I experimented with this concept over a decade ago: https://www.nayuki.io/page/symmetry-sketcher-javascript

I was probably inspired by mouse-painting tools in Corel Photo-Paint (like Adobe Photoshop) that have an "orbits" feature. https://product.corel.com/help/PHOTO-PAINT/540111130/Main/EN...

This reminded me of such good memories of playing with http://weavesilk.com/. Nice to see someone with a similar concept.

Feature request it would be fun to draw snowflakes but to do that there'd have to be another setting to constrain things you draw to be straight lines at just the angles that ice crystals would allow.

The actual drawing experience is really satisfying. A couple usability tweaks I did just fiddling in the DOM: - Put the output and inputs side by side - Put the "actions", export, clear, etc. pinned to the bottom - The overall goal being zero scrolling

After that it was quite fun and I enjoyed the options you gave for things like brush size, metallics, gradients, etc. Nice!

When 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).

Cool!

I made a similar thing for my kids (they wanted something similar to the kaleidoscopic drawing you can do in some ‘Monument Valley’ levels

https://mirror-it.staticdomains.app/index.html

The 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.

lots of fun! like etch-a-sketch, lite-brite, spirograph, paint, etc. on steroids!!

As 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.

Hm... is this technically a mandala? I mean - does it suffice for something to have radial symmetry to be called a mandala?

Ha! I added a similar feature to Open Brush: https://docs.openbrush.app/user-guide/multimirror

And learned a bit about group theory in the process... :-/

( https://github.com/IxxyXR/unity-symmetry )

Even with the perfect math, i made it ugly, lol. But it got me hypnotized, spent 10 minutes in a blink of an eye.

I spent a lot of time playing with a similar tool in Deluxe Paint as a kid.

"Mirror" mode was my favorite feature on the Koala Pad app back in the 1980s.

Cool! I got a weird feeling when playing with it, it's just something very satisfying in seeing it be completed

we clearly need the mobile app

Bro this is hypnotic lol i spent 15 mins on this without even realising

fwiw Krita has a similar setting in its brush tool - you draw a stroke and said brush stroke is mirrored by a given x axis or a given y axis (or both)

Now we just need the mobile app