in fact, this was already posted in the past [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17600629], which is when I suggested them to include recursive drawing, but that user doesn't seem to be active around here
you can go to their blog / contact us if you need to get in touch with them
Wow holy shit. I had forgotten about this thread which is indeed what put the seed in my brain for adding recursive drawing.
I knew I read about it somewhere and the idea go wedged in my brain until it was implemented. That's pretty much how everything works :) But it's kind of cool to see the exact moment of inception from months ago.
Yeah I remember googling this and not being able to stop thinking about it. The same was true for tessellations and radial symmetry before that.
What a fitting conclusion that we both find ourselves here with your suggestion implemented. I'm indeed not active on HN but I do show up when my servers get hammered by it :).
Thank you for the idea, I hope you're satisfied with the implementation :)
If you go to the pro facet of the site (https://pro.mandalagaba.com) you'll see you can mix radial symmetry, with tessellation, with recursion... If you like it all, you can have it all in one pen stroke :).
Let's just say that baking recursion in was extremely complex. I had to sit down in front of my computer for a couple of hours every night for a good 2 months to have it implemented and free of bugs.
Hahah, congratulations on completing the implementation! You might not believe it, but I visited the page just two days ago and saw the updates! I wanted to show mandalagaba to one of my little cousins, let him play with it for a bit. I connected my laptop to the tv screen, and then a mouse with a long cable to the laptop, so we wouldn't have anything in the way... we started playing with some fluid simulations, which are super fun... sadly, I couldn't get mandalagaba to work afterwards, I don't know if the HDMI connection caused some problem with the detected resolution, or if there was any other temporary issue... we had fun anyway, I'll definitely show him the page another day.
Really amusing to meet again. I don't have any new idea in mind which doesn't kinda lead mandalagaba to become a full fledged image edition program (layers, brushes, some effects, changing hues and tones, etc.), but if I come up with something nice I'll tell you. As seen in this thread, maybe devices (like a drawing compass) with multiple articulations? (you might also find some inspiration with polar coordinates and waves in this nice video about fourier transforms by 3Blue1Brown [https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY?t=233], like at 3:53 or 5:14). Keep up the good work!
