David,
I d/l'ed your examples and they are very interesting. I was most interested in
some sort of routine that would allow 3DS to do "Cartoon" type work — more of
the Disney variety versus Reboot, and your Outline routine holds some promise
in that area. I realize you may not intend it for that use but for that use
two problems/questions come to mind:
1) Your scissors example seems to indicate that your IPAS will solid shade, but
Lumiere was not shaded at all — is this (or will this be) a possibility?
Without some sort of coloring, the use of this as a Cartoon routine will be
very limited.
2) One of the biggest problems I see in any routine which tries to outline is
to be able to differentiate between the surfaces that pass in front of an
object, even if they are part of that object. The best example I can give of
this is a character's arm that is passed in front of him. Any cartoon routine
would have to outline the arm, but as the arm moves back to "merge" into the
body it needs to know when to stop. Have you been able to accomodate this?
I'm certainly interested in buying any routine which can do these things.