Harmony helps you doodle with the magic of Javascript

While we're on the subject of other web technologies that do things we're used to seeing from Flash, I thought I'd show you Harmony. It's a very neat little toy (or proof of concept, I guess) that is written in Javascript, and it uses a technique called "procedural drawing". It's a similar concept to that used on the Flame app (which I covered the other day), but here you get just a single color (black) and a whole bunch of really cool brushes.

You select a brush, start doodling with your mouse, and it gives you surprisingly realistic sketching effects, like "fur" or "shading". It's really fun to play with, and once you get the hang of it, it's actually controllable. It doesn't have undo functionality which makes it kind of similar to sketching with ink in real life. Still, I used it to draw that incredibly realistic ant-dog hybrid in the screenshot above, and I did it all by myself. Mommy would be so proud!

Tags: art, drawing, javascript, toys