Some Words on WigglyPaint
Some Words on WigglyPaint In early December 2023, I wrote a drawing program called WigglyPaint and published it on Itch.io. All the drawing tools in WigglyPaint are animated, providing a live, automatic Line Boil effect: Internally, WigglyPaint maintains three image buffers and edits them simultaneously, with different types of randomization applied for different drawing tools; many tools apply a random position offset between stroke segments or randomly select different brush shapes and sizes: We cycle through displaying the buffers at roughly 12 frames per second- a familiar speed for limited animation- though the drawing itself is processed more responsively. Three frames is something of a sweet spot: using only two frames produces an unpleasant jittering effect, and more than…
