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🧪 Artistic Visual Arts

Interactive watercolor-painting simulator: brush wet pigment onto a virtual paper and watch it diffuse, granulate, and dry through a real shallow-water fluid + pigment-transport model — paint blooms, backruns and pigment separation like real gouache.

Generative Art & Algorithmic Patterns2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted

This simulation models the physical process behind real watercolor painting rather than just drawing a static stroke: a thin water film governed by shallow-water flow carries suspended pigment across a virtual paper, spreading, blooming, and settling as it dries. Painting with a wetter brush or a higher water load produces the soft diffused edges and blooms characteristic of wet-on-wet technique, while a drier brush leaves crisp, controlled marks. Live readouts track total water and pigment mass on the paper as the fluid-and-diffusion simulation keeps running in the background, mirroring how real wet media continues to move and settle after the brush lifts.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation offers an interactive exploration of various visual arts techniques. Users can experiment with different mediums and styles to create their own digital artwork.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install