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Re: Drawing.garden

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Little toys like this are the spirit of the web. I'd never go through the rigamarole of downloading and deleting an app to fiddle with this for two minutes, but I sure as heck will click a link.

Re: Drawing.garden

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post #24

Little toys like this are the spirit of the web. I'd never go through the rigamarole of downloading and deleting an app to fiddle with this for two minutes, but I sure as heck will click a link.

I agree. This is the kind of thing I'd love to see more of on the web.

Re: Drawing.garden

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post #17

Does anybody know of an application to more easily map out a garden space?

If you’re not used to using regular design tools, I recommend using a spreadsheet like a low-res bitmap to make a map. It’s as simple or complex as you want it to be, short of making a 3d or writing a real application—- from painting cells with fill colors to scripting.

If you’re looking for something more visual, have a dedicated video card, and don’t mind going down a bit of a rabbit hole, do it unreal engine with the bazillion existing free assets. It’s one of the simpler 3D environments to learn to navigate and you can just drag and drop stuff from the free assets. I don’t know that I’ve seen another complex application that’s embraced the “batteries included” concept any more thoroughly. Of course, you can go as deep as you want, but I’ll bet you could get very pretty version up and running in an afternoon.

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