Photoshop CC, and its minimum required CPU speed is 2 GHz with 1 GB of RAM. This means the system might actually need a big CPU of at least 3 GHz and 8 GB of RAM to run the program appreciably. Otherwise, a lag will occur. On Note II, you have a 1.6 GHz Exynos processor and 2 GB RAM, and hence it has its obvious limitations in graphics performance.
This is the reason why it is difficult to paint on Note. Drawing is possible with slow, painstaking brush strokes.
Yesterday in Computex, NVidia showed off its latest processor, Tegra 4, and its graphics performance. In the demo, CEO of NVidia, Jen-Hsun Huang showed us how Tegra 4 chip can improve the pen input performance on an Android tablet. The Verge managed to get this image of him drawing on a tablet with an old world stylus and still managing to get a good drawing out of it.
Well, the calligraphic sketch he is making doesn’t seem to involve much work, but it’s the underlying speed and precision that matters.
Remember we introduced you to the NVidia Tegra 4 chip on its unveiling back in the CES**? That same chip hasn’t yet found its way into any of the devices other than the Project Shield gaming device, also manufactured by NVidia. In Q2, we will see several devices utilizing this chip. If Note family includes a device that has NVidia Tegra 4, we might even see better graphics performance on them.
Another major competitor to Tegra 4 is the Snapdragon 600, 800 processors that have already made way into several devices.
The drawing lag on Note and other such devices is due to the speed of the processor and the graphics unit, and it will be rectified only with a much faster and better system specs.
[Image:Androidtapp; the Verge]