Gregory's ServerAfter learning the neat trick to approximate distances without square root, I wanted to see if I could automate stroke thickness in oekaki for more natural brush-like lines.
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 @neauoire oh i worked out a good 4-level dither pattern for my tunnel effect:  Still poking at natural brush dynamics, flipping the values gives either the effect that the pen's ink is thinning and pooling at the corners, or that pressure is increased on longer strokes. This drawing tool packs a lot of fun for 4000 bytes. @neauoire That's looking pretty awesome already. It reminds me a bit of an 1bit mac program for Japanese caligraphy (https://www.macintoshrepository.org/14703-macintosh-calligraphy). It didn't work that great when emulating, but the idea behind it (the faster you move the mouse, the thinner the line gets) felt like a solid solution to get caligraphic lines only with the mouse. @FredBednarski oh wow, they really leaned into the brush thing. This is giving me ideas, thanks for sharing this :) @neauoire You're more than welcome. And yeah, the whole program is very much trying to simulate the experience of doing Japanese caligraphy: you mix your ink, choose different brushes, you can even take a break, look up from the page and just relax watching a garden (which I think changes with the system date, as I didn't remember it being winter last time I messed around with this program) :D  |
@neauoire looks legit