102 comments

[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 180 ms ] thread
Took me a minute to grok what was happening, but once I did it provided around 5 minutes of amusement. I'd love to see it developed further with additional, uhmm, brushes? Not sure what to call the things that actually paint and mod the canvas...

Kudos to whoever made it, though. Very creative!

I'm confused, are there controls other than clicking the "No" and "Paint" buttons?
Nope. You wait, you press either "No" or "Paint".

EDIT: Apparently, I was wrong. See below.

Actually, there are! You can click below those buttons, where it says the name of the "brush," and it will bring up a full on-screen keyboard (looks like it was meant to be used on phones?) and you can type the name of the "brush" you want. There are some cool ones which seem less common than others? I found "Quicksand" and "Recurse", the latter of which I only saw once naturally, but I could deliberately re-invoke it and got a pretty neat effect in my opinion!
Yeah I plan to add lots of brushes with parameters so that feature can eventually be used to filter down the stochastic brushes and people can make “recipes” for one another to get interested in both painting and programming.
Right arrow selects the next brush. Left arrow cancels the effect of the current brush and selects another.
Yeah and spacebar opens the command prompt so you can type - with up and down arrows to pause and unpause.
Everything seems to be preferentially placed on the left side.
This put a smile on my typically stressed face. I love how lighthearted it is. Thanks!
That's silly and fun :)

I can't grok why its getting up voted though.

For some reason it made me feel that this could have been a minigame inside Game Boy Camera... The trippy factor is similar, thanks!
good 5-15 minute game for a party with a lazer projector and a lot of booze and acid
Note: it's better with sound.
If I had some cocaine money to launder I bet I could get $10,000,000 for my piece.
(comment deleted)
The music/sfx is amazing. Feels super "old internet" :D
Reminds me of some of the effects in KidPix, sound and all.
I came here to say the same thing, the brush sound effects take me back to sitting on my old Macintosh Quadra, messing around aimlessly -- doodling on kidpix.

I think I played Myst on that machine too.

Such nostalgia. I remember Kid Pix and Myst on my Mac IIsi.
This was fun. I wonder if the code/algo behind this tends towards a certain type of painting or "average".

Reminds me of this video that shows what the youtube codec tends towards over a 1000 reuploads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR4KHfqw-oE

It's crazy how severe that a/v sync issue is. Is that something with his setup or is YouTube just terrible?
His setup is normal. It’s a recreation of well known audio experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room
> Lucier said that a performance need not use his text, and that the performance may be recorded in any room.[citation needed]

I can't help but feel like the "citation needed" should be after "Lucier said". Otherwise, it reads like it's saying that the fact that it could work in any room with any text needs a citation.

He mentions this at some point. Youtube shifts back the audio track ever so slightly on upload. After 800ish uploads it is completly gone from the video.

But I don't understand why this would happen.

I was about to say this feels like a Jeffrey Scudder piece. Then I hit the about, and it IS a Jeffrey Scudder piece.

Jeffrey, I love your work, and it's great to see you making more paint tools!

That was silly but very fun. Are you using ML algos to generate the paint based on the user input?
I can't tell. Is this a trick question?
No it’s a novelty based approach and the only learning that takes place is inside you at the moment. It’s just a MVP because I thought the idea of a one handed painting app could help people who fell out of doodling get back into the fun of it.
That's such a dumb way to paint. Great job!

Here's one: https://i.imgur.com/9efzWaC.png

How long did it take you to get to this result?
Wow, flashback to playing with various Mode-13h DOS paint programs as a kid.
Mario Paint-esque feel with the sound effects. I dig it.
I absolutely love the sounds. Makes the whole thing feel very playful.