Creature House Expression
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| Creature House Expression | |
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 Screenshot of Creature House Expression 3.3.372 |
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| Developed by | Creature House, now acquired by Microsoft |
| Latest release | 3.3.372 / Nov 2003 |
| OS | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X |
| Genre | Vector graphics editor with skeletal stroke capability |
| License | Freeware Proprietary EULA |
| Website | www.microsoft.com |
Creature House Expression was a vector graphics editor initially developed by Creature House in tandem with Fractal Design Corporation and later MetaCreations as a companion to Painter. At the time, Creature House was an independent Hong Kong software studio. Expression tried to duplicate Painter's UI as close as possible and was available for Mac OS and Windows.
Some time after Fractal Design and MetaTools merged into MetaCreations, a public company, management decided to thin out the product portfolio and focus on a more specific audience. Expression ended up back with Creature House who released two versions of the software under their own brand name, Expression 2 and Expression 3.
Eventually, Microsoft purchased Creature House and continued development under the code name Acrylic. In 2007, the original Expression application became part of Microsoft's Expression Studio suite of applications, rebranded and rewritten in WPF as Microsoft Expression Design. Windows XP and Vista versions are available, although Mac OS X support has officially been discontinued.
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[edit] Skeletal stroke
Expression uses a unique technology called skeletal stroke. There have been a few research papers on this technology, including the work of Alex S. C. Hsu and Irene H. H. Lee,[1] who are the original developers of Expression.
[edit] See also
- Microsoft Expression Design, the new product based on Creature House Expression
- List of vector graphics editors
- Comparison of vector graphics editors
[edit] External links
[edit] Download Creature House Expression from Microsoft
- Archive.org archive of home page
- Windows version (57.3 MB), requires registration
- [2], direct link to above file, does not require registration
- Mac OS 8/9/X version (55.8 MB), requires registration; there are versions for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X in the archive
- Update to Mac OS X version for Mac OS 10.3.5; fixes a startup problem (2.9 MB), no registration required
- November 1996: Fractal Design Ships Expression for Macintosh
