The author describes building a digital painting tool that uses edge-aware Gaussian brush strokes to transform images into painterly artwork. Extending ideas from a previous edge-aware pixelation project, the tool derives stroke placement, size, and direction from image edges, rendered with translucent overlapping Gaussians. The project also served as a testbed for the Jolt engine in a non-trivial application.
Background
The author previously released an edge-aware pixelation tool and is now extending similar concepts into a full interactive digital painting application. Jolt, primarily known as a physics engine, is being used here for its spatial and collision utilities in a creative coding context.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Aug 5, 2026 at 09:33 PM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10