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Paint

Mark-making on the nuna lattice. Every mark is a whole circle, a whole diamond, or a whole tile — circle fused to diamond — set on a plain of circles and diamonds that runs in every direction.

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The Wall

Local — saved in this browser only Shared wall · not yet connected
  1. Tap a circle to set a tile. Where you tap inside the circle points the tail.
  2. Drag to lay a run of tiles along the stroke. Tap a laid tile to recolour it; hold and drag its circle to move it, its diamond to swing the tail.
  3. Right-drag, or the hand, moves the wall. Pinch, or scroll once the wall is engaged, zooms. The painting saves itself as you go.
  4. The shape button switches the brush — tile, bare circle, bare diamond. A circle plus a diamond makes a square.
  5. The prismatic tile rolls a palette. The three lines hold every dial: tools, arrangements, palettes, canvas and export.
  6. The brush picker, bottom left, holds the three pieces: the nuna tile, the bare circle and the bare diamond. A circle and a diamond side by side make a square.
  7. Make stamp lifts a piece of the wall. Arm it, drag a box across painted tiles, and the copy follows the pointer — tap to lay it, as many times as you like. Turn and Mirror work on the copy; each laid copy is one undo.
  8. A shape ID from the Shapes tab — tile letters such as ACF, or a family number such as 3·12 — typed into the stamp bar becomes the stamp. A link ending #shape=ACF opens the Wall with that shape ready.
  9. New canvas clears the wall and can be undone. Save to a file keeps a wall you want to come back to; Open a file lays it back down.

B paint · F fill · E erase · S brush shape · M make stamp (then R turn · X mirror) · H hand · Z undo · 1–9 swatch · Esc leave stamping or full screen. Keys act only while the pointer is over the wall.

2

The Studio

In planning

Vector tools on the same lattice: selection, grouping, transforms, layers and exact-arc path work. Scope to be set.

3

Fresh canvas

In planning

Pattern generation onto a clean canvas, as a starting ground for painting. Scope to be set.

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Notes

For Aaron to write

What the Wall is for. Why a shared surface, and what a mark on it should mean.

Where the Paint tools came from — the white board in the game suite, the surface paint tab.

What the Library version allows that the surface one deliberately doesn't.