{"id":5050,"date":"2017-03-20T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2017-03-20T00:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:20:16","slug":"feature-feature-feature-draw-feature-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=5050","title":{"rendered":"Feature feature feature draw feature feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the success of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=4865\" target=\"_blank\">Mandala maker<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been pumping out a ton of features, improvements and bug fixes. They are too numerous to list but a few stand out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Collaborative editing<\/strong> using websockets for drawing mandalas with multiple people on the same session.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drawing without mandalas,<\/strong> there are only so many Mandalas one can collaboratively draw and so I created <a href=\"http:\/\/draw.akrin.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/draw.akrin.com<\/a> which leverages all the Mandalagaba goodness for drawing and removes the mandala specific layer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read only mode<\/strong> guided by artists who like to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M-5n2TTjxLU\" target=\"_blank\">livestream their drawing<\/a>, I created a read-only mode to the collaboration. This way, people can watch but not participate.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/appsto.re\/us\/82gnib.i\" target=\"_blank\">An iOS app was born<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>High resolution renders<\/strong> are possible for $2, the charge helps with server costs and makes it a bit fairer if one was going to make money using the tool.<\/li>\n<li>Not visible but noteworthy nonetheless, an intricate <strong>server strategy<\/strong> was put in place to alleviate future waves, load balancing had to be built from scratch because of the collaboration layer.<\/li>\n<li>many, many, many other little things \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of use, while the initial tsunami is dead, the project was picked up by artists and educators. I can&#8217;t post all all the pictures for privacy but I can&#8217;t tell you how awesome it feels to receive pictures like these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Kids enjoying a Mandala making lab somewhere in China<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1951870296.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5065\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1951870296.jpeg\" alt=\"1951870296\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1134851451.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5066\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1134851451.jpeg\" alt=\"1134851451\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/peterdraws.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Draws<\/a> created more amazing work:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XUZCHzY.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5068 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/peterdraws-1022x1024.png\" alt=\"peterdraws\" width=\"604\" height=\"605\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mandala maker was deployed on big touch screens which turned it into a more social activity much like arcade games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_8010.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5071\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_8010-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_8010\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0485.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5072\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_0485.jpeg\" alt=\"IMG_0485\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s draw.akrin.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/draw.akrin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Click to pop out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 3px inset blue;\" src=\"https:\/\/draw.akrin.com\" width=\"680\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the success of the Mandala maker, I&#8217;ve been pumping out a ton of features, improvements and bug fixes. They are too numerous to list but a few stand out. Collaborative editing using websockets for drawing mandalas with multiple people on the same session. Drawing without mandalas, there are only so many Mandalas one can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=5050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feature feature feature draw feature feature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-t","category-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}