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Sort of similarly (sorry I don’t have a link handy but could find one tomorrow if anyone is interested), there was an interesting program someone posted in an A

Sort of similarly (sorry I don’t have a link handy but could find one tomorrow if anyone is interested), there was an interesting program someone posted in an AskHN post a year or two ago where the program took an input image, started with a blank circle that was made up of a configurable number of “pins” evenly spaced apart around the perimeter, and then starting from one “pin” iteratively found the next pin that, when connected with a line from the current pin, most made the generating image look more like the input image compared to the other possible lines, and then onto the next pin and the next until you had an image that roughly looked like the input image. The point of that original program was to figure out the best way to connect pins inserted around a circular frame with a single long thread and then weave the image with it. The original post had pictures in it of the guy’s finished artwork and everything. I don’t remember what language he wrote it in, but I converted it to a react app that handled everything client side using html canvas and bitmap images. Not to publish or anything, just for fun.

jimhi 2y ago
Please find! I’m looking for this now too
- gdhkgdhkvff 2y ago
  After much sleuthing, I finally found the original comment. It has a link to images of the built out project which is nice and in the replies the OP posts links to the GitHub gist. If any interest in my react version I can make that public too, just know it was quick and dirty but does work. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108
kuu 2y ago
With your description, ChatGPT tells me it may be this one: https://github.com/callummcdougall/computational-thread-art https://github.com/callummcdougall/computational-thread-art Is it? :)
- gdhkgdhkvff 2y ago
  It wasn’t but that is VERY similar haha. Wonder if this person had the same idea as I did. Namely “hey this idea is cool! I MUST build it myself to tinker with.” Lmao After much sleuthing, I finally found the original comment. It has a link to images of the built out project which is nice and in the replies the OP posts links to the GitHub gist. If any interest in my react version I can make that public too, just know it was quick and dirty but does work. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108

jimhi 2y ago

Please find! I’m looking for this now too

gdhkgdhkvff 2y ago
After much sleuthing, I finally found the original comment. It has a link to images of the built out project which is nice and in the replies the OP posts links to the GitHub gist. If any interest in my react version I can make that public too, just know it was quick and dirty but does work. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108

kuu 2y ago

With your description, ChatGPT tells me it may be this one: https://github.com/callummcdougall/computational-thread-art https://github.com/callummcdougall/computational-thread-art Is it? :)

gdhkgdhkvff 2y ago
It wasn’t but that is VERY similar haha. Wonder if this person had the same idea as I did. Namely “hey this idea is cool! I MUST build it myself to tinker with.” Lmao After much sleuthing, I finally found the original comment. It has a link to images of the built out project which is nice and in the replies the OP posts links to the GitHub gist. If any interest in my react version I can make that public too, just know it was quick and dirty but does work. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37036108