[Metroid Hunter]

Welcome to the Metro-ized "Fresh Paint".

Available now in the Windows 8 App Store.

[Guevara]

That's the worst logo I've ever seen.

[xptoxyz]

Seems like something new and not intended to replace regular Paint.

[Milchjon]

Wait, what? That was unexpected. Is it mainly for touch?

Also, while I appreciate the idea of both the name and the logo, something about the letters seems off.

[Mistle]

Noooo! It looks good!

[Benutzer]

That's the worst logo I've ever seen.

damn it is really bad...

[Metroid Hunter]

Seems like something new and not intended to replace regular Paint.

It looks like it'll gradually replace paint though. At least this looks like the only thing on the ARM version of Windows (I think Paint only runs on "Desktop mode").

[SolKane]

That's the worst logo I've ever seen.

It's a slightly improved version of the awful Windows 8 logo.

[EmCeeGramr]

this logo looks like it should be hanging in a kitsch restaurant or strip mall art gallery

[Stumpokapow]

The logo is dumb, but I actually think "Fresh Paint" is a neat name for a new version of Paint.

[Log4Girlz]

Logo was brought to you by Heinz Ketchup and French's mustard.

[Milchjon]

Seems like it simulates wet paint and the fan button on the lower left side "dries" it? That's kinda cool.

[mescalineeyes]

I love the logo itself, but yeah, the colors are inarguably bad.

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

The mustard is overpowering the ketchup in that logo.

[hateradio]

This is actually official? Didn't know MS was into mixing brushes and stuff.

[dreamcastmaster]

Yo Homes to Bel Air..

[VALIS]

Logo is hideous, but the product looks fun.

[blamite]

Uh, isn't the picture frame in the logo slanted in the wrong direction compared to every other metro logo?

[Chuckl3s]

Can it do this tho...

[strafer]

I used to use Paint like you, but then I took a Photoshop to the knee.

[lordfroakie]

Was the Logo done in Deluxe Paint? :p

[PaleFolklore]

Put that logo on a hotdog. Just the right amount of mustard.

[Frank Jaeger]

Since I never really found a reason to use something so overkill - photoshop - for my everyday use, I now have grown used to paint.net! I like and use it a lot in my scientific stuff!

[dragonelite]

Can it do this tho...

mind is fucked..... That people did that.

Shouldn't see way it can't.
Same procedure unless they changed encodings.

[Woorloog]

Can it do this tho... [IMG]http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2011/04/ikq8hS.gif[IMG]

What the hell...???

[Majine]

Can it do this tho...

That was ridiculous.

[Dennis]

sums it up nicely

[Yottamole]

Does it support pressure-sensitive drawing tablets?

[Sir Fragula]

Can it do this tho...

I don't get what I'm looking at. A lot of manual setting of colours, saving it and then pressing the set to background image option on the file?

[dragonelite]

I don't get what I'm looking at. A lot of manual setting of colours, saving it and then pressing the set to background image option on the file?

Look up pixel channel values and ascii values.

[Soka]

I don't get what I'm looking at. A lot of manual setting of colours, saving it and then pressing the set to background image option on the file?

Hello, World! being the punchline of that gif.

[LukasTaves]

I love they way they simulate paint over a canvas. Really nice.

This app feels more like ipad's Paper by 53 than paint, though.

[dragonelite]

I love they way they simulate paint over a canvas. Really nice. This app feels more like ipad's Paper by 53 than paint, though.

Wonder if microsoft will use their 1ms input touch latency patent in MS Surface?

[UraMallas]

That's the worst logo I've ever seen.

Go Cyclones! So proud!

[Hero]

Like the name, hate the logo.

[Ultratech]

Can it do this tho... [IMG]http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2011/04/ikq8hS.gif[IMG]

I remember reading about this and it blew my mind when I saw it in action.

Unsurprisingly, people can use and abuse this to run custom code. (i.e. Wrecking your shit or installing viruses)

[Akito]

Can it do this tho...

What is this I don't even

[LukasTaves]

Wonder if microsoft will use their 1ms input touch latency patent in MS Surface?

That would be amazing for pen usage, but i dunno about the price. Ms said anything regarding it when presenting the tech?

[f0lken]

Why the heck didn't use the white background for the logo? It looks awful in yellow, but the app itself looks good, I'll give it a try but honestly I only used paint to crop screenshots, then I started to use OneNote and haven't looked back

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Can it do this tho...

also, the image vocally says "hello world" when you open it up in winamp

[runningjoke]

dat skeuomorphism. Can't MS leave that to Apple?

[MNC]

Can it do this tho...

Holy fuck.

[Timedog]

It actually looks awesome. Can I get this for desktop somehow?

Logo is fine except for the colors.

[leadbelly]

Well it is inevitable they were going to do this. If you're going to make an OS that is fully compatible with touchscreen, you need to make the programs compatible also...

[hateradio]

It actually looks awesome. Can I get this for desktop somehow? Logo is fine except for the colors.

Well, you can use these apps on your desktop in "metro" (whatever they change the name to) mode.

[Stumpokapow]

What is this I don't even

The bitmap format is very simple and doesn't have any compression. You have a few bytes for header data, then a list of colours used, and then the pixel data. Each pixel is represented by an index in the colour table; so the first pixel might be represented by "colour #1", and then in the colour table, colour #1 is red. Imagine that pixel #2 is colour #72.

When you open a bitmap in Notepad, it will assume that the data is ASCII. It reads through all of the binary data in the file trying to interpret it as letters. When it reads the portion of the file that would have been pixel #2, instead of mapping it to colour #72, it reads the colour index as ASCII character #72, which is "H".

This is a simplification because I don't know enough about the Bitmap format to know exactly how each pixel data is stored, or if his spoofing method is using ASCII or Unicode, etc. but it's the gist of it.

What's more, every single piece of code that can be written on a computer can be represented as an image like this, just as every piece of writing ever (Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, the Bible, your term paper) can be represented as a piece of music or an image or another piece of writing, or your DNA could be a painting or code or music or a video game or... Everything can be represented as anything. All you need is a function that translates one representation to another.

If you're interested in how information can be stored or converted or the essential connectness of all things, consider reading Godel, Escher, Bach; one of the most important Math/Computer Science/Art/Music/Information/Philosophy books written in the last 50 years. It really is illuminating. The climax of the book has Hofstadter applying the concepts he's introduced to cognition itself--comparing a colony of ants to the human brain by arguing that each ant represents one neuron firing, and the colony the broader synaptic passages. Heavy stuff.

[yn-neko hates a cat]

God! Who cares about the logo?(!) Enough already! Does anyone know anything else about the app other than the logo?

[Soka]

What's more, every single piece of code that can be written on a computer can be represented as an image like this, just as every piece of writing ever (Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, the Bible, your term paper) can be represented as a piece of music or an image or another piece of writing, or your DNA could be a painting or code or music or a video game or... Everything can be represented as anything. All you need is a function that translates one representation to another.

This reminds me of the recent research involving storage of 700 TB of data on a single gram of DNA.

[effingvic]

these windows 8 logos all look awful

[HotHamWater]

Can it do this tho...