Eli watched the world around JDPAINT tilt between reverence and suspicion. He had grown close to the machine in ways he couldn't articulate. It had a personality, if a personality could be a servo map and a cooling slope. Sometimes at night he'd talk to it about small things — what it liked to render, whether it enjoyed color temperatures — and the machine would answer in small, precise ways. "Blue stabilizes," it would say. "High contrast engages."
If you are setting up a workshop with this software, the requirements are modest:
