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 Post subject: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 5:49 pm  (#1) 
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and generate unlimited abstract.
The idea is simple.
You can donate one single brush stroke at a time. It gets saved to database.
Then the generate surprise art just takes random strokes from the pool and paints them randomly.
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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke
PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2026 10:43 pm  (#2) 
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I spent a little too much time on this today.

There's option to painted donated strokes with random colors or one color.

Added option to fade stroke from solid color to a set percentage of transparency.

And then I was able to generate the below pattern which I am using on a mock-up shirt shown below:
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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:05 am  (#3) 
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Pretty cool! I saw this idea once for a Johny Cash tribute on youtube. Instead of paint strokes you donated a picture and the whole thing got animated.
Pretty neat idea. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmky9Tx2UM

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:51 am  (#4) 
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Johny Cash is the man!

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 7:33 am  (#5) 
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Ok the generator has cool options now to select up to 8 colors to be used for strokes.
Here i used the first 5 default colors black,white and primary red,yellow,blue.
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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 7:39 am  (#6) 
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I really enjoy this new option with the generator now.
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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:23 pm  (#7) 
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Later version has option to taper off strokes to a percentage of original brush width.
And painting tone difference so it looks like some sort of painted stroke.
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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2026 6:24 pm  (#8) 
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Someone suggested I try to use Product Hunt to launch the webapp so I did it'll launch tonight at midnight

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 7:45 am  (#9) 
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Added stroke credits section on the generate art page so that it lists for example
tim - 1 stroke
anonymous - 99 strokes
so people can see which or whose strokes were used in current piece.

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 8:46 pm  (#10) 
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Added option to choose wet surface so new strokes tries to smudge paint that's already there like it's wetImage

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 8:58 am  (#11) 
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We have 255 brush strokes (doodles) now.
A feature has been added - hybrid strokes which 50% morph (halfway morph) of pairs of donated strokes.
So that's over 32 thousand hybrid strokes.

So if someone donates a brush stroke now it's not just one stroke it's 1 original + 255 hybrid ones.

Also show stroke credits
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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 6:08 pm  (#12) 
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This new feature is like the coolest I ever thought of I think
https://purkara.com/donate-a-brush-stroke/replay-4.php

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2026 9:20 pm  (#13) 
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If you can wrap the strokes, you can get this one to create seamless textures.

Anyway, created the texture below.

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Made the texture seamless:

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And why not a little mathmap play. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2026 9:24 pm  (#14) 
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Thank you for joining the game!

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2026 10:02 am  (#15) 
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Very creative, Thanks Tin.

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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2026 1:48 pm  (#16) 
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Hope you don't mind, Tran; decided to turn one of your creations into a seamless texture (needed the practice). :)


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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2026 2:09 pm  (#17) 
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Decided to turn the texture into a BRL compatible sphere and then used it to BRL the shark template I acquired a few years back. :)


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 Post subject: Re: Donate A Brush Stroke - or Get Unlimited Human Stroked Abstracts
PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2026 2:32 pm  (#18) 
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And why not a droste before I do a few hours of chill; enjoying a rare 2 day weekend (at least for me). :)


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