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  wky
  This reminded me of such good memories of playing with http://weavesilk.com/. Nice to see someone with a similar concept.
• arist0tl3
  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 scrollingAfter that it was quite fun and I enjoyed the options you gave for things like brush size, metallics, gradients, etc. Nice!
• nayuki
  I experimented with this concept over a decade ago: https://www.nayuki.io/page/symmetry-sketcher-javascriptI was probably inspired by mouse-painting tools in Corel Photo-Paint (like Adobe Photoshop) that have an "orbits" feature. https://product.corel.com/help/PHOTO-PAINT/540111130/Main/EN...
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  GavinMcG
  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).
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  catoc
  Cool!I made a similar thing for my kids (they wanted something similar to the kaleidoscopic drawing you can do in some ‘Monument Valley’ levelshttps://mirror-it.staticdomains.app/index.html
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  intrasight
  Feature request it would be fun to draw snowflakes but to do that there'd have to be another setting to constrain things you draw to be straight lines at just the angles that ice crystals would allow.
• kazinator
  I'm like:Neat! I will show this to my small kids.Wait, nope; they already know how to make mandala coasters offline with scissors and paper.
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  larodi
  Hm... is this technically a mandala? I mean - does it suffice for something to have radial symmetry to be called a mandala?
• andybak
  Ha! I added a similar feature to Open Brush: https://docs.openbrush.app/user-guide/multimirrorAnd learned a bit about group theory in the process... :-/( https://github.com/IxxyXR/unity-symmetry )
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  fractorial
  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.
• smusamashah
  The control panel should have been on the side instead of below the image. I scroll to bottom, mandalla disappears on top in the screen, I click generate, then I scroll back up, repeat.
• timbaiguzhinov
  Even with the perfect math, i made it ugly, lol. But it got me hypnotized, spent 10 minutes in a blink of an eye.
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  fiskeben
  I spent a lot of time playing with a similar tool in Deluxe Paint as a kid.
• thraxil
  "Mirror" mode was my favorite feature on the Koala Pad app back in the 1980s.
• aghilmort
  lots of fun! like etch-a-sketch, lite-brite, spirograph, paint, etc. on steroids!!
• albinn
  Cool! I got a weird feeling when playing with it, it's just something very satisfying in seeing it be completed
• aaroninsf
  Suggestion OP if you would like one:Support click-and-spin with momentum: I clicked outside the mandala and quick-dragged horizontally, hoping this would spin the mandala.You could support zero-friction and momentum, slowly stopping.In either this unlocks a dramatically new aesthetic: clicking on the rotating surface draws splines. The mapping of gesture-to-line (hence mandala elements) changes completely.There are some complications, intuitively one might expect "pottery wheel mode" where symmetry is not enabled... I think that would be "unlearned" however.
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  OttoZ05
  we clearly need the mobile app
• abhishxk1
  Bro this is hypnotic lol i spent 15 mins on this without even realising
• Gualdrapo
  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)
• aussieguy1234
  Now we just need the mobile app
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