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This is so satisfying. These types of experiments are something I really love about the open-web, and part of what bums me out about how most social networks te
by gdubs 1y ago
This is so satisfying. These types of experiments are something I really love about the open-web, and part of what bums me out about how most social networks tend to throttle links.
The dragging behavior is so intuitive – it's funny because usually if you create this kind of resistance in a UI it can be confusing, but in this context it works so well.
- chii 1y ago> this kind of resistance in a UI it can be confusing it's actually intuitive because it mimics a real life physical dragging of an object by a rope, which most people have a feel for. Skeuomorphism can be quite intuitive imho.
- justlikereddit 1y agoTry drawing your signature with it and see how intuitive it feels.
- Bengalilol 1y agoLazy radius: 9 Friction: 0.04 Brush radius: 13 -> clear -> draw your signature
- danielheath 1y agoThat'd be an amazing phishing attempt...
- heeton 1y agoIt’s not a tool for signatures. It’s also hard to sign documents with a paint roller. But this UI is much better at, e.g. drawing a smooth, symmetrical heart symbol, with a crisp turn. Different UI for different tasks, and it’s very cool to see something that intuitively lets you control something that is normally hidden under your finger.
- DrewADesign 1y agoSkeuomorphs retain purely ornamental components of the thing it’s mimicking. If it was a graphic of a rope rather than a dashed line, or if it looked like the line was tied up around the thing in a bow, those would be skeuomorphic elements. But graphical interface elements always retain ‘some’ functional connection to the physical world and trigger ‘some’ abstracted existing metal model about how the world works. GUIs themselves conceptually mimic the idea of a physical space because it’s easier for people to reason about than a bunch of text. This is no more skeuomorphic than the reply button below the comment box.
- ahoka 1y agoThis a very nice web implementation of a feature that exists since probably forever in most graphics software.
- rerdavies 1y agoI don't think I've ever seen this feature ever before (keeping in mind that the purpose of the tool is to draw smooth lines, and there would probably be another tool for drawing signatures). It's quite brilliant!
- dtn 1y agoLazy Nezumi has been around since 2009. Stabilisers,etc. are a lot more prominent in the digital art community.
- rerdavies 1y agoYes! That's it! :-)
- paradox460 1y agoPhotoshop has had it for quite a while now. It's titled brush smoothing
- rerdavies 1y agoDoes it have the leading drag handle? That's the brilliant part. My ancient copy of Photoshop has a smoothed brush; but it doesn't have the leading drag handle.
- paradox460 1y agoKind of. You can click a gear and set various options on it, including a "pulled string mode", which works similarly to this, where it has a "smoothing radius" that movement within will not change cursor direction, and then a "stroke catch up" mode where the stroke is at a somewhat constant speed, regardless of how you move your mouse. The former looks like this https://i.imgur.com/TGE7N1z.png https://i.imgur.com/TGE7N1z.png
- unconed 1y agoI dunno why people are praising this, because it makes it impossible to do natural scribbles. It's picking the algorithm over the result. Perfect freehand is the right way to solve this.