[HN Gopher] Sketch Machine
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Sketch Machine
Author : bpierre
Score : 175 points
Date : 2021-10-13 12:49 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (sketchmachine.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (sketchmachine.net)
| steve_adams_86 wrote:
| My kid is going to love this. It isn't often you find something
| like this that immediately makes you dig in and play. Thanks for
| sharing!
| tptacek wrote:
| This is much cooler at 64 pixel resolution; it had a sort of
| shadebob thing going for it.
| astroalex wrote:
| This was created by Casey Reas, who also is one of the original
| creators of the programming language & IDE called Processing
| (https://processing.org/).
|
| I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN
| community, but in the media arts and education space, Processing
| is pretty famous.
|
| I met Casey at a festival once and he was a remarkably kind and
| interested person. I think his playful approach to technology
| shines through in projects like the sketch machine.
| outworlder wrote:
| > I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN
| community, but in the media arts and education space,
| Processing is pretty famous.
|
| Probably relatively well known due to its usage in some Arduino
| projects.
| crumpled wrote:
| The Arduino IDE was originally based on the Processing IDE,
| so that's the main connection there.
|
| I rarely, if ever, see a Processing/Arduino project. I do a
| lot with Arduinos, including interactive art, but maybe I'm
| hanging with the wrong crowd.
| speg wrote:
| Gosh, I feel slow.
|
| Everyone is commenting how neat this is and all I got is some
| dots that follow my line? Then I tried to clear all frames and
| now it just draws a fat blobby line that doesn't move anymore?
| dcuthbertson wrote:
| Perhaps you were drawing with the "Select All" checkbox
| checked. I got stuck with no animation until I clicked "Clear
| Frames" with "Select All" checked and then unchecked it before
| drawing again. It's kind of a clunky UI, but the animation is
| fun
| PeterBarrett wrote:
| A fun program for the sake of fun, so nice to see!
| john-tells-all wrote:
| Awesome, so much fun! My wife's curious about animation but busy,
| I'll send this to her.
| ProfAesop wrote:
| I love Casey.
| bound008 wrote:
| That was fun! Thanks for sharing!
| daveslash wrote:
| Yeah.... that was a surprising amount of joy to play around
| with for quite a while!
| dmje wrote:
| Love it. Fun, great interface, love the Gif export. Ace :-)
| kderbyma wrote:
| it's needs a drum machine attachment
| Folcon wrote:
| Ingenious, simple idea executed really well.
| kylestewart wrote:
| I bet this influenced the idea behind Looom. Fun app if you have
| an iPad. https://iorama.studio/
| granularity wrote:
| Agreed, and I second the Looom recommendation.
| riidom wrote:
| That's a great tool for some frame-to-frame animation training,
| it's so very friction-less! Here's my little "I dont care"-doodle
| :D https://media.giphy.com/media/fRECiVW4vyGMBkv6X6/giphy.gif
| amazing_stories wrote:
| Uh oh, I'm going to be wasting a lot of time with this...
| nickcw wrote:
| I just figured out you can draw on it while it is animating the
| frames - that is really fun! (And perhaps the point, but only
| just figured it out!)
|
| https://giphy.com/gifs/sketchmachine-6WvwbFin0jmeX8lnRU
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