Beautiful Dorena is an experiment. More accurately, it is a bunch of experiments. I wanted to create a framework that would allow me to try out ideas as they occurred to me. A “paint program” seemed to offer the most flexible option. This was especially viable because I have had experience doing this, having created the original Kid Pix program. I felt that this was also a good approach because it would let the user walk away with either an image file or a printout. To be clear, it is not intended to be, a full-service, full-featured program. It is quite quirky and basically does what I found interesting to make it do.
