[mojosam]

Not really, because it lacks core features that made MacPaint amazing and Atkinson a genius, being able to: draw rectangles, ovals, and rounded rechts with patterned fills in real time; draw filled polys and arbitrary regions; lasso arbitrary regions and move, copy, or resize them; etc.

This is a pretty basic paint program in a browser, which is great, but it’s a long way from what MacPaint could do 35+ years ago.

[jart]

Welcome to Hacker News. This project was written by a fellow HN user for fun. I think it's pretty clear, based on the quality we've seen so far, that the author is capable of making it do all those things. I like to judge projects and startups by envisioning their completed state, rather than worrying about details of how they exist today. I think DitherPaint is a cool project and worth encouraging.

[tangentstorm]

Wait, do you actually know the author? I only ask because he's a good friend of mine, and another friend was just showing me your APE code. Small world. :)

[jart]

Not to my knowledge. I just saw a random comment in a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27410662 I noticed he had submitted it as a link that no one upvoted. I thought the work merited further attention, so I posted this link.