Adobe is partnering with Nvidia to take screen-based visual arts to the next level. Project Wetbrush is a proposed paint simulator that will mimic the texture, viscosity, and "bristle-level" interactions that you'd get from real paint on a real canvas.

Visual art in a digital medium has long been a tradeoff: the advantage of painting in a digital world is the ease of manipulation, but the sacrifice is, well, nothing you make in MS Paint is going to look like Van Gogh's "Starry Night."

Whenever it comes out, Wetbrush will allow you to produce paintings on a screen, as well as to mix colors, build up three dimensional paint on a surface, and make it look like the real thing.