Mignon Sketch
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Overview
Every morning I visit a nearby shrine to pray, and this is an app I thought of at one of those times.
The nearby shrine is Meiji Jingu; in the morning I run to near the Harajuku branch of the Shibuya Fire Station, and then walk slowly along the approach to the shrine to make my visit. On the way there I look back on the previous day, and on the way back I think about today, something like that, and one way or another it has become a daily habit.
Whenever I pray at the shrine, I don't ask for anything specific; every day I pray, "May I be myself today as well."
At the time I was thinking about things like whether or not I should concentrate on painting, and I was even thinking of just retiring from programming. Around then, as I was heading home after finishing my visit, a feeling suddenly came down to me, smoothly, that I could just do everything that is like me, and what I started making that very day is this Mignon.
I borrowed the name Mignon from Goethe. Partly because I was writing a novel with Faust as its motif, and also because Goethe is famous for his Theory of Colours, so I thought it would be just right for a paint app.
Honestly, even I don't yet know what the app's distinguishing features are. In any case, I hope it becomes something that is like me.
The current implementation has as its skeleton an orthodox paint app based on stamp-based brushes, but honestly, for me, whose work is mainly analog, although I can build the app itself, the fit is not very good. I can't help feeling there are many patterns that seem not beautiful.
For that reason, I have a plan to switch the brushes themselves to physically simulated brushes. The idea of pigment moving as a fluid within a medium feels closer to me. However, stamp-based brushes also have good points, and how to make the two coexist is undecided.