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Created by an unknown artist from Tallinn strikes again. 879 pen strokes. Only on http://www.mandalagaba.com. We are currently working on ways to let users actually let us know who they. Hopefully we will get to know this person.

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Merry Mandala Christmas

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Cool mandala

All mandalas that are saved by users are sent to us in a daily digest. Most mandalas we find cool are posted to our Mandalagaba Instagram account and today I decided to start posting the very best of them here as well.

Found the one below by skimming through one of last week’s digests.

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Game of Thrones is coming... . Designed by the amazing Lara Laubert with Mandalagaba.com . (Music: "Firesong" by Kevin MacLeod's)

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New drawing styles made possible thanks to recursive drawing (and the talent of an amazing artist!)

Never had we thought our online mandala maker could generate the following pieces of mandala magic :

The creator of these designs is Lara Laubert, an amazing artist and regular user of Mandalagaba.

Please check out her work here:

Lara’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laralaubert

Lara’s Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.fr/Lara_Laubert

Lara used one of Mandalagaba’s new features which is recursive drawing to create those awesome effects.

Now that the website has been separated into multiple facets (you can read the blog post Complete Mandalagaba overhaul for more information on this), you can find the recursive drawing features here:

https://plant.mandalagaba.com: This is a fun little guided drawing experience we published to let users play around with recursive drawing

https://pro.mandalagaba.com : This Pro version of Mandalagaba allows users to generate mandalas with every feature we have to offer. It is with this facet that Lara produces her amazing work.

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Created with https://pro.mandalagaba.com/ by @laralaubert (https://www.instagram.com/laralaubert).  Amazing work as usual. Check out her profile. She is extremely talented! ⠀ In this design, Lara played around brilliantly with Mandalagaba's new recursive drawing feature.⠀

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Humongous printed Mandalagaba mandalas!

A very cool and insightful person by the name of Amy Walker made some awesome mandalas with Mandalagaba and printed them out on huge sheets of papers for people to colorfy them!

This happened during the annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival (http://stillmoon.org/) las week-end.

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Coloring our mandalas is something we are working on. We are going to let users decide whether they let other users color the mandalas they create on the platform. This concept will make much more sense when we will be adding user accounts and user galleries.

Another really cool aspect of this initiative is the collaboration side of it. Mandalagaba is built on a hefty network engine allowing collaborations between users, but for various reasons, most of whom are related to us not communicating enough about it, this features is unknown or misunderstood by 90% of our users.

Multiple facets of Mandalagaba either need to go through some fine-tuning or some simplifications to make our network engine more user friendly, and that is also something we are working.

In any case, we really appreciate that Amy did the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival.

More about Amy Walker and her Make Mobile workshops can be found on the Make Mobile website. Check it out at http://www.makemobile.ca !

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The Power of One Stroke and the Reddit hug

We posted the GIF below on Reddit yesterday and it blew up. Here I have to post it as a video because SquareSpace doesn't accept images bigger than 20 megs, but originally its a GIF.

By blew up I mean it took off. Our stats skyrocketed. Just by posting a simple GIF with a catchy title on a popular website where people share stuff.

This isn't the first time that this happens. Every now and then Mandalagaba finds itself on Reddit and we try to make the most out of the attention. The user feedback is invaluable, we learn a few lessons about server load balancing and new users try their hands and bring new styles we've never seen before.

We noticed that GIFs worked really well for the type of content we publish. They are very popular on most sharing-driven environments. Have a cool simple video that you don't even need to play and you got yourself one nifty dopamine generating machine.