Weird Drawing Software

"Weird" in the best way, drawing software the explores new ideas beyond a facsimile of analog drafting and drawing GUI tools. Some of these tools invent new ideas for making marks and capturing gestures and some work against expectations of how drawing software should behave.

Boopy.club. Andrew Benson, 2017

• https://boopy.club/
• https://giphy.com/boopygifs

blindsketch.com. Chris Collins, 2014

• http://iamchriscollins.com/piece/blindsketch-com

Drawing Circuits. Gottfried Haider, 2013

• http://drawingcircuits.org/

Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1 (Mimicry). Sougwen Chung, 2015

• http://sougwen.com/filter/selected/Drawing-Operations-Unit-Generation-1-Mimicry

FugPaint. Ben Fry, 1998

• http://benfry.com/fugpaint/

Kid Pix. Craig Hickman, 1989

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix

Mobility Agents. John F. Simon, Jr., 2005

• http://www.numeral.com/projects/collaboration/mobility/mobility.php

Re-move. Lia, 1999-2003

• https://anthology.rhizome.org/re-move

Rhonda. Amit Pitaru et al., 2003

• http://rhondaforever.com/

Satromizer. Ben Syverson, 2009

• https://vimeo.com/4161212

Scriptographer. Jürg Lehni, 2001-2012

• http://juerglehni.com/works/scriptographer

Signwave Auto-Illustrator. Adrian Ward, 1999

• http://artelectronicmedia.com/artwork/auto-illustrator
• https://vimeo.com/17593822

Teddy. Takeo Igarashi, 1999

• http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2H35SlLmUA

Time Paint. John Maeda, 1994

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Shrub. Jeffrey Scudder, 2014

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTc6pf6OrI4

StyleClash. Jochem van der Spek, 2011

• https://vimeo.com/33715912

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MacPaint

• http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/

Harmony

• http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/

Muro

• https://muro.deviantart.com/

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DRAWING MACHINES

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