Methods and Arrangements for Composing Information-Carrying Artwork
First Claim
1. A method comprising the acts:
- presenting on a computer screen device a graphical user interface associated with a graphics editing program, the user interface including a palette;
receiving input from a user picking a selection from the palette;
adding an element to a graphical work displayed on the screen device in accordance with the picked selection;
wherein the palette presents at least one information-carrying pattern.
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Abstract
Data defining several different information-carrying patterns can be stored on mass storage of a computer workstation and serve as a library of design elements for future designs. The same user-interface techniques that are employed to pick colors in image-editing software (e.g. Adobe Photoshop) and fill textures in presentation programs (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint) can similarly be used to present a palette of information patterns to a security document designer. Clicking on a visual representation of the desired pattern makes the pattern available for inclusion in a security document being designed (e.g. filling a desired area). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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10 Claims
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1. A method comprising the acts:
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presenting on a computer screen device a graphical user interface associated with a graphics editing program, the user interface including a palette; receiving input from a user picking a selection from the palette; adding an element to a graphical work displayed on the screen device in accordance with the picked selection; wherein the palette presents at least one information-carrying pattern. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. In a computer readable medium that stores software instructions for configuring a programmable computer system to serve as a graphics editing system, including instructions by which the system presents a palette of art elements from which a user can pick in composing or editing a graphical artwork, an improvement wherein the palette includes one or more patterns encoding machine-readable plural-bit information.
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10. A digital artwork system comprising computer hardware configured in accordance with software instructions, which presents a palette of patterns from which a user chooses to select a desired pattern for incorporation into the artwork to encode artwork with plural-bit digital information.
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