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Recursive Drawing

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Re: Recursive Drawing

#31
It would be quite nice if the page popped an alert before leaving. OSX/Chrome has the irritating "feature" whereby dragging two fingers loses all of your data. err... navigates backwards. Looking to disable this, but asking before navigating would be an improvement.

Re: Recursive Drawing

#33
post #11

This is the new best thing ever. I am probably going to make strange trees until I fall asleep on my keyboard. I hate waking up with keys stuck to my face, but the trees will be there to comfort me in the morning.

Maybe they'll grow overnight!

Re: Recursive Drawing

#34

this is awesome. support for deltas on transparency and colors would be really cool. also snapshot to save and share a picture

Yeah it's so close to being a nice little "toy" to share around. Just needs a slightly more intuitive UI (deleting isn't immediately obvious) and a share button and the server will get hammered.

Re: Recursive Drawing

#36

this is awesome. support for deltas on transparency and colors would be really cool. also snapshot to save and share a picture

Yeah it's so close to being a nice little "toy" to share around. Just needs a slightly more intuitive UI (deleting isn't immediately obvious) and a share button and the server will get hammered.

word. yeah there's some bugs tho. after making something recurse with some circles, adding squares really turned it on its head for me. i dug the glitches tho. fun to watch it render too..the dynamics are pretty nice. got some screenshots here http://look.person.sh/tagged/recursivedrawing

Re: Recursive Drawing

#38
post #31

It would be quite nice if the page popped an alert before leaving. OSX/Chrome has the irritating "feature" whereby dragging two fingers loses all of your data. err... navigates backwards. Looking to disable this, but asking before navigating would be an improvement.

Under System Preferences -> Trackpad -> More Gestures set the swipe gesture to 3 fingers only

Re: Recursive Drawing

#39
That's pretty fun!

One thing I'd like to see is holding down Ctrl (or something) allowing resizing while doing something like snap-to-grid. I.e. avoid rotation and allow you to change the aspect ratio.

I think this would be useful for making rectangles.

Re: Recursive Drawing

#40
post #27
post #14

Does anybody have any insights into how this was developed? Does the author care to chime in?

ctrl-u is your friend. Libraries used include jquery and knockout.js. The meat of the app seems to be here http://recursivedrawing.com/compiled/app.js

It's actually considerably easier to read in the GitHub repo, where it's in its native coffeescript, and not combined into one file: https://github.com/electronicwhisper/recursive-drawing/tree/....
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