[Tuxpaint-devel] More new magic tools - Maze, Fur, Circles, Rays

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Since adding the "Googly Eyes" magic tool to what will become
Tux Paint 0.9.29, I've added four more!

The "Maze" magic tool lets you 'paint' randomly-generated mazes
over your picture.  You can create a few separate discontiguous
areas, and connect them later (within the same session of using
the tool).  That last part was tricky, but rewarding.

  https://tuxpaint.org/latest/sshots/tuxpaint-0.9.29-maze.png


My teenage son showed me a Scratch programming project [1] which
simulated circular brush strokes, by sampling parts of a background
and then selecting random spots on the image and drawing a stroke that
was at a 90-degree angle to the direction the point was, to the
cursor.  I turned this into the "Circles" magic tool.  I made a
variation that skips the 90-degree step, and called it "Rays".
You can see the results here:

  https://tuxpaint.org/latest/sshots/tuxpaint-0.9.29-circles-rays.png
  https://twitter.com/TuxPaintTweets/status/1619582449830486016


I then decided to see how it looked if I had the effect 'follow'
the mouse, rather than stay in one place, which you can see
demonstrated here:

  https://twitter.com/TuxPaintTweets/status/1619621388847050756

However, in the end, instead of doing that, I took the "Rays" effect,
shrunk it down, made it draw based on your chosen color (rather than
sampling from the existing image), and called it "Fur".  Here it is,
together with "Googly Eyes" and "Bricks" to make a picture of Cookie
Monster from Sesame Street! ;)

  https://twitter.com/TuxPaintTweets/status/1619926974453157890/photo/1

Anyway, please try them out & give any feedback.  Thanks!

-- 
-bill!
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