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Fun! Reminds me of spending a week in 2012 trying to find the perfect blackboard chalk effect http://mmoustafa.com/experiments/chalk/

After many experiments, the most realistic was painting a thick line and then erasing tiny randomly sized rectangles out of it.



It looks really good. Like, really good. I have one thing that throws me, though: if you keep drawing over the same section, you don't get more coverage. It always looks like the first pass. But I'm so surprised at how well this works to emulate chalk.


It seems the only thing that changes how covered a section is the speed you go over it with.


I need this combined with Excalidraw somehow and I would be so happy. There's something so viscerally satisfying about chalkboards, even virtual. Thanks for this! You did a phenomenal job on the chalk effect.


Hah I did something similar around the same time, using random white/gray/black pixels (apparently, I don't remember any details any more!)

https://gilleain.blogspot.com/2008/11/chalky.html


That looks awesome!


This is so cool! It'd be even more fun if it had sound effects.


You're a monster.




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