[HN Gopher] Silk - Interactive Generative Art (2011)
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Silk - Interactive Generative Art (2011)
Author : bluemars
Score : 82 points
Date : 2024-12-19 19:55 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (weavesilk.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (weavesilk.com)
| n2d4 wrote:
| For those on mobile, either go on a desktop or change your user
| agent so you get to use the website instead of an ad for a $3
| app.
|
| Interesting strategy to make a cool free website with the
| potential to go viral, and then act like it's behind a paywall
| for only some part of the population. Is this common?
| nkozyra wrote:
| The site itself works for me on mobile, though.
| SamBam wrote:
| I feel like this is unlikely to go viral -- these drawing apps
| have been around for over a decade.
| tyleo wrote:
| This one has been popular for a decade IMO. I remember
| playing with it in college. To my mind this is the viral one
| and there are some additional knock offs.
| crystal_revenge wrote:
| Software engineers who measure their income in multiples of
| median household income refusing to pay _$3_ for an app that
| has been entertaining people for over a decade now never ceases
| to surprise me.
|
| Maybe if you're considering changing your user agent to play
| with this, you're interested enough to spend $3. I did about 5
| years ago and still get enjoy that app.
|
| Personally I would love a world were a tiny trickle of the
| revenue software developer generate would trickle down to
| people making cool things for fun. Who knows, if that happened
| we might have more developers out there doing thing _other_
| than trying to sell ads.
| andai wrote:
| I refuse to use the web without adblock but most of the
| websites (or apps I use) are supported by ads. What do?
|
| A few have a "pay to remove ads" option, but most do not, and
| the ones that do, I use infrequently enough that I can't
| justify the price. There seems to be no good solution for
| paying for the "long tail" of content and services.
|
| Clay Shirky wrote an essay (I forget which one) on this
| subject like 20+ years ago, about how the main issue with
| micro transactions isn't even technical but it's the mental
| cost associated with each transaction.
|
| I think this could be solved if the system were "set it and
| forget it" -- you give it a weekly budget and it just
| distributes it among the sites you spend the most time on.
|
| Brave browser actually tried something very similar with
| their BAT (with their own ads instead of user provided
| funds), but it never caught on.
| dr_dshiv wrote:
| Yet we tip 15%+ -- so it is clearly cultural
| itishappy wrote:
| Looks like just apple devices. It runs fine for me on
| Chrome/Android and using a number of other agents I've tried.
| Amusingly, the "download on the app store" button with apple
| logo is present on the desktop version of the site as well.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| Many desktop apps on macOS are distributed via the App Store
| also.
| dcdgo wrote:
| Very nice!
| Netherland4TW wrote:
| This has been around since 2011 at least, I remember playing this
| in the apple store at the mall when I was bored waiting for my
| parents. Cool to see it resurface on HN!
| yurivish wrote:
| Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2089615
| kapitalx wrote:
| I totally remember that post. I think I spent 30 minutes just
| clicking around on it back then. Very nice.
| w_for_wumbo wrote:
| It'd be cool to see a 3D version of this that creates objects
| that you could print on a 3D printer. I think there's something
| so memorizing and satisfying with this type of symmetry.
| cush wrote:
| Holy scope creep
| andai wrote:
| It's like, one extra float? ;)
|
| For real though, I had an amazing realization in the shower
| one time that I could implement 3D rotation without learning
| linear algebra (or god forbid quaternions) by just doing
| three 2D rotations. A few hours later I had a rotating
| monkey!
| sleeplessworld wrote:
| Yes. You did do that. But the monkey wasn't too happy. And
| you have been banned from the zoo. So was it really the
| correct approach? ;-)
| tlarkworthy wrote:
| And then you discovered gimble lock, and to fix that you
| just need one extra float...
| kridsdale1 wrote:
| This is a Winamp visualizer.
| foxes wrote:
| Wow thats from a time when generative art meant programming to do
| something and not ai slop
| RohitLakh wrote:
| First time hearing about this and it's very memorizing. Lofi
| music in the background and you are set.
| xeckr wrote:
| I see people ITT saying "memorizing", do they all happen to mean
| "mesmerizing"?
| shric wrote:
| I see people ITT saying "all", do they both happen to mean
| "both"?
| xerox13ster wrote:
| Do you mean person ITT saying all? Whether it's two people or
| a dozen people, if there are people ITT, using the same word,
| then they're all using the word.
| leobg wrote:
| They ,,could of" meant that.
|
| :-)
| mycodendral wrote:
| I think I found this on stumbleupon when I was really stoned back
| in the day
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