Mecmua: Traditional Art Studio

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 modelled 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, colour 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. Privacy Policy: https://apps.cihat.dev/mecmua/privacy-policy/ Built for iPad and iPhone, drawn on the GPU with Metal.