[HN Gopher] Digging into PlantStudio, a Bit Late
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Digging into PlantStudio, a Bit Late
Author : bentsai
Score : 84 points
Date : 2024-10-29 18:49 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pketh.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (pketh.org)
| buescher wrote:
| The article covers everything I miss about desktop applications
| in a nutshell. Mostly that wild sense of discovering what you can
| do with a computer that you might not have tried to do at all or
| left to experts. But also not least that you can still run it
| decades later.
| bbo8 wrote:
| Just looking at this UI makes my eyes relax.
| rufus_foreman wrote:
| Runs fine for me with Wine.
| bbor wrote:
| Beautiful, thanks for sharing! Looks like I've found side project
| number 301: Three.js PlantStudio. Combined with the botany-
| focused image segmentation / mapping models they've got now, you
| could even work off people's real plants...
| AlienRobot wrote:
| I think I've this a screenshot of this on Tumblr! I was impressed
| it was real as well.
|
| I love that this silly app had a "Plant Wizard" with 10 steps and
| a progress bar with icons. That's really good UI design.
| greenavocado wrote:
| I desperately need more aesthetic Win32 applications in my life
| sleepydog wrote:
| > Because the last release of the app was in 2002, and it was for
| Windows 95/98/2000/NT4, we've got a little bit of work to do to
| get it running on macOS
|
| Much of today's software is going to be nothing more than a
| memory 22 years from now, after their authors run out of funding
| and they turn down the saas infrastructure that they shoehorned
| into it for that sweet, sweet recurring income. And more likely
| than not, we'll still be able to run this program from 2022, in
| 2046.
| type_enthusiast wrote:
| A really interesting read. From the discontinuation notice[1]
| that the article links to:
|
| > Perhaps it comes down to this: indirectly, our own personal
| benefit for writing PlantStudio software and our other projects
| includes all the other wonderful free stuff on the internet, and
| it would cost us trillions of dollars if we had to pay for the
| creation of all that diversity ourselves. We don't mind using
| guilt to effect change :-) but this time, with products under
| free license, it will be guilt to go do something positive in the
| world to pass on the gift, rather than a one-for-one exchange
| with us.
|
| That's a wonderful sentiment from the humans who put a lot of
| effort into building this software (and eventually decided to
| give it away).
|
| [1] https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/press.htm
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