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Ertdfgcvb
- throwaway167 3y agoWhat's it about?
- Propelloni 3y agoIt's a procedural graphics generator showing some text/ascii art and transforming it on the fly. The source says it is a showcase made by a swiss company.
- rpickering 3y agoIt's by the very excellent artist Andreas Gysin (sort of a portfolio site), he works with ASCII and procedural art. Have a look at the site without the URL parameter on it: https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/ https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/
- colesantiago 3y agoBe careful this site makes your computer fans scream and your devices run hot. I have no clue what this or why its needed is other than it (creatively?) drains my battery.
- cnity 3y agoAh, wait until you discover what video games do!
- colesantiago 3y agoThere is an expectation with video games. Users shouldn't expect a webpage or microsoft word to turn their computer into a helicopter.
- sph 3y agoA lot of complaining for a website you will have visited 5 seconds in your entire existence. Your computer is fine.
- curtisblaine 3y agoWait, can you turn your PC into an helicopter with a simple web page? Technology is amazing these days.
- b3lvedere 3y agoIt's a minor step since you already can download a car. Which you should not do of course :)
- curtisblaine 3y agoI wouldn't!
- kroltan 3y agoYes, but it requires support to WebHelices which is on the experimentation phases. There is a shim using WebWings 5.0 but it only works on Chrome Canary, because foxes have legs instead.
- rizky05 3y ago[dead]
- xorcist 3y agoA user with that expectation would make sure to turn off javascript. Which probably should have been the default in web browsers, but that particular ship sailed long ago.
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- EspressoGPT 3y agoBetter close the browser tab before your computer lifts off!
- sph 3y agoTry closing the tab. Fixes it. Nothing to worry about, your battery is fine.
- tomcam 3y agoI have a few fans but they seldom react with more than polite applause
- totetsu 3y agohttps://youtu.be/IOfs8U_3NQk?si=pGjtBf13F8_Bmy7A https://youtu.be/IOfs8U_3NQk?si=pGjtBf13F8_Bmy7A
- sznio 3y agomakes my PC go from 40W to 50W. not that bad. Facebook is way worse.
- noufalibrahim 3y agoReminds me of the BB demo from aalib.
- sandgiant 3y agoPretty cool! If you go to the index page it tells you what it is; a studio for design and code based in Switzerland. https://ertdfgcvb.xyz https://ertdfgcvb.xyz
- luispauloml 3y agoRemoving the "mode=screensaver" parameter from the URL: >ertdfgcvb >Studio for design and code based in Lugano, Switzerland. >Specialized in procedural graphic design for screen and print; research and development, prototyping and implementation of interactive installations for exhibitions, stages and events. And here is a link with some of their art: https://foundation.app/@ertdfgcvb https://foundation.app/@ertdfgcvb There are also some links in their homepage too. The I liked the most was: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz
- athenot 3y agoYes the play area has an interactive renderer and an editor, with lots of fun builtins that one can modify in real time. Very cool stuff! https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/sdf/balls https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/sdf/balls
- anta40 3y agoCool ASCI art-based design. Hmm... perhaps I'll take some ideas from it for my own website :D
- throwaway290 3y agoThey apparently sell NFTs by the "crypto art" link, I wonder if that's what their business model actually is...
- jokethrowaway 3y agoNFT art is great for doing the laundry Cool stuff regardless!
- throwaway290 3y agoAgree that stuff is cool. The playground is especially neat. It looks like ASCII shader kind of thing.
- theodric 3y agoAt first I was like "what is this gonna be, a Chinese company that sells unbranded electronics on Amazon?" But no, it's the Swiss.
- nerdbert 3y agoBrings me back to all the time (and paper) I wasted in the 1970s writing programs to do abstract ASCII art on line printers. Watching those patterns made me feel like a child again!
- xrd 3y agoFun fact: if you have gstreamer installed, you can use a pipeline like aasink to output any video as ascii-art. For example: gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! aasink
- enigmarc 3y agoIf you like animated ASCII art then I'm sure you'll like this: https://www.gifcii.fun https://www.gifcii.fun
- PyWoody 3y agohttps://ertdfgcvb.xyz/?mode=screensaver&color=true&word=ass https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/?mode=screensaver&color=true&word=ass
- athorax 3y agoits beautiful
- lowbloodsugar 3y agoLooks like ass to me.
- snarfed 3y agoThis has demo scene written all over it, in the best possible way.
- latchkey 3y agoDiscussions on similar submissions: ASCII Play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010217 (July 30, 2021 — 158 points, 20 comments)
- fb03 3y agoToo cool. Suddenly, I want to play nethack.
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- SpaceL10n 3y agoIf you see a bunch of random ascii characters jumping around on the screen, try adjusting your Browser zoom to zoom out a bit. On my 4k screen with Windows providing 300% UI Scaling, I had to zoom Chrome out to 33% to see the wavy ascii text art.
- jedberg 3y agoThis domain name looks like someone pressed their ubikey to pick the name.
- NobodyNada 3y agoI thought it looked like an x86 instruction mnemonic.
- stevage 3y agoThat's what I thought at first.
- abhv 3y agosuccessive keys on adjacent rows of your qwERTy keyboard
- mosburger 3y agoWelcome, to Ertdfgcvb. This is Ertdfgcvb. The unattainable is UNKNOWN at Ertdfgcvb! /me wonders if anyone still knows this reference
- swayvil 3y agoLush and deep. It's got scifi power.
- bjackman 3y agoThis reminds me a little of the 404 page I made back in university (except it actually looks nice!) http://yawn.io/404 http://yawn.io/404 Fun fact: it doesn't have a hard coded bitmap it renders in your system font onto a canvas and reads the pixels out and then converts to text.
- agys 3y agohttps://ertdfgcvb.xyz/404 https://ertdfgcvb.xyz/404
- saltyoutburst 3y agoIt's great to see simple non-productized playfulness on the internet again. All the fun experiments on https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ remind me of Yugo Nakamura's now-defunct site http://yugop.com/ http://yugop.com/ from back in the early 2000s. You can catch a little glimpse of his style with the bottom menu on https://web.archive.org/web/20040804050646/http://www.yugop.com/index.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20040804050646/http://www.yugop...., but unfortunately the main body of the site (which was the best bit) doesn't work anymore because it was built with Flash. Some of his current work with https://tha.jp/ https://tha.jp/ still has a great organic fun feel to it.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoIs what?
- mrb 3y agoIt saddens me that a browser consumes one and a half CPU cores to render a measly ~300x60 characters at 30 fps. Manipulating even just text in the DOM has so much overhead... That's on Linux with the latest stable Chrome on hardware less than 2 years old. Nonetheless, cool animation.
- CelticBard 3y agois the font iosevka? very cool