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Re: Recursive Drawing

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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

Then you don't get the nice page sliding animation when swiping to go forward/back in Safari.

Re: Recursive Drawing

#46

This is awesome. But why isn't the triangle, the most basic polygon, a primitive? Is there a specific reason for this?

Well, looking at the source code [1], I think they thought about it. Have you tried to modify it and run again?

[1]: https://github.com/electronicwhisper/recursive-drawing/blob/...

Re: Recursive Drawing

#47
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Then you don't get the nice page sliding animation when swiping to go forward/back in Safari.

"nice page sliding animation" vs "[losing] all of your data" does not sound like a difficult decision to me.

Re: Recursive Drawing

#48

Textual instructions (if you don't want to watch the demo video): The left column is the shapes library. The center area is the canvas/workspace. The right area is an outline view of the shapes in the canvas. To add a shape to the canvas, drag your mouse from the shape in the shape library to the workspace. To move a shape, drag inside it, when the whole shape is highlighted red. To resize and rotate a shape, drag th…

Wow, the Sierpinski triangle was difficult to achieve without any precision snapping tools.
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