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Silk inspired my Christmas Postcards project. It's now offline, but I have displayed best drawings on my site: https://lekevicius.com/projects/postcards/ https

• 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 ago
    Went 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.