Hm... is this technically a mandala? I mean - does it suffice for something to have radial symmetry to be called a mandala?
Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it
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#12Bro this is hypnotic lol i spent 15 mins on this without even realising
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#13When 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).
Same for me, while the actual clear button, ironically, does not work reliably.
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#14I spent a lot of time playing with a similar tool in Deluxe Paint as a kid.
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#15As 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.
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#16Even 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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#17we clearly need the mobile app
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#18Hm... is this technically a mandala? I mean - does it suffice for something to have radial symmetry to be called a mandala?
Technically, no. Colloquially, maybe.
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#19This reminded me of such good memories of playing with http://weavesilk.com/. Nice to see someone with a similar concept.
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#20The 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.