The actual drawing experience is really satisfying. A couple usability tweaks I did just fiddling in the DOM:
- Put the output and inputs side by side
- Put the "actions", export, clear, etc. pinned to the bottom
- The overall goal being zero scrolling
After that it was quite fun and I enjoyed the options you gave for things like brush size, metallics, gradients, etc. Nice!
As a programmer, maths researcher, and painter, there’s certainly something satisfying (to me) when an artistically symmetrical piece observes no mathematical symmetry: The very asymmetry in the language used to describe it is, in and of itself, beautiful.
This reminded me of such good memories of playing with http://weavesilk.com/. Nice to see someone with a similar concept.
The actual drawing experience is really satisfying. A couple usability tweaks I did just fiddling in the DOM: - Put the output and inputs side by side - Put the "actions", export, clear, etc. pinned to the bottom - The overall goal being zero scrolling
After that it was quite fun and I enjoyed the options you gave for things like brush size, metallics, gradients, etc. Nice!
When I scroll down to select a different color for my next stroke, the canvas often resets.
Edit: or rather undoes the last stroke (which looks like resetting when it goes from 1 to 0).
Same for me, while the actual clear button, ironically, does not work reliably.
As a programmer, maths researcher, and painter, there’s certainly something satisfying (to me) when an artistically symmetrical piece observes no mathematical symmetry: The very asymmetry in the language used to describe it is, in and of itself, beautiful.
Hm... is this technically a mandala? I mean - does it suffice for something to have radial symmetry to be called a mandala?
Technically, no. Colloquially, maybe.
Cool!
I made a similar thing for my kids (they wanted something similar to the kaleidoscopic drawing you can do in some ‘Monument Valley’ levels
https://mirror-it.staticdomains.app/index.html
I love this!!
Even with the perfect math, i made it ugly, lol. But it got me hypnotized, spent 10 minutes in a blink of an eye.
Ha! I added a similar feature to Open Brush: https://docs.openbrush.app/user-guide/multimirror
And learned a bit about group theory in the process... :-/
( https://github.com/IxxyXR/unity-symmetry )
I spent a lot of time playing with a similar tool in Deluxe Paint as a kid.
"Mirror" mode was my favorite feature on the Koala Pad app back in the 1980s.
we clearly need the mobile app
Cool! I got a weird feeling when playing with it, it's just something very satisfying in seeing it be completed
fwiw Krita has a similar setting in its brush tool - you draw a stroke and said brush stroke is mirrored by a given x axis or a given y axis (or both)
Bro this is hypnotic lol i spent 15 mins on this without even realising
Now we just need the mobile app