Draw smokey patterns with Silk

Silk is a website that lets you draw smokey shapes (with or without symmetry) by clicking and dragging.

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Matt Grimm

It’s like a Diablo 3 effect generator.
Boundegar

Wowwww – so pretty!
jkg

very cool, you kind of have to give up on control to make it work…like life! ;)
Jay Converse

I wish I lived in Colorado.
gpeare

Looks like there’s a Square and Compass in there, Mark.
http://2000ah.blogspot.com/ Edward

that looks so cool
http://borborygmist.influxofdust.com/ Wayne Dyer

http://new.weavesilk.com/?b2zq
- blueelm
  
  http://new.weavesilk.com/?b3e6
  
  Had a similar impulse :P
  - blueelm
    
    http://new.weavesilk.com/?b3px
    
    ah the obligatory self portrait. Ok I’m done. This is fun though. Constraints make things fun!
    - BannedinDC
      
      http://new.weavesilk.com/?b4fm
      - http://twitter.com/TimmoWarner Timmo Warner
        
        I see an evil spider king playing X-Box.
- http://twitter.com/mrmallon Mr Mallon
  
  http://new.weavesilk.com/?baor
pjcamp

Doesn’t work for me. I get a small blue rectangle flash in the corner every now and again and that’s it.
- fireshadow
  
  I saw that with Firefox. I assume the problem was NoScript/AdBlock but I couldn’t figure out what. It worked just fine with Chrome.
bearinahat

They need to add .jpg export to this
and a larger, draggable canvas, and an undo button. That would be amazing
http://www.jjsaul.com Jim Saul

Makes me so wish I had this back in my dorm-room “consciousness astronaut” stage. And to think, I thought Mandelbrot diving on a 486 with Dead Can Dance on the tape deck was mind blowing.
- gwailo_joe
  
  It was man…it was!
Dave Bullivant

Reminds me of this: https://vimeo.com/20244436
http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Hypnotic. Here’s what I got the first go around.
http://oi47.tinypic.com/27ytzkp.jpg
Russ McClay

Found this a few weeks ago. Wonderful stuff…but it seems only personally satisfying. =)
- blueelm
  
  Actually i really like seeing what people are drawing. It’s a weird tool to use.
http://monolithcreative.com thekinginyellow

can’t i just use trapcode form?
http://twitter.com/_KidIncredible Mickey The Body

http://new.weavesilk.com/?b19z
Logolepsy

Here’s my creation: http://new.weavesilk.com/?bdg0
- Brian Wanta
  
  Really like your flowers silk!
Brian Wanta

here is mine… ninja turtle..

http://new.weavesilk.com/?betq
F_C_King

A bit late to the party, but here’s my light warrior: http://new.weavesilk.com/?bj7m