See the image. I guess this is connected to the speed of cursor. When moving slowly, it works much better.
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ya it’s a current limitation, in the future I plan to overhaul the paint selection system to fix this issue and others
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This is one interaction that makes kinopio feel less nimble and direct. It makes the paint select feel unreliable.
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In the meantime, I’ve come up with a fix for this w some new math. Can you let me know how it performs for you?
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related but completely distinct, can you let me know how this painting feels/performs for you? it draws paint circles bw your real circle points to give the illusion of a smooth line, and sets a max number of circles to manage perf. It’s more a hack tho.
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Just tried 382 real quick on my phone and it seems to crash my browser when I start to paint 
383 feels nice and tight on mobile. Haven’t tried it on desktop yet.
Oh ya 383 also fixes a bug in 382 (which can be ported over) where press and holding will crash the browser. So I guess the most impt observation is perf differences between the two on desktop
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Cool, i tried 383 on desktop and I like it a lot so far. the current always felt like the paint “puttered” and didn’t have enough paint in the brush, but now it feels like the paint flows. I think the paint trail is shorter, but that is not necessarily worse.
side note: i feel like when connections jiggle too fast—it makes me anxious
ya the trail is shorter, that’s something i can adjust but the longer the tail the more cpu work required
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it’s a fine line between looking enthusiastic/ready and anxious i guess, I’ll look into that
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the short tail is fine to me. the faster refresh makes a huge difference in efficacy and feel, so whatever is necessary to make that performant, i’m for it
here’s a vid showing connection jiggle (1) current speed, (2) half speed. Let me know if you prefer the 2nd option
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I prefer to the 2nd option, it feels more oozy and alive
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shipped out a new paint select system that fixes this issue , and also feels awesome
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That is much, much better than before! Great fix.
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Actually, maybe is there somewhere out here a super simple tool that would do that? I.e. it would create an image that could be repeated in the way I described and then I could upload it to Kinopio?