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Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: critor on December 06, 2010, 06:56:51 pm

Title: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: critor on December 06, 2010, 06:56:51 pm
Drawing on the TI-Nspire screen without using Ndless...
And if it was possible?...


What do you think of this:
(http://i63.servimg.com/u/f63/13/23/13/53/tnic10.jpg)
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: jnesselr on December 06, 2010, 06:57:42 pm
Looks nice, but why is the bottom part of the screen blue?
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2010, 06:59:55 pm
Awesome image Critor! :D

@Graphmastur it might be due to the camera or lightning.
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: Deep Toaster on December 06, 2010, 07:01:13 pm
Nice, Critor, now we can make e-cards on the Nspire :D
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: Builderboy on December 06, 2010, 07:01:18 pm
because they used a ballpoint pen to do the drawing  <_<

Lol i don't think so, how is this possible?
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: Munchor on December 06, 2010, 07:01:53 pm
Drawing on the TI-Nspire screen without using Ndless...
And if it was possible?...


What do you think of this:
(http://i63.servimg.com/u/f63/13/23/13/53/tnic10.jpg)

That has got to be Computer-Made, like editing the picture!

No way, did they publish the file .tns?
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: SirCmpwn on December 06, 2010, 07:06:46 pm
It might be possible with a *lot* of equations...
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: critor on December 06, 2010, 07:07:58 pm
Awesome image Critor! :D

@Graphmastur it might be due to the camera or lightning.

You're right DJ.


Excale from the TI-Bank team has developped an online tool. It takes an image file and generates a valid TNS document with the image printed on the graph view (through statistics).

The image is automatically scaled to 319x213 and converted to B&W by the online tool (but you'll get the best results if you do it yourself of course).


For now, the 1st time you open the TNS, you'll have to set the window. But once saved, it won't be necessary any more.

And of course, you may add new tabs to the Nspire document. So now you can have images in Nspire documents.


Have fun:
http://tnic.franceserv.fr/index.php?lg=2


And feel free to tell us what can be improved! :)
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: apcalc on December 06, 2010, 07:21:26 pm
Very nice!

/me wishes he had calculators on his Christmas tree ;)
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2010, 07:24:34 pm
Wow this is great!
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: kyllopardiun on December 06, 2010, 07:28:15 pm
Very nice!

/me wishes he had calculators on his Christmas tree ;)

Just one, packed under the tree would be enough for me...
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: critor on December 06, 2010, 07:29:33 pm
Wow this is great!

I'm going to post a news about it in some minutes on TI-Bank.
You may post a news too if you think this tool deserves it.
You may even use my photo if you want.
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: Snake X on December 06, 2010, 07:55:30 pm
ooh! does it do animated gif's? ;D if so I'd put starcraft.swf on there (converted ofc)  >:D
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: critor on December 06, 2010, 08:10:25 pm
ooh! does it do animated gif's? ;D if so I'd put starcraft.swf on there (converted ofc)  >:D

The current method doesn't allow animation. It might be possible to add animation support without Ndless through cursors, but this is going to be very complicated.

Anyway, GIF files (even with a single plane) aren't supported yet to my knowledge.
Only BMP, JPEG, and PNG files for now (PNG support is in development).


By the way, I've just posted the TI-Bank news:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=896
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2010, 08:13:32 pm
Cool! I'll probably post a news about some programs and releases soon so this is certainly gonna be included. :)
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: critor on December 06, 2010, 08:19:47 pm
Look at the TI-Nspire on this picture from TI english FB page:
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1137.snc4/149940_166668536707112_129381793769120_322884_5752532_n.jpg)


Don't you find it strange that the TI-Nspire screens are very similar with the one above?
(with the menu and tabs being displayed on top of the image... and we're on the graph screen too as the equations are displayed below the image...)

If they just "mapped" an image, why would they need to add the graphic view equations?


Could it be that TI has allready developped a tool based on a similar method, but of course is going to keep it for its own screenshot-uses and will never release it?...
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: jnesselr on December 06, 2010, 08:23:29 pm
Interesting idea. I'm thinking that they just took a screenshot, and put the screen up there, but yes, you could be correct. I guess we'll know depending on if the method is blocked with the next os release or not. ;-)
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: AngelFish on December 06, 2010, 08:47:08 pm
They edited the face in there. If you'll notice, the pixel size of the 84+SE in front is unrealistic and the same size as the Nspire drawing. If I were of a more conspiratorial mind, I'd say the tabs were put there to f*** with us, but they probably just did that for realism.
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: willrandship on December 06, 2010, 10:18:51 pm
Yeah, people would ask how you got the picture without the tabs XD

Although, remember the health bars? It would take a while, but plot out an image with those :P
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 07, 2010, 12:10:41 am
Looks photoshopped to me.
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: Jonius7 on December 13, 2010, 10:38:55 pm
This is epic and very useful! very nice! definitely worth something
btw the first pic on the 1st post/ looks genuine except for the blue wordart style 'ti-bank.fr' at the bottom
Title: Re: Let's draw on the TI-Nspire!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 14, 2010, 03:27:22 am
It's legit. The reason why there's blue is because of the camera flash reflexion and other light reflexions.