This was created by Casey Reas, who also is one of the original creators of the programming language & IDE called Processing (https://processing.org/).
I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN community, but in the media arts and education space, Processing is pretty famous.
I met Casey at a festival once and he was a remarkably kind and interested person. I think his playful approach to technology shines through in projects like the sketch machine.
Everyone is commenting how neat this is and all I got is some dots that follow my line? Then I tried to clear all frames and now it just draws a fat blobby line that doesn't move anymore?
Perhaps you were drawing with the "Select All" checkbox checked. I got stuck with no animation until I clicked "Clear Frames" with "Select All" checked and then unchecked it before drawing again. It's kind of a clunky UI, but the animation is fun
I was learning to use Krita the other day, and was surprised that while you can draw frame by frame, there's no way to draw as the clock advances (and then have the drawing converted to individual frames). Could be useful to map natural movement of a single joint over time, or turn line drawing into a video.
But this is an even better idea, drawing in a finite piece of space AND time, for its own sake. Thanks for the discovery!
I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN community, but in the media arts and education space, Processing is pretty famous.
I met Casey at a festival once and he was a remarkably kind and interested person. I think his playful approach to technology shines through in projects like the sketch machine.