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Aurora

286 points by evo_9 4y ago

themodelplumber 4y ago
Lovely effect! I like that you can also draw fireworks, and the sheer number of settings beyond that is really neat. Nice job. My head has been in North American airspace today, so I admit I thought by the domain name that this might be a community effort to gather ideas of conceptual aircraft designs from a certain $9B secret project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)
eloiser 4y ago
This is lovely.
PixelForg 4y ago
It looks the best when I move the mouse slowly!
Janymos 4y ago
Exactly what I needed for a while!
SeanAnderson 4y ago
I feel like these little "safe, relaxing spaces" online are starting to become more of a trend? I know it's not exactly the same, but conceptually, https://viberooms.serenebase.com/ https://viberooms.serenebase.com/ this is something I have bookmarked as inspiration for some software I'm planning. My intent was to create a calming, safe space to check in and to use that space as a meditation and journaling area. Now I feel like I'm seeing these "serene for the sake of being serene, potentially with extra purpose tacked on" environments everywhere! Is it a bit of a trend or am I falling prey to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon once again? :) Anyway. Aurora is quite lovely. I wanted more from it, but was happy with what I got, too. The fireworks were especially nice. I wish it were easier to swap between controls so that I could fire a flurry of various colors of fireworks while the aurora was going.
- icoder 4y ago
  Personally I find the styling in the link you posted sub-par to be 'serene'. These are the first I noticed, for what my n=1 is worth. I think VR could (some day) work very well for this too. I like the idea of a virtual cabin on a snowy mountain to chill or explore from. Coding in VR doesn't seem to be really there yet but getting there. To work from home but virtually somewhere from a zenful space with magnificent view sounds interesting too.
- shriracha 4y ago
  Hi - DrawAurora creator here -- thank you for the kind words and good feedback! I'm not sure if this is what you were looking as far as easier swapping of controls, but I did add some keyboard shortcuts. You can check them out by hitting the ? on the bottom right.
  - SeanAnderson 4y ago
    Thanks :) Some thoughts: - I had to search fairly hard to find the ?. I did find it because I wanted to find it, but maybe have icons that haven't been touched one flash or something. - I wish the fireworks made a launching sound. There is no instantaneous feedback when I first press the button and it makes me feel like I am doing something wrong, but then, later, fireworks! - Not sure the right approach, but the animation loop is done with RAF and the music isn't paused when the tab becomes inactive. This means that when I come back, the music has been continually playing, but the aurora and fireworks were frozen and my immersion is damaged a bit. - I don't find the zoom action to be especially meaningful. - I would strongly prefer changing the color to only affect fireworks which have not yet launched rather than affecting those already shown. :) Cheers
andai 4y ago
This one sparks joy.
anubhavmishra 4y ago
This right here is a great project. Keep it up! Felt super relaxed after this.
samwillis 4y ago
I've this. It reminds me so much of the type of little experiments that people would create in Flash in the early 2000s. It's a real shame there isn't the equivalent combination of development/graphics/animation/distribution that flash allowed. The creativity it enabled was outstanding and so accessible to get started (pirated copies were so ubiquitous). It had such a shallow learning curve. I kind of long for a return of that type of tool.
- tantalor 4y ago
  Scratch is the next best thing, and you don't need special tools to use it.
makach 4y ago
Great great work! I can only imagine how much fun this must have been to make!
shriracha 4y ago
Hello -- creator of DrawAurora here! Thanks everyone for checking it out and for all the nice comments and feedback. Seeing this do well here was a really fun (and surprising) way to wake up this morning. Cheers!
- evo_9 4y ago
  It would be interesting to read what you used to create this, maybe you can write something up sometime and post it to HN? Great job, thanks for creating this!
Rutvik_Tak 4y ago
Nice one!
chirau 4y ago
What is this? I couldn't figure it out. Didn't work on mobile
- garciansmith 4y ago
  Worked for me on Firefox for Android.
henry700 4y ago
Cool, but terrifyingly bad FPS
mavhc 4y ago
Another moon only at night conspiracy website!
tonetheman 4y ago
I am not sure what this is exactly but it is nice and calming.

286 points by evo_9 4y ago

Lovely effect! I like that you can also draw fireworks, and the sheer number of settings beyond that is really neat. Nice job. My head has been in North American airspace today, so I admit I thought by the domain name that this might be a community effort to gather ideas of conceptual aircraft designs from a certain $9B secret project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)

eloiser 4y ago

This is lovely.

PixelForg 4y ago

It looks the best when I move the mouse slowly!

Janymos 4y ago

Exactly what I needed for a while!

SeanAnderson 4y ago

I feel like these little "safe, relaxing spaces" online are starting to become more of a trend? I know it's not exactly the same, but conceptually, https://viberooms.serenebase.com/ https://viberooms.serenebase.com/ this is something I have bookmarked as inspiration for some software I'm planning. My intent was to create a calming, safe space to check in and to use that space as a meditation and journaling area. Now I feel like I'm seeing these "serene for the sake of being serene, potentially with extra purpose tacked on" environments everywhere! Is it a bit of a trend or am I falling prey to the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon once again? :) Anyway. Aurora is quite lovely. I wanted more from it, but was happy with what I got, too. The fireworks were especially nice. I wish it were easier to swap between controls so that I could fire a flurry of various colors of fireworks while the aurora was going.

icoder 4y ago
Personally I find the styling in the link you posted sub-par to be 'serene'. These are the first I noticed, for what my n=1 is worth. I think VR could (some day) work very well for this too. I like the idea of a virtual cabin on a snowy mountain to chill or explore from. Coding in VR doesn't seem to be really there yet but getting there. To work from home but virtually somewhere from a zenful space with magnificent view sounds interesting too.
shriracha 4y ago
Hi - DrawAurora creator here -- thank you for the kind words and good feedback! I'm not sure if this is what you were looking as far as easier swapping of controls, but I did add some keyboard shortcuts. You can check them out by hitting the ? on the bottom right.
- SeanAnderson 4y ago
  Thanks :) Some thoughts: - I had to search fairly hard to find the ?. I did find it because I wanted to find it, but maybe have icons that haven't been touched one flash or something. - I wish the fireworks made a launching sound. There is no instantaneous feedback when I first press the button and it makes me feel like I am doing something wrong, but then, later, fireworks! - Not sure the right approach, but the animation loop is done with RAF and the music isn't paused when the tab becomes inactive. This means that when I come back, the music has been continually playing, but the aurora and fireworks were frozen and my immersion is damaged a bit. - I don't find the zoom action to be especially meaningful. - I would strongly prefer changing the color to only affect fireworks which have not yet launched rather than affecting those already shown. :) Cheers

andai 4y ago

This one sparks joy.

anubhavmishra 4y ago

This right here is a great project. Keep it up! Felt super relaxed after this.

samwillis 4y ago

I've this. It reminds me so much of the type of little experiments that people would create in Flash in the early 2000s. It's a real shame there isn't the equivalent combination of development/graphics/animation/distribution that flash allowed. The creativity it enabled was outstanding and so accessible to get started (pirated copies were so ubiquitous). It had such a shallow learning curve. I kind of long for a return of that type of tool.

tantalor 4y ago
Scratch is the next best thing, and you don't need special tools to use it.

makach 4y ago

Great great work! I can only imagine how much fun this must have been to make!

shriracha 4y ago

Hello -- creator of DrawAurora here! Thanks everyone for checking it out and for all the nice comments and feedback. Seeing this do well here was a really fun (and surprising) way to wake up this morning. Cheers!

evo_9 4y ago
It would be interesting to read what you used to create this, maybe you can write something up sometime and post it to HN? Great job, thanks for creating this!

Rutvik_Tak 4y ago

Nice one!

chirau 4y ago

What is this? I couldn't figure it out. Didn't work on mobile

garciansmith 4y ago
Worked for me on Firefox for Android.

henry700 4y ago

Cool, but terrifyingly bad FPS

mavhc 4y ago

Another moon only at night conspiracy website!

tonetheman 4y ago

I am not sure what this is exactly but it is nice and calming.