Mini Paint

About

A simple merciless drawing software where you can't rewind your mistakes. You must erase them like real painting. Color options are also limited and so is canvas size. Make the best use of the space.

History

One day, in between classes, I noticed I was doodling on my Surface Pro 3. I thought, 'How hard could it be for me to create my own drawing software?' And that's how the journey of creating this simple mini version of Paint began.

Minor Challenges

Every curve was not really a curve. It's just a bunch of lines connected very closely to make it look like a line. When the mouse is pressed down, every frame it would connect previous dot with the current dot making a straight line. Increasing FPS would make the lines look smoother and the curves would be realistic, and lowering would make it choppy.

30 Hz

As you can see with 30 Hz, the lines are very choppy and you can't really call that a curve.

60 Hz

With 60 Hz, you can see more of curves but still a bit choppy when it comes to fast circles.

120 Hz

It's definitely usable with 120 Hz, but not recommended for professional artists.

240 Hz

Not bad, but could be better.

480 Hz

This is definitely seamless.

Since we only set the FPS to 480 when the pen is pressed and idle is 10 Hz, it's safe to use 480 Hz. Also this only affects CPU and not memory performance.

How to Use

• Pressing "E" key will switch the brush to white color essentially to erase.
• Pressing "S" key will save the current image to Desktop with timestamp.
• Pressing "[" key to decrease brush size and "]" to increase brush size.
• Pressing "ESC" key to clear the entire canvas.

Demo Video

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