Hi Krita folks,

I recently saw a short documentary (Y.T.) about Microsoft GUSTAV
which was designed to deliver a real world painting experience.
Mixing brushes and colors natively was just ONE Aspect for them.

Hopefully no patent-war is existent otherwise the new "mix colours"
functionality within Krita is to be disappearing faster than you
can expect it.

Even Corel could have such patents...

Besides, after a quick board seach nothing else found, I am hoping
that I am not SPAMMING the board with this topic.

Yours sincerely, AndreasP

Ah, Bill Baxter is still going strong, I see. He has published a number of papers on this topic, as well as demo videos and a Phd theses (http://www.billbaxter.com). His work is very interesting, but our natural color mixing is quite different from his as far as maths and methods go, so I think we're quite safe.

Corel does indeed have a patent about mixing colors in a palette using additive color models, but that's again not what we have.

More generally speaking, I am sure Krita violates hundreds of patents all over the world: it's impossible to write a graphics app without doing so.