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Looks great and I really enjoyed the interactivity. One thing that would be interesting would be a "map at one of the lower corners" that showed the whole field. Just like the world map on a video game where you can see where you are. Also, a bigger eraser would be helpful. :)

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The field is infinite; it expands as you move through it. Of course there could be a mini-map showing a fixed area surrounding the viewport. This would add technical complexity, requiring the client to save an additional scaled down copy of each drawing to the db, but it's possible.

You can change the size of the eraser/brush with the palette that appears when you click the color rectangle. Perhaps this isn't obvious. Or did you mean that the maximum brush size isn't big enough?

Didn't see that there was a way to change the size of the eraser brush so I see that you did have it. I just used the brush that was there, so didn't get to see how big the maximum brush size really is.

Understood about the scaled down version to the db. I was curious as I was playing around with the infinite field I ran into some things that I didn't expect to be drawn (basically drawings of nudes) that were far off to the left of what loaded up. With these types of thing I get lost easily, so a map would have helped me. :)

Thanks!

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