Artisanal paper-making is an enjoyable hobby, and popular craft skill ranging from high-end art paper to unique personal notebooks. Cambridge has some of the world’s leading paper researchers, who study the microstructure of the paper in historical books and documents. The goal of this project is to create a physical simulator that models the fibres, fluids and forms of a traditional paper making process. The result will be not only a valuable scientific tool, but potentially a popular plug-in component to the many painting and drawing apps that offer a rather trivial range of simulated paper textures and background images.
- Copy the contents of the krita_plugin folder (/paper and paper.desktop) into your pykrita folder
To find the pykrita folder,
a. Start Krita and click the Settings ‣ Manage Resources… menu item. This will open a dialog box.
b. Click the Open Resources Folder button. The pykrita folder is located here.
- Then go to Settings - Configure Krita - Python Plugin Manager and enable “Paper” and restart
You will need python in the same version as your Krita, with numpy, pyvista, and pytorch installed.