Mecmua: Symmetry Drawing Pad

Mecmua is a traditional and modern art studio: draw Turkish ebru marbling, Ottoman and Arabic hat calligraphy, and kaleidoscope symmetry side by side, all rendered in real time on the GPU.

Every stroke is folded through real symmetry — kaleidoscope rosettes, frieze bands and all 17 wallpaper groups, the same lattices behind Islamic illumination and arabesque ornament — while the ink keeps flowing like paint on water.

Mecmua is not a stamp brush. The symmetry lives inside the renderer: a single coordinate fold applied before one drop of ink is ever evaluated. That is why 64 mirrors run as fast as 2, and why a drawing stays resolution independent — an 8K export is re-rendered from your strokes, never upscaled.

EBRU MARBLING

• Drop, comb, wave, vortex and stylus tools that move a real simulated ink surface, the way paper is marbled on water

• Ready-made ebru pattern starting states

• Every fold and stir is undoable, layer by layer

HAT — OTTOMAN & ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY

• Hundreds of calligraphy brushes modeled on real hands, across Thuluth, Diwani, Ruq'ah and diacritic-marked (tashkeel) styles, with a dedicated reed-pen (qasab) set

• Decorative and mixed calligraphic sets for signatures and compositions

• Full pressure and tilt control for authentic reed-pen weight

DRAW IN SYMMETRY

• Rosettes from 2 to 64 mirrors, with or without reflection

• All 7 frieze groups for ribbons and borders

• All 17 wallpaper groups: square, hexagonal, rhombic and rectangular lattices — the geometry behind tezhip and arabesque pattern work

• Change the group at any time. Your existing artwork re-folds into the new symmetry, and the change is undoable

• Mirror axes and the repeating tile drawn as a guide overlay you can hide

MODERN PAINTING

• Pen, brush, marker, airbrush, neon and calligraphy tools, plus shape tools for line, circle, polygon and star

• Layers, blend modes and unlimited undo

• Adjustments: curves, gradient maps, color balance

• Smudge, clone and eraser tools

APPLE PENCIL PRO

• Barrel roll turns the mirror axis

• Squeeze opens the palette

• Haptics confirm every symmetry change

• Pressure and tilt drive the ink

EXPORT

• PNG up to 8K, with transparent layers

• A looping video of the drawing forming itself

• Live Photo and wallpaper sizes for iPhone and iPad

Every tool, every brush, every export size and all 17 wallpaper groups — free, nothing to unlock.

Built for iPad and iPhone, drawn on the GPU with Metal.