Mandala Studio

rainbowpopcornfactory.com/apps/mandala

Live

Generate, colour in and export mandalas, tilings and fractals.

Mandala Studio is a studio that runs entirely in the browser for generating, colouring and exporting mandalas. It needs no backend, no build tools and no dependencies. You generate a pattern, colour it in with a click and download the result as an image or vector graphic.

Screenshot of rainbowpopcornfactory.com/apps/mandala

Idea & philosophy

The idea is a digital colouring book that fills itself: the studio produces symmetrical structures, and you decide on the colours. When you colour a cell, not only the clicked area changes but the whole group of areas that are rotated copies of each other. That keeps the symmetry intact, so even a few clicks give a coherent picture. Besides classic radial mandalas there are three more pattern types: surface-filling tilings such as honeycomb, tumbling blocks, brick bond or seigaiha waves, self-similar fractals such as the Sierpinski triangle, the Koch snowflake or the Pythagoras tree, and polygonal forms such as rosettes, star wreaths and spiral arms. The controls adapt to the chosen pattern type. A seed field makes results reproducible, and “Vary” alters them slightly. The palettes range from pastel and pop art to metallic and nods to works such as Starry Night, Klimt, ukiyo-e or Monet. That way the project connects geometry with art history.

Contents & features

  • Four pattern types: mandala (radial), tiling/parquet, fractal and polygon/geometry
  • Six style presets for mandalas: random, floral, geometric, kaleidoscope, minimal and ornament
  • Sliders for symmetry (3 to 24 sectors), rings, complexity and roundness
  • Regenerate, vary and direct seed input for reproducible results
  • Around 52 curated colour palettes in 12 families, including pastel, pop art, metallic and art palettes
  • Colouring automatically with a palette rhythm or manually by click with symmetric co-colouring, an eraser and a custom colour picker
  • Adjustable line width, line colour and background colour
  • Text mask: the text shows the pattern or the background shows the pattern
  • Export as PNG (2000×2000) or SVG, plus fullscreen mode; on phones the control panel works as a drawer

Status

The app is embedded directly on this site and runs entirely in the browser. No data is transmitted.

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