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Show HN: My useless but fun laser eyes web app
- kilian 16y agoBackground here: http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/web/laserey-es-draw-lasers-from-your-eyes/ http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/web/laserey-es-draw-lasers-fro... Basically, it's a fun little project for me to try out a whole bunch of new stuff, including the file API, the drag-and-drop-api, openCV and Canvas. It works best in Firefox, and otherwise in chrome (though performance on mac is abysmally slow) Let me know what you think, and please set a laserified photo as your Facebook profile picture :)
- kunley 16y agoAwesome!! Guys you could implement a GET method with an argument being image to be retrieved so people could email just link to their relatives, bosses and employees, not having a burden of retrieving this pic first. Stuff like bad link, wrong content type or picture too big could be simply rejected.
- kilian 16y agoI like this idea, I'll see what I can do :)
- nyellin 16y agoWhat was your experience with ep.io? Would you use them for a more serious web application?
- kilian 16y agoIt's obviously still beta, functionality is still missing and updating an app gives problems (it takes a while and your site is offline for a bit). The guys are super helpful though, and it's very stable and fast. So yes, I would recommend it!
- mrphoebs 16y agoCool, just tested with an image of superman.(redundant?)
- phatbyte 16y agoAt first like I was like "what the..", but then I was "whoo hoo, my eyez haz lazer" :P
- fookyong 16y agothis is great! mine is my new facebook profile photo :) I smell a viral hit... updated: also, definitely make an iphone app for this!
- kilian 16y agoI hope so! Thanks for promoting it on twitter by the way :)
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- guynamedloren 16y agoVery, very cool! Here's the viral touch you're missing: a gallery, or at least photo sharing. When I hit the tweet button at the bottom, it should allow others to see the photo I just laser-eyesed (laserized, ha, get it?) and encourage to laser-eyes one of their own. Let's see it happen :)
- kilian 16y agoI initially offloaded all the image saving to Facebook, but (private) photo sharing would be a good idea, yeah. I'll see what I can do, thanks for the kind words :)
- GBKS 16y agoSounds like you are hesitant to make a public photo gallery. I'd recommend building one though. From my experience with cornify.com, having a public gallery really activates people - way better social proof than just the Facebook/Twitter share numbers. When somebody saves an image, I'd ask "Can we show this to other people?"
- kno 16y agoHow about IE7 :(
- GBKS 16y agoYou mean something is not working on Cornify on IE7? Just tested and all seems good. Would be great if you could let me know what's not working. Thanks.
- kilian 16y agoI'm indeed hesitant about it (never done it before) but thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it and will definitely take a shot at it.
- alienreborn 16y agoFun app, thanks! :) but for some reason when I tried to save the image, it crashed my chrome and the second time I am able to save it but still it slowed down chrome.
- lurchpop 16y agohaha cool! I love it. Hey, i didn't notice the Facebook connect thing. You should center it above the pic. Also, you could load the profile pic by default to save the user a step. It would be cool to allow me to pick from a list of my friends and give'em laserey.es. ...and throw an ad on there, dude!!
- kilian 16y agoNo ads! Haha. Not in it for the money ;) A list of friends would be cool, but it's hard to get them via the Facebook api (Just getting a full size facebook image is hard: http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/javascript/full-size-profile-picture-via-the-facebook-javascript-sdk/ http://kilianvalkhof.com/2011/javascript/full-size-profile-p... )
- Vivtek 16y agoPost some ads, dude - in it for the money or not, you'll make us all cry otherwise.
- tom_ilsinszki 16y agoMy 2 cents... I'd put the "Login with facebook to post pictures to Facebook!" box under or next to the picture. Also keeping it hidden and making it appear after the laser has been placed, might also be a good idea.
- jbpr 16y agoI love it. Could we have the ability to pick where the eyes are if the app doesn't find them automagically?
- kilian 16y agoI'll implement this soon!
- andrewnez 16y agoUsing safari 5 it says "INSUFFICIENT TECHNOLOGY. USE ANOTHER BROWSER" but didn't tell me which browsers are supported, which was confusing, what tech is safari missing?
- kilian 16y agoThe drag and drop api and the filereader api (nightlies are supported). I'll update the message with supported browsers, and I'll be implementing an old-style file uploader soon to support Safari and Opera.
- fezzl 16y agoI would suggest allowing different colors for the laser.
- kilian 16y agoGoing to implement that next, yeah :)
- zalew 16y agoawesome! :D I must say the same as I did on another project here today - it needs linking to the result. then it'll spread viral (I will share for sure :D)
- nedwin 16y agoThis is awesome. Also added it to my Facebook + Twitter profile. Would be great to have nice some kind of easy file sharing.
- nedwin 16y ago11 comments in 20 minutes across Facebook and Twitter. Pretty good given it's nearly midnight here.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoQuick, add floating hearts to the laser beams for Valentine's Day! There's your one day virality boost.
- nedwin 16y agoA friend just pointed me to this somewhat related project: http://www.lazertits.com/ http://www.lazertits.com/
- nyellin 16y agoHow are you doing eye detection? Edit: I asked the same question on Twitter. Kilian response is below: "Python-opencv and HAAR cascades, first I detect faces, then I detect eyes. :)" (http://twitter.com/?status=@kilianvalkhof%20&in_reply_to_status_id=37139698971316224&in_reply_to=kilianvalkhof#!/kilianvalkhof/status/37139698971316224 http://twitter.com/?status=@kilianvalkhof%20&in_reply_to...)
- antihero 16y agoThank you sir, for creating this exciting new way to view my pornography collection.
- Nack 16y agoHere's a great test image: http://i.imgur.com/biW6Z.jpg http://i.imgur.com/biW6Z.jpg
- Vivtek 16y agoFor some reason, it doesn't seem to like anything I give it (Chrome and Firefox both). I finally got to see it with the imgur pic posted below.
- boredguy8 16y agoDoesn't work for me. Uploading a 124kb .jpg of someone looking at the camera with a fairly boring background. It starts "searching for laser mounting points", gets about 1/8th of the way down the image, and hangs.
- true_religion 16y agoDoesn't work on anyone with dark skin.... but then I didn't expect it to since all of the out of the box OpenCV algorithms have the same problem.