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(Developer of Primitive here.) Love seeing people use my software in different ways! If this looks interesting to you, try it out: https://primitive.lol/ http

(Developer of Primitive here.) Love seeing people use my software in different ways! If this looks interesting to you, try it out: https://primitive.lol/ https://primitive.lol/ https://github.com/fogleman/primitive https://github.com/fogleman/primitive Also, I made a Twitter bot that posts samples every 30 minutes based on "interesting" Flickr photos using randomized Primitive settings: https://twitter.com/PrimitivePic https://twitter.com/PrimitivePic

dmitriid 9y ago
Your twitter bot sometimes produces images that look like unintentional art. Awesome job!
- fogleman 9y ago
  Well, that's the idea!
  - jrowley 9y ago
    Honestly your twitter bot (and some of the other art bots) may be the best content on twitter. I thought it was cool that I could interact with your bot. Great work!
baddox 9y ago
This looks great! I would definitely pay the $10 for an iOS version. I can see myself playing around with this on an iPad Pro for hours, especially with drawing mode.
- xster 9y ago
  Don't really know how it works, though I wonder if some of the filters in Prisma are implemented in similar ways.
quakeguy 9y ago
Well, this is awesome!
itronitron 9y ago
very cool, so much better than seeing images constructed from cat and dog faces
CamperBob2 9y ago
Very cool. Anything like this available for Windows?
- Adamantcheese 9y ago
  You can download Golang and run it yourself from the windows command line. To make it easy to use, open the command window from the location your "go get" downloads to (usually in your documents there's a folder called "go"), then instead of using "primitive <options>", use "go run main.go <options>. Works like a charm.
santaclaus 9y ago
Aren't you the guy who writes all the graphics stuff in Go too? How do you find time to do all this???
- fogleman 9y ago
  What do you do with all of your time? :)
  - artificial 9y ago
    Why Hacker News of course! Thanks for sharing.
erikig 9y ago
I love this, for budding visual artists it is a great way to see how basic shapes and seemingly simple colors come together to create evocative images.
- fogleman 9y ago
  Thanks - this is my favorite aspect of it as well!
contingencies 9y ago
Cool software, thanks again, I used it for https://github.com/globalcitizen/svglover https://github.com/globalcitizen/svglover and https://github.com/globalcitizen/zomia https://github.com/globalcitizen/zomia
piyush_soni 9y ago
Slightly off topic, but for the first time I've seen a "lol" domain :). Did you not have any apprehensions using it, like people might not take the product seriously?
- fogleman 9y ago
  Kinda, but I figured it would stand out so I went for it.
nzjrs 9y ago
Awesome! Are you aware of ports to any other language?
- ondras 9y ago
  I have a JS "port" (not a 1:1 reimpl): https://github.com/ondras/primitive.js https://github.com/ondras/primitive.js
  - homero 9y ago
    That's incredible
traverseda 9y ago
Hey, you're that guy who did "minecraft in 500 lines of python".
Adamantcheese 9y ago
I went ahead and used it yesterday to change the background image of my site to save a couple (426kb) of bytes on page load. While you recommend using smaller image sizes, it still worked well on a 1920 x 1080 image and only took ~10 minutes to run in the background with n = 2500. I did add an additional step (as lots of extra triangles are generated with a large n like this), which is to put it through SVGOMG[1] to optimize out some of those extra bits. That cut the generated SVG image size about in half, which I think is an excellent amount of bytes saved for relatively little effort. You can see the result on my site linked in my profile, or compare the PNG and SVG files from the source on my GitHub in this commit[2]. [1]https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ [2]https://github.com/Adamantcheese/adamantcheese.github.io/commit/2c524895b47491e7fc8191df1bf98e3bf622f9de https://github.com/Adamantcheese/adamantcheese.github.io/com...
- contingencies 9y ago
  I suppose someone would write one eventually, but I don't really see the motivation to build or use libraries like SVGO for most use cases. If you GZIP compress an SVG to SVGZ then you are going to save way more bytes, and if you have a half-decent webserver and a browser this side of 1999 it should do that automatically - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression#Compression_scheme_negotiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression#Compression_s...

dmitriid 9y ago

Your twitter bot sometimes produces images that look like unintentional art. Awesome job!

fogleman 9y ago
Well, that's the idea!
- jrowley 9y ago
  Honestly your twitter bot (and some of the other art bots) may be the best content on twitter. I thought it was cool that I could interact with your bot. Great work!

baddox 9y ago

This looks great! I would definitely pay the $10 for an iOS version. I can see myself playing around with this on an iPad Pro for hours, especially with drawing mode.

xster 9y ago
Don't really know how it works, though I wonder if some of the filters in Prisma are implemented in similar ways.

quakeguy 9y ago

Well, this is awesome!

itronitron 9y ago

very cool, so much better than seeing images constructed from cat and dog faces

CamperBob2 9y ago

Very cool. Anything like this available for Windows?

Adamantcheese 9y ago
You can download Golang and run it yourself from the windows command line. To make it easy to use, open the command window from the location your "go get" downloads to (usually in your documents there's a folder called "go"), then instead of using "primitive <options>", use "go run main.go <options>. Works like a charm.

santaclaus 9y ago

Aren't you the guy who writes all the graphics stuff in Go too? How do you find time to do all this???

fogleman 9y ago
What do you do with all of your time? :)
- artificial 9y ago
  Why Hacker News of course! Thanks for sharing.

erikig 9y ago

I love this, for budding visual artists it is a great way to see how basic shapes and seemingly simple colors come together to create evocative images.

fogleman 9y ago
Thanks - this is my favorite aspect of it as well!

contingencies 9y ago

Cool software, thanks again, I used it for https://github.com/globalcitizen/svglover https://github.com/globalcitizen/svglover and https://github.com/globalcitizen/zomia https://github.com/globalcitizen/zomia

piyush_soni 9y ago

Slightly off topic, but for the first time I've seen a "lol" domain :). Did you not have any apprehensions using it, like people might not take the product seriously?

fogleman 9y ago
Kinda, but I figured it would stand out so I went for it.

nzjrs 9y ago

Awesome! Are you aware of ports to any other language?

ondras 9y ago
I have a JS "port" (not a 1:1 reimpl): https://github.com/ondras/primitive.js https://github.com/ondras/primitive.js
- homero 9y ago
  That's incredible

traverseda 9y ago

Hey, you're that guy who did "minecraft in 500 lines of python".

Adamantcheese 9y ago

I went ahead and used it yesterday to change the background image of my site to save a couple (426kb) of bytes on page load. While you recommend using smaller image sizes, it still worked well on a 1920 x 1080 image and only took ~10 minutes to run in the background with n = 2500. I did add an additional step (as lots of extra triangles are generated with a large n like this), which is to put it through SVGOMG[1] to optimize out some of those extra bits. That cut the generated SVG image size about in half, which I think is an excellent amount of bytes saved for relatively little effort. You can see the result on my site linked in my profile, or compare the PNG and SVG files from the source on my GitHub in this commit[2]. [1]https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ [2]https://github.com/Adamantcheese/adamantcheese.github.io/commit/2c524895b47491e7fc8191df1bf98e3bf622f9de https://github.com/Adamantcheese/adamantcheese.github.io/com...

contingencies 9y ago
I suppose someone would write one eventually, but I don't really see the motivation to build or use libraries like SVGO for most use cases. If you GZIP compress an SVG to SVGZ then you are going to save way more bytes, and if you have a half-decent webserver and a browser this side of 1999 it should do that automatically - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression#Compression_scheme_negotiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression#Compression_s...