ZenPaint, a pixel-perfect MacPaint recreation for the browser

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I've been recreating the original MacPaint in the browser on and off for a few years. It's still alpha quality, but I'm finally ready to share it more widely.The goal was pixel-perfect accuracy, so I spent a lot of time with Atkinson's original QuickDraw source code, emulators, and my iBook G3 to get details like font rendering and the shape tools exactly right.Some technical notes:- Font rendering was surprisingly tricky; understanding the original pipeline's quirks took lots of experimentation, and avoiding canvas smoothing/aliasing required careful handling.- Written declaratively with React; performance is kept reasonable with a buffer pool and copy-on-write semantics. - You can share li

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