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The DNS issues affecting our hosting company seem to have been resolved now and paragraphic.design is accessible again, sorry for the inconvenience.

The DNS servers of the hosting company used for paragraphic.design are currently down, apparently due to a large scale DDOS hacking attack. This has made the site unreachable the last couple of hours. The hosting company is working on it and the situation should hopefully be resolved eventually.

YouTube video by LostmindsVideo Procedural noise in Paragraphic

And here's a video about the new procedural #noise features in #paragraphic 1.3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-9E...

YouTube video by LostmindsVideo Using color gradients in Paragraphic

Here's a video with some more details about the new color gradient features added in the 1.3 #paragraphic update.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=slMO...

New #paragraphic 1.3 update released! Adding new color #gradient features and #procedural 2D #noise layers you can apply to your designs.

More details at:
paragraphic.design/blog/version...

#generative #parametric #design

New #paragraphic 1.2.5 update released, with some new features added to the Apply Function node and a couple bug fixes.

More at paragraphic.design/blog/version...

New maintenance update of #patternodes released, v 3.3.4 includes a couple of bug fixes and the long requested new option to display all node connection behind the node panels to make complex node setups a little less cluttered.

More info at lostminds.com/patternodes3

Just released a little maintenance update of my old password app DotPass (iOS and macOS). Generating retrievable good passwords with graphical patterns and plain text seed words.

If you're not familiar with it and use passwords, maybe you'll like it: www.lostminds.com/dotpass/

New #paragraphic 1.2.4 update released, adding a new Path repeater mode to add repetitions on a path control points, new List selection mode and more.

More info at paragraphic.design/blog/version...

#procedural #generative #godot

Well, in a sense you could see Paragraphic as what the ideas in Patternodes have evolved into. Paragraphic uses a very similar system for design and pattern generation, but presented in a different way. I think the main use case will be as a companion tool for complex/parametric vector designs.

Then I also want to put in some more apparent usecases like making custom vector halftones, gradients, data visualizations or maybe animations. So I can have some more specific things to motive designers to try something new (and hopefully then see what else they can do with the apps).

I think what you're describing is pretty much what I want to do with my apps: Getting designers new ways to think about patterns and design by introducing parametric/procedural features in a more accessible package. So that's pretty much the long term goal.

Applying the new pivot-relative transforms based on the distance to the pivot point in groups allow you to make some pretty cool explode/twist style effects to groups in #paragraphic.

No, I'm sorry, there's no automatic way to "complete" your bundle in this way. A couple of times I've made specific offers to existing users of the apps to get the others at a reduced price, but I don't want to spam people with e-mail offers too often. But maybe I should give that a try again.

The new #paragraphic 1.2.3 update also adds a more convenient way of inserting input nodes after an existing input node, so you no longer have to remove and re-add the existing input node.

New #paragraphic update 1.2.3 released. This time adding new ways to transform elements relative to group pivot points along with a couple of other fixes and improvements.

More details at paragraphic.design/blog/version...

Just a little #paragraphic tip: Holding shift makes sliders snap to even increments (also works on rotation handles).

The recent 1.2.1 #paragraphic update had an issue with bitmap exports, so now there's a new 1.2.2 version fixing that. See paragraphic.design/blog/version...

Video of playing around with the new Deep change mode added in 1.2. Try it out if you haven't!

#procedural #graphicdesign #madewithgodot

New #paragraphic update out now, v1.2.1 fixes a couple of issues in the 1.2 release and brings a number of UX improvements.

Update today, or find out more at:
paragraphic.design/blog/version...

#vectoraster 8.6.2 update released today, with a bit of maintenance, bug fixes and a couple of small improvements.

Read more and try it out at
www.lostminds.com/vectoraster8

Truchet Silhouette 2. 100x150mm plotted with AxiDraw and Colorverse ink. Designed in part with Paragraphic from @lostminds.bsky.social #plotterart #penplotter #truchettiles

#paragraphic v 1.2.0 has now been released. It's a big overhaul with fixes and improvements to many core systems and also adds new features like a dedicated halftone tool, deep changing in nested groups, layer locking and new selection options.

Full details: paragraphic.design/blog/version...

Sorry for the confusion, I meant that in Paragraphic (or Vectoraster/Patternodes) you can find a link to the user Discord channel in the Help menu. So look in the Help menu in Paragraphic

The example above is using a combination of the new Pivot Angle input option in the Apply Function node with the existing Pivot Distance to set the rotation of lines based on distance and angle from the center (pivot point) of this line group.

I've been working on a big 1.2 update overhauling a lot of internal systems in #paragraphic for a while now. It's not quite ready yet, but if you want to check it out there's a first beta version available to test in the user Discord channel. You can access it via the Help menu in the app.

#paragraphic 1.1.3 update released today. Just a maintenance update with a under the hood fixes and improvements this time.

More at paragraphic.design/blog/version...

For anyone new to #paragraphic there's now a new documentation post with an introduction to Repeaters, used to create repeating patterns of various from layers.

paragraphic.design/blog/basics-...

Too many elements in your patterns? No problem! New 1.1.2 #paragraphic update adds new methods for removing elements in groups along with some more improvements and fixes.

Read more and try it out at:
paragraphic.design/blog/version...

New 1.1.1 update of #paragraphic now available. Adding a number of UX-improvements and fixing a couple of bugs and regressions after the 1.1 update.

Full details at paragraphic.design/blog/version... and as a bonus there's also a new Truchet pattern sample project with a step-by step video.

YouTube video by LostmindsVideo Paragraphic 1.1 - Parametric graphic design

With all the updates and improvements added to #paragraphic since the initial 1.0 release the presentation video for it was getting a little outdated. So now there's a new updated version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtKF...