[HN Gopher] Ertdfgcvb
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Ertdfgcvb
Author : mbostock
Score : 211 points
Date : 2023-10-28 03:00 UTC (2 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (ertdfgcvb.xyz)
| throwaway167 wrote:
| What's it about?
| Propelloni wrote:
| It's a procedural graphics generator showing some text/ascii
| art and transforming it on the fly. The source says it is a
| showcase made by a swiss company.
| rpickering wrote:
| It's by the very excellent artist Andreas Gysin (sort of a
| portfolio site), he works with ASCII and procedural art. Have
| a look at the site without the URL parameter on it:
| https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/
| colesantiago wrote:
| Be careful this site makes your computer fans scream and your
| devices run hot.
|
| I have no clue what this or why its needed is other than it
| (creatively?) drains my battery.
| cnity wrote:
| Ah, wait until you discover what video games do!
| colesantiago wrote:
| There is an expectation with video games.
|
| Users shouldn't expect a webpage or microsoft word to turn
| their computer into a helicopter.
| sph wrote:
| A lot of complaining for a website you will have visited 5
| seconds in your entire existence.
|
| Your computer is fine.
| curtisblaine wrote:
| Wait, can you turn your PC into an helicopter with a simple
| web page? Technology is amazing these days.
| b3lvedere wrote:
| It's a minor step since you already can download a car.
|
| Which you should not do of course :)
| curtisblaine wrote:
| I wouldn't!
| kroltan wrote:
| Yes, but it requires support to WebHelices which is on
| the experimentation phases. There is a shim using
| WebWings 5.0 but it only works on Chrome Canary, because
| foxes have legs instead.
| xorcist wrote:
| A user with that expectation would make sure to turn off
| javascript. Which probably should have been the default in
| web browsers, but that particular ship sailed long ago.
| EspressoGPT wrote:
| Better close the browser tab before your computer lifts
| off!
| sph wrote:
| Try closing the tab. Fixes it. Nothing to worry about, your
| battery is fine.
| tomcam wrote:
| I have a few fans but they seldom react with more than polite
| applause
| totetsu wrote:
| https://youtu.be/IOfs8U_3NQk?si=pGjtBf13F8_Bmy7A
| sznio wrote:
| makes my PC go from 40W to 50W.
|
| not that bad. Facebook is way worse.
| noufalibrahim wrote:
| Reminds me of the BB demo from aalib.
| _def wrote:
| Also reminds me of https://github.com/AngelJumbo/lavat
| fho wrote:
| I was feeling old when this was not the top comment :-)
| sandgiant wrote:
| Pretty cool!
|
| If you go to the index page it tells you what it is; a studio for
| design and code based in Switzerland.
|
| https://ertdfgcvb.xyz
| luispauloml wrote:
| Removing the "mode=screensaver" parameter from the URL:
|
| >ertdfgcvb
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| >Studio for design and code based in Lugano, Switzerland.
|
| >Specialized in procedural graphic design for screen and print;
| research and development, prototyping and implementation of
| interactive installations for exhibitions, stages and events.
|
| And here is a link with some of their art:
| https://foundation.app/@ertdfgcvb
|
| There are also some links in their homepage too. The I liked the
| most was: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz
| athenot wrote:
| Yes the play area has an interactive renderer and an editor,
| with lots of fun builtins that one can modify in real time.
| Very cool stuff!
|
| https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/sdf/balls
| anta40 wrote:
| Cool ASCI art-based design. Hmm... perhaps I'll take some ideas
| from it for my own website :D
| throwaway290 wrote:
| They apparently sell NFTs by the "crypto art" link, I wonder if
| that's what their business model actually is...
| jokethrowaway wrote:
| NFT art is great for doing the laundry
|
| Cool stuff regardless!
| theodric wrote:
| At first I was like "what is this gonna be, a Chinese company
| that sells unbranded electronics on Amazon?" But no, it's the
| Swiss.
| benj111 wrote:
| I was expecting it to be about some weird arm instruction.
|
| They like mnemonics like this.
| nerdbert wrote:
| Brings me back to all the time (and paper) I wasted in the 1970s
| writing programs to do abstract ASCII art on line printers.
| Watching those patterns made me feel like a child again!
| xrd wrote:
| Fun fact: if you have gstreamer installed, you can use a pipeline
| like aasink to output any video as ascii-art. For example:
|
| gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! aasink
| loeg wrote:
| Alternatively, 'mpv -vo caca'.
| https://mpv.io/manual/master/#video-output-drivers-caca
| mminer237 wrote:
| It used to be built into YouTube
| enigmarc wrote:
| If you like animated ASCII art then I'm sure you'll like this:
|
| https://www.gifcii.fun
| PyWoody wrote:
| https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/?mode=screensaver&color=true&word=ass
| athorax wrote:
| its beautiful
| lowbloodsugar wrote:
| Looks like ass to me.
| snarfed wrote:
| This has demo scene written all over it, in the best possible
| way.
| latchkey wrote:
| Discussions on similar submissions:
|
| _ASCII Play_ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010217 (July
| 30, 2021 -- 158 points, 20 comments)
| fb03 wrote:
| Too cool. Suddenly, I want to play nethack.
| queuebert wrote:
| The jackal bites. You die.
| SpaceL10n wrote:
| If you see a bunch of random ascii characters jumping around on
| the screen, try adjusting your Browser zoom to zoom out a bit. On
| my 4k screen with Windows providing 300% UI Scaling, I had to
| zoom Chrome out to 33% to see the wavy ascii text art.
| jedberg wrote:
| This domain name looks like someone pressed their ubikey to pick
| the name.
| NobodyNada wrote:
| I thought it looked like an x86 instruction mnemonic.
| mosburger wrote:
| Welcome, to Ertdfgcvb. This is Ertdfgcvb. The unattainable is
| UNKNOWN at Ertdfgcvb!
|
| /me wonders if anyone still knows this reference
| frob wrote:
| You can do anything at Ertdfgcvb!
| 3r3rni9 wrote:
| WELCOME TO Welcome to Ertdfgcvb!!!
| swayvil wrote:
| Lush and deep. It's got scifi power.
| bjackman wrote:
| This reminds me a little of the 404 page I made back in
| university (except it actually looks nice!)
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| http://yawn.io/404
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| Fun fact: it doesn't have a hard coded bitmap it renders in your
| system font onto a canvas and reads the pixels out and then
| converts to text.
| agys wrote:
| https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/404
| saltyoutburst wrote:
| It's great to see simple non-productized playfulness on the
| internet again.
|
| All the fun experiments on https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ remind me
| of Yugo Nakamura's now-defunct site http://yugop.com/ from back
| in the early 2000s.
|
| You can catch a little glimpse of his style with the bottom menu
| on
| https://web.archive.org/web/20040804050646/http://www.yugop....,
| but unfortunately the main body of the site (which was the best
| bit) doesn't work anymore because it was built with Flash.
|
| Some of his current work with https://tha.jp/ still has a great
| organic fun feel to it.
| ShadowBanThis01 wrote:
| Is what?
| mrb wrote:
| It saddens me that a browser consumes one and a half CPU cores to
| render a measly ~300x60 characters at 30 fps. Manipulating even
| just text in the DOM has so much overhead...
|
| That's on Linux with the latest stable Chrome on hardware less
| than 2 years old.
| CelticBard wrote:
| is the font iosevka? very cool
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