As an amateur watercolour artist (shameless plug: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBlKG5cMPxa" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/DBlKG5cMPxa</a>) I have to say the feeling your made with this wash is gorgeous. Back in the analogue world - paper grain and type/brand has a lot to do with it. Watercolour is really about unpredictability - it's about taking advantage of this unpredictability in terms of how the water travels down the grain and the impact that it makes, combined with light/shadow and "confidence" the artist brings with the brush. So of course it's never going to be truly transferrable digitally, but I still love the work you put into this.
Nice visualizations - have you tried Rebelle? They have an online version that lets you play with the watercolor/brushes of the painting software so you can see the colors drying on the canvas.<p><a href="https://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/rebelle/index.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/rebelle/index.php</a>
The examples display a degree of vorticity that I have never seen in real life watercoloring. They look great superficially, but they look super weird at reasonable inspection. Water on paper does not flow nearly so freely.
looks beautiful! i wanted to bookmark it because sometimes i need to explain some geometry to my son, and i have to download some sketching app each time, but with this I could just open and paint. There's one problem however. When on mobile, the page does not hid the control panel (mode, ink, etc) and it takes a large portion of the screen.
Ah yeah that's not ideal, fixed. I like the menu sticking around on iPad, but it now gets out of the way on smaller phone screens. Thanks for the reminder, I'd been meaning to do this!
(Also, tldraw.com is fantastic for quick+easy diagrams and works great on mobile if you want a better whiteboard that isn't so art-focused :) )
The interactive explanation is the best part — being able to scrub the sim while reading the writeup made it actually click.
This is so satisfying! I love how the blending looks and fluidly works.<p>I've always admired watercolor animations (especially the ones in the video game Gris) and wanted to bring that to the web, but didn't know how.
I like that adding pen strokes to a watery section continues to blend in. Ima copy you now and become a cool art person
This is awesome! The strength of the flow/advection is a bit too high imo. Maybe increase some viscosity parameter?
i like it a lot. looks beautiful