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Silk
- dang 7y agoOriginal Show HN from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2089615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2089615 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797236 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593507
- drcursor 7y agoVery similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17600629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17600629 (always makes me think of Deluxe Paint)
- envolt 7y agoI present to you, The Mortal Warrior - https://imgur.com/a/ucFexc8 https://imgur.com/a/ucFexc8
- yreg 7y agoI, for one, welcome our new overlords https://imgur.com/1pqfvOA https://imgur.com/1pqfvOA
- nerdponx 7y agoThese two reminded me of the UNITINU meme: https://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/002/423/UNITINU.jpg https://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/002/423/UN...
- tyree731 7y agoDefinitely Spark Man - https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Spark_Man_(Mega_Man) https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Spark_Man_(Mega_Man)
- arxpoetica 7y agoDragon: http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=vyx2p8443im http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=vyx2p8443im
- skilled 7y agoLove how smooth it is on mobile as well. Great project.
- Double_a_92 7y agoReminds of of Mr.doob's creations: https://mrdoob.com/#/120/harmony https://mrdoob.com/#/120/harmony
- rebuilder 7y agoKrita has incorporated precisely this toolset. It's one of those rare instances of what seems like a cheap gimmick actually being a great tool.
- brokenkebab 7y agoMost produced pictures look more like an X-ray of alien insectoids than silk.
- flixic 7y agoSilk inspired my Christmas Postcards project. It's now offline, but I have displayed best drawings on my site: https://lekevicius.com/projects/postcards/ https://lekevicius.com/projects/postcards/ At the time it was discussed quite a bit on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6966004
- dmix 7y ago> and have been developing a different online experiment each year until 2017. The 2013 experiment was by far the most successful. It allowed visitors to draw their own postcards with 6-axis symmetry, creating a snowflake-looking drawing almost no matter what was being drawn. Nice. What were the other experiments you tried doing besides snowflakes? Any reason they didn't work out?
- flixic 7y agoWent back to the archives to actually remind myself all the ideas. 2012 - Virtual snowy field to plant trees and post a wish on them. A couple hundred trees planted. 2013 - This one, drawing postcards. Thousands drawn. 2014 - Live streamed a Raspberry Pi printing wishes posted on the site. 8 wishes posted. Great ROI. 2015 - Creating animated swirling "stars" drawn using spirograph patterns. A couple hundred created, later adapted to my app Spiralflow: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spiralflow/id1086402345 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spiralflow/id1086402345 2016 - Cutting out snowflakes from paper. Less than a hundred made, experience of making them wasn't great. 2017 - skipped. Had an idea of making a Christmas-themed game similar to http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ but couldn't build it in time. 2018 - One last experiment: "baking" and decorating gingerbread cookies. A couple hundred made. That was it. I don't plan to build anything this year.
- luastoned 7y agoIt's odd that on Android you can play with it, whereas on iOS you are only prompted to download the 3,49€ app.
- lijogdfljk 7y agoThis is great! If I had a way of using it to create animations for my iOS lock screen I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
- oftenwrong 7y agoSilk: Interactive generative art
- loa_in_ 7y agoWould you consider adding multiple touch points? Why (not)?
- abhinuvpitale 7y agogood question, I am guessing keeping the symmetry fixed with multiple points and tracking them could make it messy, I guess
- yurivish 7y agoHi, the app does support up to 11 multiple touch points. I'm not sure if the API was around to implement it on the web at the time this website was made, or if it was I wasn't aware of it. Multitouch on the iPad works with both fingers and the pencil.
- smdz 7y agoWhenever I try something it looks like an X-ray image :|
- el_tone 7y agoInteractive gyneacological art.
- Fluid_Mechanics 7y agoI made a satanic pentagram :3
- earth2mars 7y agoI just created this and it turned out good. http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=yvy2p5dc8o7 http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=yvy2p5dc8o7
- andrelaszlo 7y agoI had a similar idea. I guess face shapes are natural given the vertical symmetry, and since the outcome is a bit random our bias towards seeing faces even in vaguely face-shaped patterns helps. http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=zmb2p5d9l1f http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=zmb2p5d9l1f
- chirau 7y agoumm, what is this? The randomness defeats the purpose, i think
- pfista 7y agoWow that's pretty cool. This was the first thing that came out: http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=drz2p5fz9r9 http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=drz2p5fz9r9
- garysahota93 7y agoI just spent 30 mins on this site... It's mesmerizing!
- 2038AD 7y agoI was still in school when I first found this :)
- ermir 7y agoI was just messing around with this and experimenting with the features, when a human shape slowly started coming out of my unconsciousness. At the end when I realized what was coming out, I strove to finish, and it turns out quite angelic. http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=dwz2p4vwngg&fbclid=IwAR3Z4W8YXbLdBzLTWFxq2Kpupwi2AMewpZBSYpQVhXXJGmvNoKuqDjqIC1Y http://r.weavesilk.com/?v=4&id=dwz2p4vwngg&fbclid=IwAR3Z4W8Y...
- ProAm 7y agoI found if you pressed and held the mouse in one spot often a human-like head would form. Really neat.
- godman_8 7y agoI remember seeing this and a ton of similar sites on StumbleUpon nearly a decade ago.