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Show HN: A live-drawn portrait of the common face
- sloev 7y agoAuthor here. A python program continously draws 22 different faces over each other. All faces are aligned at the eyes. The drawing particles have three different behaviors: 1. Move randomly 2. Move randomly with 45 degree angles 3. Move randomly but attracted to the firstborn particle and afraid of being near the average position of all particles. Go to https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/static/images/debug.jpg https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/static/images/debug.jpg for a picture of the particles in action Sourcecode available at http://github.com/sloev/face_experiments http://github.com/sloev/face_experiments
- sloev 7y agoThe image on the site is refreshed every 5 seconds. Changes are minuscule it does 1000 pixel changes a minute currently. Particles move at 1 pixel speed with an angle based on their behavior
- Exuma 7y agoDoes the image move in real time or is that my imagination
- sloev 7y agoIt moves in real time. It is drawn continously by phthon software. Visit the mentioned https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/static/images/debug.jpg https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/static/images/debug.jpg url for a snapshot of how the particle workers are currently moving around
- adyer07 7y agoThe ghostly quality of the particle drawing is really nice. I love how it gets the overlaid effect across but in a nicer way than simple transparency. How are the particles attracted to the areas of the image that need to be darker?
- sloev 7y agoThey are unaware of the underlying image they draw. Each particle is associated a random picture to draw at birth and continous to draw until death. Draw means copy a pixel from the source image to the displayed output image. Each particle class is defined with a color in the debug.jpg image
- romaebau 7y agoIt's really amazing, but the result is a bit spooky. Still, pretty awesome.
- sloev 7y agoYeah very unnerving. It is also nearly as hairy as i am hahaha (long haired danish dude here)