Most of yesterday was spent writing this year's SoCoder Xmas Newsletter.

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As with most previous years, I've done it all in those stupid little 4 line verses that everybody hates so much.
Rhyming off the entire newsletter gives me an extra little creative outlet for one day of the year.
I certainly wouldn't do it every week, and if I'm honest, the daily poetry here gives me more than enough to think about each day.
Still, it's nice to be able to rhyme out an entire newsletter.

You can Read the Newsletter here.

Meanwhile...

Tried and tried and tried again, to find a decent way to clear out bits of the canvas..
The PixelPainter tool relies on a ton of randomness, and alpha transparency when drawing stroke upon stroke, atop each other.
The difficulty is when there's actual alpha transparency (eg a transparent background) in the original image. It can't quite figure out what it's supposed to be doing.

What I'd love to be able to do is to "add" transparency (or rather, remove pixels) in a stroke, but every method I've tried seems to slow the engine to a crawl.
I'll spend another couple of hours trying to do that, today, but if I can't get it working, I'll have to abandon the next step of the PixelPainter.
Grrr.

As such, for the third day in a row, there's been no uploaded update to PixelPainter Tool, even though I've coded a ton.. ... And then promptly deleted a ton, too!

Bah, humbug!