I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)
I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)
I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front) v1, 2026-07-09 《我没有杀死斯坦利·利伯：如何绘画（基于 9front）》v1，2026-07-09
The penultimate paper on paint(1) and the 9front art machine. 这是关于 paint(1) 和 9front 艺术机器的倒数第二篇论文。
0 Questions. 1 How to draw 1.1 The Machine 1.1.1 A Computer 1.1.2 Two in One 1.2 The Input 1.2.1 Mouse 1.2.2 Finger 1.2.3 Tablet 1.2.4 Keyboard 1.2.5 Drawterm / VNC 1.3 The Medium 2 paint(1) 2.1 Getting Startled 2.1.1 Pen and Mouse 2.1.2 What paint(1) cannot do for you 2.1.3 paint(1) Keys 2.2 Canvas 2.2.1 Treat the initial window size of paint(1) as your canvas 2.3 Tools 2.3.1 Colors 2.3.2 Brush 2.3.3 Fill 2.3.4 Eraser 2.3.5 Straight Line 2.3.6 Circle 2.3.7 Pan 2.3.8 Zoom 2.3.9 Undo 2.3.10 Reset 2.4 Faux Layers 3 Image Operations 3.1 page(1) 3.1.1 Viewport 3.2 vcrop(1), crop(1) 3.3 resize(1) 3.4 rotate(1) 3.5 Specific Canvas Size 3.5.1 Crop Mathematics 3.5.2 Extra Margin 3.5.3 Extra Margin 3.6 Faux Layers: Slight Return 3.7 Tracers Work Both Ways 3.8 Palettes 4 Get it out! 4.1 Conversion 4.2 Stop 9front 5 EOF 5.1 Special Thanks 5.2 Resources 0 问题。1 如何绘画 1.1 机器 1.1.1 计算机 1.1.2 二合一设备 1.2 输入方式 1.2.1 鼠标 1.2.2 手指 1.2.3 数位板 1.2.4 键盘 1.2.5 Drawterm / VNC 1.3 媒介 2 paint(1) 2.1 惊吓入门 2.1.1 笔与鼠标 2.1.2 paint(1) 做不到的事 2.1.3 paint(1) 按键 2.2 画布 2.2.1 将 paint(1) 的初始窗口大小视为画布 2.3 工具 2.3.1 颜色 2.3.2 画笔 2.3.3 填充 2.3.4 橡皮擦 2.3.5 直线 2.3.6 圆形 2.3.7 平移 2.3.8 缩放 2.3.9 撤销 2.3.10 重置 2.4 伪图层 3 图像操作 3.1 page(1) 3.1.1 视口 3.2 vcrop(1), crop(1) 3.3 resize(1) 3.4 rotate(1) 3.5 特定画布尺寸 3.5.1 裁剪数学 3.5.2 额外边距 3.5.3 额外边距 3.6 伪图层：轻微回归 3.7 追踪器双向工作 3.8 调色板 4 导出！ 4.1 转换 4.2 停止 9front 5 EOF 5.1 特别鸣谢 5.2 资源
0 Questions. What is How to draw? This is a document that will teach you how to be just like me, drawing on computers running an operating system you know nothing about. 0 问题。什么是“如何绘画”？这是一份文档，它将教你如何变得像我一样，在运行着你一无所知的操作系统的计算机上进行绘画。
Who might How to draw appeal to? perverts robots witches 谁可能会对“如何绘画”感兴趣？变态、机器人、女巫。
Who will How to draw not appeal to? artists atheists iconoclasts 谁不会对“如何绘画”感兴趣？艺术家、无神论者、反传统者。
Why has How to draw been submitted to OCC 2026? My 9front art machine is an old computer. It was used to create this document and most of the visual attachments. 为什么“如何绘画”被提交给 OCC 2026？我的 9front 艺术机器是一台旧电脑。它被用来创建这份文档以及大部分视觉附件。
What’s the tl;dr version of How to draw? Click and drag. “如何绘画”的简短总结是什么？点击并拖动。
How to get started with 9front? Go here Read the book Before you scroll any further, it is strongly recommended that you first read Free Carrots #8: How to draw to familiarize yourself with the history and philosophy of drawing, and hardware and software options you might want to explore. With that out of the way, this is: 如何开始使用 9front？去这里阅读书籍。在继续向下滚动之前，强烈建议你先阅读《Free Carrots #8: How to draw》，以熟悉绘画的历史和哲学，以及你可能想要探索的硬件和软件选项。处理完这些之后，现在开始：
1 How to draw To draw you need two things. Something to draw with and something to draw on. The natural inclination might be to use a real device that you can touch with a pen and produce lines, but there are worse and less convenient ways to draw with 9front that you might prefer. While this document is written with a computer one can draw on in mind, most of it is applicable to any of the input methods below. Maybe you can think of new ones. 1 如何绘画。要绘画，你需要两样东西：用来画画的工具和用来画画的载体。人们的自然倾向可能是使用一种真实的设备，可以用笔触碰并产生线条，但使用 9front 绘画还有更糟糕、更不方便的方法，或许你反而会喜欢。虽然本文档是针对可以在上面绘画的计算机编写的，但其中大部分内容适用于以下任何输入方法。也许你能想到新的方法。
1.1 The Machine 1.1.1 A Computer If you don’t care about drawing on screens, you can learn How to draw on any computer running 9front. 1.1 机器 1.1.1 计算机。如果你不在乎在屏幕上绘画，你可以在任何运行 9front 的计算机上学习“如何绘画”。
1.1.2 Two in One All in one. Canvas and brush - perhaps the ideal choice for those who like to draw on paper. Wacomized laptops with pens. Crack the screen open and draw on it. Here is a list of devices proven to work well for the purposes of How to draw: ThinkPad X41t, Thinkpad X60t, X61t, ThinkPad X380 Yoga, ThinkPad X1 Yoga 3rd Gen, ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga. There’s probably a million other 2in1 9front art machines that work well, you just have to find them, and preferably tell someone you did. 1.1.2 二合一设备。一体化。画布和画笔——对于那些喜欢在纸上绘画的人来说，这可能是理想的选择。带有触控笔的 Wacom 化笔记本电脑。打开屏幕，在上面绘画。以下是已被证明非常适合“如何绘画”用途的设备列表：ThinkPad X41t、Thinkpad X60t、X61t、ThinkPad X380 Yoga、ThinkPad X1 Yoga 第三代、ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga。可能还有一百万种运行良好的二合一 9front 艺术机器，你只需要找到它们，最好告诉别人你找到了。
1.2 The Input 1.2.1 Mouse Mouse drawing is a very old technique. Favored for its compatibility with any computer that has a mouse. 1.2 输入方式 1.2.1 鼠标。鼠标绘画是一种非常古老的技术。因为它与任何带有鼠标的计算机兼容而受到青睐。
1.2.2 Finger Touching the screen emulates left mouse clicks. There’s no way to emulate any other, so a mouse needs to be kept nearby. Some people’s entire gimmick depends on the fact that they finger paint their art. If you have a device that allows it, you can finger paint with 9front. 1.2.2 手指。触摸屏幕模拟鼠标左键点击。没有办法模拟其他按键，所以需要随身携带鼠标。有些人的全部噱头都依赖于他们用手指绘画这一事实。如果你有允许这样做的设备，你就可以用 9front 进行手指绘画。
1.2.3 Tablet External tablets with screens will (probably) not work with 9front. External tablets without screens might work. Similarly to 2in1 drawing computers, external tablet pens with buttons can potentially simulate all three mouse clicks. I’ve seen it. Of the three tablets that I personally tried, the one to recommend is GAOMON S620. Bought specifically for 9front, I ended up drawing the bulk of early Techno-Mage with it in OpenBSD. It still works great in 9front. Plug n play. Not so much in OpenBSD anymore. The other two: Acts like a touchpad (relative positioning) Wacom CTL-672 Does not work Wacom CTL-490. Some more information on tablets: [fqa] 3.2.4 - Tablet Digitizers 1.2.3 数位板。带屏幕的外接数位板（可能）无法在 9front 上工作。不带屏幕的外接数位板可能可以。与二合一绘画电脑类似，带有按钮的外接数位板笔有可能模拟所有三个鼠标点击。我见过。在我个人尝试的三款数位板中，推荐的是 GAOMON S620。它是专门为 9front 购买的，我最终在 OpenBSD 中用它绘制了大部分早期的 Techno-Mage。它在 9front 中仍然运行良好。即插即用。在 OpenBSD 中就不太行了。另外两款：表现得像触摸板（相对定位）Wacom CTL-672；无法工作 Wacom CTL-490。关于数位板的更多信息：[fqa] 3.2.4 - Tablet Digitizers。
1.2.4 Keyboard You can’t really draw with a keyboard (though you can write pictures), but you can’t get away without using it either. For tablet computers, inaccessible physical keyboards, and other obscure setups, there is bitsy/keyboard, an on-screen keyboard. It has to be started through rio with the -k option: % rio -k ‘bitsy/keyboard -n’ 1.2.4 键盘。你不能真正用键盘绘画（尽管你可以写出图片），但你也离不开它。对于平板电脑、无法访问的物理键盘和其他晦涩的设置，有一个屏幕键盘 bitsy/keyboard。它必须通过带有 -k 选项的 rio 启动：% rio -k ‘bitsy/keyboard -n’
1.2.5 Drawterm / vnc Drawterm into a distant and/or virtual 9front computer, use any of the aforementioned methods and devices, and a million more. You’ll probably have a bad time, but the size of your tool box will grow drastically. You could finger paint with 9front from your Android telephone, mouse draw from any Linux and MacOS, use all the input devices that don’t work with 9front from Windows,… Any combination of these will impress your hypothetical employer. drawterm.9front.org 1.2.5 Drawterm / vnc。通过 Drawterm 连接到远程和/或虚拟的 9front 计算机，使用上述任何方法和设备，以及其他一百万种方法。你可能会有糟糕的体验，但你的工具箱规模将大幅增长。你可以通过安卓手机在 9front 上进行手指绘画，从任何 Linux 和 MacOS 上进行鼠标绘画，使用所有在 9front 中无法工作的 Windows 输入设备……这些组合中的任何一种都会给你的假想雇主留下深刻印象。drawterm.9front.org
1.3 The Medium All image operations, drawing, cropping,… are performed on files in 9front’s internal image(6) format. This is the default for everything this document works with. For producing pictures this is irrelevant and you never have to think about it. It is only after you want to share your creation with the wider world that you will want to convert it to a different format. I usually name my 9front picture files file.pic. You can call them whatever you want. 1.3 媒介。所有的图像操作、绘画、裁剪等，都是在 9front 内部 image(6) 格式的文件上执行的。这是本文档所涉及的所有内容的默认格式。对于制作图片来说，这无关紧要，你永远不需要考虑它。只有当你想要与更广阔的世界分享你的创作时，你才需要将其转换为其他格式。我通常将我的 9front 图片文件命名为 file.pic。你可以随意命名。
2 paint(1) While there is a fairly large selection of drawing software for 9front, this document concerns itself with paint(1) only, the original 9front drawing program. Not many know where it came from. Some say it manifested itself out of nowhere. Some blame cinap. Whatever the myth of origin, today paint(1) is known as one of the 7 princes of hell. 2 paint(1)。虽然 9front 有相当多的绘图软件选择，但本文档仅关注 paint(1)，即最初的 9front 绘图程序。没多少人知道它来自哪里。有人说它是凭空出现的。有人责怪 cinap。无论起源的神话是什么，今天 paint(1) 被称为地狱七君主之一。
2.1 Getting Startled Forget what you know about digital art. Forget what you know about drawing. As you read on, you will realize that working with paint(1) is much closer to drawing with physical paper, ink, and colors than any other digital drawing program. It’s like analog art, but not really. Like with everything, it i 2.1 惊吓入门。忘记你所知道的数字艺术。忘记你所知道的绘画。随着阅读的深入，你会意识到使用 paint(1) 工作比任何其他数字绘图程序都更接近于用真实的纸、墨水和颜色绘画。它就像模拟艺术，但又不完全是。像所有事情一样，它……