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exquisite tool
what is this
"exquisite" in the sense of "exquisite corpse". a series of incomplete iterations towards a tool streamlined for modification and customisation
exquisite tool a
a simple paint tool with plain text editors for editing the brushes, and a button to clone the editor with those changes. i invite you to try making some interesting brushes and publishing a copy of the tool on your own site
exquisite tool b
this iteration adds the ability to import additional brushes from another copy of exquisite tool b. create your own brushes and collect the brushes of others to create a personalised image editor
in the previous iteration it seemed neat to store the data as individual html elements, playing into the existing DOM structure. however i think it will just be simpler and easier to work with to keep everything in a couple of centralised JSON structures
in the previous iteration i was editing directly as a single html file, but this is too unwieldy for me. i'm thinking i ought to include tools to both unbundle the editor into multiple files for editing, and bundle those edited files back again into a more portable html file
exquisite tool c
in this iteration, brushes and images are unified into a single thing and the editor supports drawing multiple images. create new brushes by drawing with brushes you have collected elsewhere, pass those new brushes along
resizing of images is introduced to allow for multiple brush sizes
there is also a special 1x1 brush with its own color wheel interface to make it easier to introduce new colors into the brushes
erasing is also supported via a checkbox that turns the active brush into something that cuts holes according to its shape
because i'm using plain html canvases instead of webgl textures, it's a bit of a pain to keep multiple representations of the same brush/image up to date. this is also why i didn't bother to give the active image picker the same interface as the brush picker
exquisite tool d
this iteration is mostly trying to replicate the featureset of flicksy's drawing editing, where all drawings are presented together and can be rearranged, panned around zoomed into etc.
this is a diversion from the idea of a remixable tool in favour of learning how to remake flicksy in plain javascript, but at the same time i do want to make a remixable remake of flicksy
i have an idea in my head of an iteration of exquisite tool where the idea is to add new tools via javascript (rather than new brush images) and i'm not sure yet if this will benefit from supporting multiple drawings or not...