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skilled
Love how smooth it is on mobile as well. Great project.
brokenkebab
Most produced pictures look more like an X-ray of alien insectoids than silk.
flixic
Silk inspired my Christmas Postcards project. It's now offline, but I have displayed best drawings on my site:

https://lekevicius.com/projects/postcards/

At the time it was discussed quite a bit on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966004

dmix
> and have been developing a different online experiment each year until 2017. The 2013 experiment was by far the most successful. It allowed visitors to draw their own postcards with 6-axis symmetry, creating a snowflake-looking drawing almost no matter what was being drawn.

Nice. What were the other experiments you tried doing besides snowflakes? Any reason they didn't work out?

flixic
Went back to the archives to actually remind myself all the ideas.

2012 - Virtual snowy field to plant trees and post a wish on them. A couple hundred trees planted.

2013 - This one, drawing postcards. Thousands drawn.

2014 - Live streamed a Raspberry Pi printing wishes posted on the site. 8 wishes posted. Great ROI.

2015 - Creating animated swirling "stars" drawn using spirograph patterns. A couple hundred created, later adapted to my app Spiralflow: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spiralflow/id1086402345

2016 - Cutting out snowflakes from paper. Less than a hundred made, experience of making them wasn't great.

2017 - skipped. Had an idea of making a Christmas-themed game similar to http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ but couldn't build it in time.

2018 - One last experiment: "baking" and decorating gingerbread cookies. A couple hundred made.

That was it. I don't plan to build anything this year.

luastoned
It's odd that on Android you can play with it, whereas on iOS you are only prompted to download the 3,49€ app.
kossae
It seems to work on iOS if you 'Request Desktop Site', although it's not that responsive (likely by design).
nerder92
Blame it on Apple 99$/Y vs the 25$/Lifetime on Android.
lijogdfljk
This is great! If I had a way of using it to create animations for my iOS lock screen I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
loa_in_
Would you consider adding multiple touch points? Why (not)?
abhinuvpitale
good question, I am guessing keeping the symmetry fixed with multiple points and tracking them could make it messy, I guess
yurivish
Hi, the app does support up to 11 multiple touch points. I'm not sure if the API was around to implement it on the web at the time this website was made, or if it was I wasn't aware of it. Multitouch on the iPad works with both fingers and the pencil.
smdz
Whenever I try something it looks like an X-ray image :|
el_tone
Interactive gyneacological art.
drawnwren
I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw that.
stefs
for some reason, i only ever draw skulls.
chirau
umm, what is this? The randomness defeats the purpose, i think
garysahota93
I just spent 30 mins on this site... It's mesmerizing!
2038AD
I was still in school when I first found this :)
ermir
I was just messing around with this and experimenting with the features, when a human shape slowly started coming out of my unconsciousness. At the end when I realized what was coming out, I strove to finish, and it turns out quite angelic.

http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=dwz2p4vwngg&fbclid=IwAR3Z4W8Y...

ProAm
I found if you pressed and held the mouse in one spot often a human-like head would form. Really neat.
godman_8
I remember seeing this and a ton of similar sites on StumbleUpon nearly a decade ago.