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.
The Wall
- Tap a circle to set a tile. Where you tap inside the circle points the tail.
- 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.
- Right-drag, or the hand, moves the wall. Pinch, or scroll once the wall is engaged, zooms. The painting saves itself as you go.
- The shape button switches the brush — tile, bare circle, bare diamond. A circle plus a diamond makes a square.
- The prismatic tile rolls a palette. The three lines hold every dial: tools, arrangements, palettes, canvas and export.
- 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.
- 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.
- A shape ID from the Shapes tab — tile letters such as
ACF, or a family number such as3·12— typed into the stamp bar becomes the stamp. A link ending#shape=ACFopens the Wall with that shape ready. - 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.
The Studio
Vector tools on the same lattice: selection, grouping, transforms, layers and exact-arc path work. Scope to be set.
Fresh canvas
Pattern generation onto a clean canvas, as a starting ground for painting. Scope to be set.
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.