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Thursday, May 21st, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Making

Sphere Paint

New on Constraint Systems: Sphere Paint. Multi-player painting without edge.

A sphere surface is interesting because all points are continuous on all sides. You can respond, extend, or connect in any direction.

I'm interested to see if certain drawings might become landmarks or growing territories over time. The dynamic where you can only draw zoomed in is a play on the fact that we can only act locally, in small patches of a larger world.

I kept the feature set small - no undo, and erasing is just drawing over with white. As LLM-assisted coding opens up new possibilities I find myself looking to the physical world (like drawing on a piece of paper with our toddler) for inspiration in constraints. I'm interested in site-spaces that feel solid, self-contained, and strange.