Doodal
May 28, 2014 8:32 PM   Subscribe

Doodal is a freehand fractal doodling program that runs in your browser.
posted by narain (12 comments total) 33 users marked this as a favorite
 
Note that not all the controls are immediately obvious, so reading the instructions below the canvas is very helpful. In particular, "if your picture turns into a blob, paint over it with a coloured wash to show more structure".

Doodal was made by Neil Thapen (@pishtaq).
posted by narain at 8:35 PM on May 28, 2014 [1 favorite]


nifty!
posted by vespabelle at 8:53 PM on May 28, 2014


Looks awesome from the video. Can't use it on my phone, though...maybe there'll be an app soon.
posted by leahwrenn at 9:39 PM on May 28, 2014


Wow! As someone who remembers being blown away by my mid-90's PC's ability to slowly render blocky Mandlebrot views, it seems like it should be, well, nearly impossible to do something like this at all -- especially in a freaking web browser, for crying out loud.
posted by treepour at 9:59 PM on May 28, 2014 [1 favorite]


Yeee Haaaa
posted by vrakatar at 10:03 PM on May 28, 2014


I don't think it's a Mandlebrot set, like from 90s lore. Looks more like mirroring trickery to give the appearance of a fractal (though I guess that's what a fractal is).
posted by stbalbach at 10:46 PM on May 28, 2014


These look more like Iterated Function System fractals...still very cool.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:47 PM on May 28, 2014 [2 favorites]


The youtube video makes it seem so intuitive, but I'm finding that I don't have as great a grasp on fractals as I thought I did. Still, it's super fun.
posted by Phredward at 9:16 AM on May 29, 2014


If you're finding this frustrating, Silk gives you quick beauty, though the images it produces are only symmetrical (under isometries), not self-similar (under dilations) like fractals.
posted by benito.strauss at 10:22 AM on May 29, 2014


ahh I love fractals! Thanks for posting this
posted by rebent at 7:00 PM on May 29, 2014


So I've watched the video several times, how does he mirror the frame? Resize and rotate are obvious, but I can't figure out mirror.
posted by MrBobaFett at 8:25 PM on May 29, 2014


Shift+click on an edge to flip it with its opposite edge. The little square in the corner helps you keep track of orientation.
posted by narain at 9:39 PM on May 29, 2014 [2 favorites]


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