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Re: Recursive Drawing

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I like this a lot. I wish there were smaller starting shapes, or that you could draw a starting shape with your cursor.

Watch the demo video. You can resize the shapes by just dragging, it's actually really intuitive (if only we hadn't been trained that only little dots at the corner mean you can resize or rotate!).

Re: Recursive Drawing

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This is non-responsive for me at the moment, how does this compare to http://www.contextfreeart.org/ ? Is it a visual interface to define the rule system, rather than the programming language approach? If so does it escape the same traps that other visual languages fall into?

It is extremely awesome. Demo video is at http://vimeo.com/41822151

Re: Recursive Drawing

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Old trick. Go search for [postscript snowflake] sometime. Great fun for drawing psychedelic images and/or crashing network printers. (It turns out that .ps is actually an archaic programming language and not just a page description language.)
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