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by b1temy 99 days ago
Very cool!

I wonder if someone more creative than me would be able to push this to do things it was not designed to do. I recently found a video where someone exploited some properties of certain transcript file formats to be able to make a primitive simple drawing app with Youtube's video player's closed captions.[0]

Since a brush's code can see the state of the canvas and draw on it, perhaps there can be a brush that does the opposite here, and instead renders a simple "video" when you hold down the mouse? Or even a simple game, like Tic-Tac-Toe.

I understand that obviously isn't the purpose of the brush programs, but I think it is an interesting challenge, just for fun.

[0] The video I am thinking of is by a channel named Firama, but they did not explain how they accomplished it. Another channel, SWEet, made their own attempt, which wasn't as full-featured as the original, but they did document how they did it.

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Do you have a link to the youtube channel? "SWEet" isn't really searchable
The video in question:-

https://youtu.be/_mL1uaOgGvc

Although the channel is indeed called SWEet, I should have given the YouTube channel handle, SWEetOverflows.