1. Intro to Mental Canvas

Mental Canvas is a new class of graphical-media-design system that bridges the gap between traditional drawing and 3D modeling, allowing users to create expressive 3D drawings with minimal effort. Similar to what the word processor has done for text or Photoshop has done for photography, Mental Canvas reimagines the sketch, imbuing it with new capabilities and bringing it fully into the digital age.

The Mental Canvas authoring system has two distinct modes:

1. Draw mode—sketching, inking, painting, erasing, selecting content, context-based canvas creating, canvas projection

2. View mode—exploring, interacting, viewing context, manipulating content, view-based canvas creating, canvas projection, animating flythroughs.

Each Mental Canvas scene is made up of infinite, transparent canvases that you can position anywhere in space to create 3D spatial drawings.