Brainstorming for my ink drawing tool

Posted: September 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 am | Tags: graduate work

My latest project for my programming class¹ was to create a drawing tool. I opted for something rather straightforward, an ink simulation. I wanted the user to be able to create ink splatters, so I used actual inks to create the shapes I would re-create in Processing:



I realized after the fact, that I could’ve just scanned the ink splatters and import them into my applet as images. Then again, that was sorta like cheating. My solution was to procedurally generate the ink splatters using circles, Bezier curves², and triangles. You can try out my app here.

I also know there are quite alot of usability issues, but when you’re on a tight deadline, usability is usually the first thing to go >_< . I’ll probably refine this applet later on, so I can put it on my portfolio.

1. Computation as an Expressive Medium [↩]
2. which took FOREVER to get right [↩]