[HN Gopher] Virtual Graph Paper
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       Virtual Graph Paper
        
       Author : gscott
       Score  : 89 points
       Date   : 2022-05-26 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (virtual-graph-paper.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (virtual-graph-paper.com)
        
       | bzxcvbn wrote:
       | Neat! Does it have any compelling features over e.g. geogebra, or
       | inkscape? It looks very minimalistic.
        
         | themodelplumber wrote:
         | > Neat! Does it have any compelling features over e.g.
         | geogebra, or inkscape?
         | 
         | minimalistic, you called it
        
       | samwillis wrote:
       | This is really nice, love a grid (always user grid (paper)
       | notebooks), I hadn't seen this one before.
       | 
       | I also love https://www.tldraw.com, worth following its creator
       | on Twitter (https://twitter.com/steveruizok). He posts loads of
       | interesting thoughts and insights into designing this sort of
       | app.
        
         | rschachte wrote:
         | Neat thanks! I love this
        
       | howmayiannoyyou wrote:
       | Been using whatboard.app for things like this and has the ability
       | to import/embed graphs.
        
       | adhesive_wombat wrote:
       | Apparently more useable than Draw.io, which is inflicted on me on
       | a semi-regular basis.
        
       | bityard wrote:
       | Once you save a drawing as an SVG, there's no way to load it back
       | in without creating an account, is that correct?
        
         | coda_ wrote:
         | using the share button creates a link to a copy of the drawing
         | that can be edited it looks like
        
       | selecsosi wrote:
       | My team has been using this for collaborative / ephemeral
       | whiteboarding sessions https://excalidraw.com/. This tool looks
       | simple but well built, and in the same vein (hotkey driven).
        
       | breckinloggins wrote:
       | I like that this works reasonably well on mobile.
       | 
       | I certainly wouldn't use it that way most of the time but I
       | waswaiting in line somewhere and was able to create a doodle with
       | just one finger.
        
       | ortusdux wrote:
       | Very nice. If you draw a simple hourglass and color fill one
       | triangle, both are filled. Is this the intended behavior?
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | If you draw it as a single connected path, that's the normal
         | polygon fill behavior.
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | An isometric version would be neat, like this:
       | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Isometri...
        
         | themodelplumber wrote:
         | I see both dots and grid for isometric drawing, in Setup
        
           | layer8 wrote:
           | Ooh, I missed that. Still, it would be nice if it had
           | subdivisions like the square grid.
        
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